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The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson, M.D. (The Journals of John H. Watson, M.D., 3) Paperback – March 17, 1995

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Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. John Watson, the biographer of Sherlock Holmes, reveals for the first time a hitherto unknown episode in the life of the Great Detective.

The year is 1891, Paris is the capital of the western world, and its opera house is full of surprises. First and by no means least is the sudden reappearance of the great love of Holmes's life, an accomplished singer from Hoboken, New Jersey. Second is the series of seemingly bizarre accidents―each more sinister than the last―allegedly arranged by the "Opera Ghost," an opponent who goes by many names and is more than equal to Holmes. Alone in a strange and spectacular city, with none of his normal resources, Holmes is commissioned to protect a vulnerable young soprano, whose beautiful voice obsesses a creature no one believes is real, but whose jealousy is lethal.

In this dazzling sequel to The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, the detective pits wits against a musical maniac, and we are treated to an adventure unlike any other in the archives of Sherlock Holmes.

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    The Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
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  5. Publication date
    March 17, 1995
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    5.5 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
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    0393312410
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0393312416
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Meyer's third novel based on Sherlock Holmes finds the celebrated sleuth entangled in mysterious events involving the Phantom of the Opera.
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"[A]depts and novices alike will relish the author's adroit mimicry of the narrative conventions of Victorian melodrama and his eye for period detail&38230;Lively and entertaining."
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"Good, clean fun."
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"First-rate action scenes…canny suspense-building."
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (March 17, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393312410
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393312416
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.3 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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phillip l counts
5.0 out of 5 stars just great
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2023
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love the take on this story
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John Foster
4.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as 7 per cent.
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The Seven Percent Solution was a brilliant and innovative look at Holmes that explained a number of things in the canon. Putting Holmes in every other mystery of the era just doesn't have the impact.
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Jerry Reynolds
5.0 out of 5 stars I totally enjoyed reading this book!
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So well written, so well told. I love the story of the Phantom of the Opera. Meyer has interjected Sherlock Holmes into the world of the Paris Opera and given it a completely different and totally believable telling. I loved it!
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New Legend Mike
3.0 out of 5 stars Sherlock Holmes Meets the Phantom
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Solid well-told meeting of Sherlock Holmes and the Phantom of the Opera. Nicholas Meyer smoothly inserts the great detective in to Gaston Leroux’s original story. However, there’s not a lot gained by adding Holmes to the story, his POV seems almost redundant. Though I enjoyed this novel, I much prefer Meyer’s first two Sherlock stories.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Meyer Out-Doyles Doyle!
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"The Canary Trainer" is more exciting and action-packed than anything in the Canon.
Holmes, as always, uses his deductive skills to great advantage. Instead of reciting a list of observations about the people he meets (which I have always suspected he did primarily to impress Watson), he gets the job done -- seemingly by fits and starts, yet more efficiently than anyone else could.
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jane
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting background story about the wonderful Broadway plan
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2018
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Interesting background story about the wonderful Broadway plan, The Phantom of The Opera. My Book Club will be discussing The Canary trainer at o ur meeting this money. All members found the book to be quite fascinating.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sherlock Holmes meets the Phantom of the Opera
Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2015
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This book is a sequel to THE SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION where Freud helped Holmes overcome his cocaine addiction.
The world now believes that Holmes is dead and this is the beginning of the Great Hiatus when he traveled the world incognito.
Watson asks Holmes to recount some of these adventures since he was not present with his friend during that time, and in this story Holmes narrates what transpired at the Paris Opera when he was employed as a violinist in the orchestra.

There are strange 'ghostly' happenings, some murders and a kidnapping that finally forces Holmes into the perilous subterranean parts of the opera house to confront the Phantom. Meyer tells a good story.

The Kindle book is well done but there is this error:
'My opponent fought with the savagery often men, and when I endeavored...'
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katina
5.0 out of 5 stars Sherlock and the Phantom of the Opera
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016
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I am only sorry that this is the last of the 3 Sherlock books Nicholas Meyer's wrote. I felt that he wrote very much in the spirit of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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