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Advantages: Holmes and Watson, plus classic illustrations Disadvantages: I detect none
The first Sherlock Holmes book I ever read was given to me as a gift for my thirteenth birthday. It was a collection of the short stories, with a wonderful leather trim and gold leafing, and I thought it was fantastic. I read the first story, and was instantly hooked. Within a few days, I was disappointed with my wonderful new book because it was incomplete. I had devoured all of the selected stories, and was ready for more.
Shortly thereafter, I purchased what purported to be the 'only complete Sherlock Holmes available', compiled by Christopher Morley. This became my favourite book. But, alas, neither of these volumes was illustrated.
The original stories, which appeared in 'The Strand' magazine, were illustrated, by the great illustrator Sidney Paget. Actually, careful research (which Holmes himself would insist upon) will ...
Advantages: Fast paced and well structured Disadvantages: Not as funny as some of his other work
characters that have a more than passing resemblance to those in real life is a feature of this book, in fact Elton covers this by mentioning the similarities himself. In Peter Paget the crusading MP whose Private Members Bill brings the issue of legalisation into the public domain you have a number of similarities to the disgraced former MP Jonathon Aitkin and Emily the posh IT girlfriend of Tommy could be anyone of the Tara Palmer long posh name bird or Kate Moss crowd. There are other characters featured, Jessie the teenage runaway who is hooked on heroin working for a pimp, Sonia who is in a Bangkok prison on drug smuggling charges and police Commander Lehman an out spoken supporter of Paget and intent on investigating police corruption.
In typical Elton style this is a fast paced story and is certainly worth reading, the action flickers ...
Advantages: Clever use of Characters, Layout, local dialects Disadvantages: You may not agree with the content, dialects!
the ups and downs of celebrity and how his alcoholism and drug use landed him in the meetings he attends.
Next we have Peter Paget, an ambitious Labour back bencher, happily married with two kids in an upmarket area of the country. Paget has a radical stance on the war against drugs where he wants to legalise the whole lot but has no luck getting any backing in this until he is given the opportunity to introduce a private members bill to parliament. He takes this as the chance to put his point across however the day it is announced two children die from accidentally swallowing ecstasy tablets and he has to defend himself to the hilt. He does get the support of someone very high up in the Police force and events happen that turns his private members bill into front page news and he gradually gets the support of the nation.
Jessie is ...
