abstract:The House of Silk is a Sherlock Holmes novel written by British author Anthony Horowitz, published on 1 November 2011 in the United States and Europe. It marks the first time that the Conan Doyle Estate has authorised a new Sherlock Holmes pastiche, though that was disputed by Leslie S.
No matter how devious the mystery, and violent the detail, no alert reader of"The HouseofSilk" will be able to spend more than a half-dozen pages in its company without wanting to laugh.
On the other hand, it is this resolute over-egging ofthe pudding that gives "The HouseofSilk" its charm: a kind of constant creative exuberance, born of a suspicion that unless every single element ofthe Holmes legend can be brought to the feast, the story is bound to fall flat.