I liked "A Study in Emerald." The gotcha! worked 100% (probably because I was listening to it on audiobook and I didn't catch the actor's name was Vernet). But the first thought I had when I finished reading it was 'Oh, it's fic.' That's all it is. Very, very good fic, but just fic. And it won an award!
And Neil Gaiman (as far as I know, Good Omens and ASiE is all I've read) never put a writer named Neil Gaiman living next door to 221B Baker Street then go on and on and on for an entire chapter about meeting Sir Elton John the Old One or the Victorian equivalent or something. And that's what Horowitz does. I mean, it's a self-insert dick-stroking along with a corkin' good murder mystery. It's just a pity you have to swallow the first in order to get the second.
And yeah, there is that tweet in defense of fic by Gaiman, so as far as I know he's not a dick about it.
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And Neil Gaiman (as far as I know, Good Omens and ASiE is all I've read) never put a writer named Neil Gaiman living next door to 221B Baker Street then go on and on and on for an entire chapter about meeting Sir Elton John the Old One or the Victorian equivalent or something. And that's what Horowitz does. I mean, it's a self-insert dick-stroking along with a corkin' good murder mystery. It's just a pity you have to swallow the first in order to get the second.
And yeah, there is that tweet in defense of fic by Gaiman, so as far as I know he's not a dick about it.