Tag: Gareth Armstrong

Holmes and Moriarty

by Derelict Space Sheep on October 28, 2024 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Holmes and Moriarty

by Gareth Rubin (Simon & Schuster, 2024)

audiobook read by Michael Fenner & Gareth Armstrong (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024)

The Holmes/Watson characterisation feels right, and Moriarty/Moran emerge as an equally absorbing duo (Watson and Moran alternating their first-person accounts), yet the titular conflux amounts to little. The plot devolves into explicated mystery where neither Holmes nor Moriarty (nor Mycroft) contribute much.

Pietr the Latvian

by Derelict Space Sheep on June 22, 2022 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

Pietr the Latvian

by Georges Simenon (A. Fayard, 1931); audiobook read by Gareth Armstrong (Bolinda, 2015); trans. David Bellos.

Inspector Maigret makes his presence felt throughout this first novel, establishing the physically imposing, somewhat misanthropic character who would feature in seventy-five books. His investigation, however, rattles along like an out-of-control train, the reader trapped inside and kept largely in the dark.