Book Rec of the Day 1/19/2007

What is it about Sherlock Holmes? A century after his demise he continues to delight readers. Now two masters of fiction take on the master detective. Military historian Carr (The Alienist; Bantam, 1995) and Pulitzer Prize-winner Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay; Picador, 2001), bestsellers both, offer lively reimaginings of Holmes at work. Carr’s has a whiff of the supernatural; Chabon pulls Holmes out of retirement to locate a lost parrot.

	THE ITALIAN SECRETARY: A FURTHER ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, by Caleb Carr (Carroll & Graf, 2005)
	THE FINAL SOLUTION: A STORY OF DETECTION, by Michael Chabon (Fourth Estate, 2004)