Unexpected Holmes

However well written, even the best detective fiction has its limitations when compared with the best of sf. It becomes like a crossword puzzle when the detective explains how the crime was committed, what the clues were etc. Sf can incorporate detective fiction but not vice versa.

We recently acquired Colin Dexter's thirteen Inspector Morse novels and have now added Dexter's single collection which contains six Morse stories and five others including (I now discover) one about Sherlock and Mycroft narrated by Watson! Unexpected. And a very tenuous connection to Poul Anderson: not only howling wind and beating rain and detective fiction but also, more specifically, an appearance by Sherlock Holmes.

Sheila is at one of her choirs and I am about to go to Zen.