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April 2016 1 WHODUNIT? called “pastiche,” and for better or worse, I have between original and copy. Why do authors spent a lot of time this year thinking about and write pastiche? The most obvious answer is lack playing with the concept, especially since we of originality, although I suspect that this answer decided to do a series of Book Club evenings explains very few of what is produced. More featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson important is commercial viability. Pastiche pastiches. When I actually focused on the enables an author to tie his or her work to a technique, I was more than a bit surprised to known product with a known record in the realize how limited it was in practice. In the first bookshops. In a few cases, the success of the place, one can really only imitate an author who imitation generates its own popularity. This was is super well-known. Who beyond Sherlock? The clearly the case with the Mary Russell series. first author I thought of was Agatha Christie. Some authors are attracted by the challenge of Partly because of the second consideration: the successful imitation. need to find sufficiently well-known literary characteristics to imitate. When I considered Curiously enough, the easiest strategy of this factor, it suddenly became clear to me why pastiche to adopt is also the hardest to bring off Holmes was such a popular target for pastiche well. It involves an authentic replication of the and why relatively few others could qualify. original style and of the author. If Conan Doyle is Hercule Poirot could certainly be imitated, the target, this usually means writing in the because of his appearance and because of his voice of Dr. Watson, harder to do well than you distinctive phrases, such as “the little grey cells.” might think – just try it! Many of those who go But who else? Miss Marple? Probably. Father this route actually create a complex story about Brown? The Saint? Perry Mason? James Bond? a lost manuscript recently unearthed, and they Nero Wolfe? Peter Wimsey? Make your own list. set their work within the timeframe and space It will not be very long, and would probably not (London) of Holmes’s glory years. The problem include many recent authors. At this point I is that there are only so many plots, and Conan suddenly began to appreciate durable Doyle has already cherry picked most of the best popularity. The pioneers of crime fiction who ones. The result is a product which often seems have survived the years are mainly those who stale, at least to the reader of the Doyle created larger-than-life characters. Such originals. But we must always remember that creations are no longer fashionable. Lisbeth not every consumer of pastiche is necessarily Salander is one of the few contemporaries who familiar with the original. comes immediately to mind. Who else? One wonders. A point worth emphasizing is that As my comments about film suggest, there literary pastiche is not confined to books; film are many ways of doing pastiche, some sticking and television rely heavily on literature for their closer to the original than others. One popular material, and are currently the sources of some strategy is to hijack one of the Holmes of the best pastiche – Holmes has two television characters and turn him/her/them into the series currently going, neither one of which major protagonist(s). As I have noted elsewhere started in print. Both series move Holmes into in this newsletter, every continuing character in the 21st century. Recent films have reversed the the Conan Doyle canon – even the urchins of the Holmes/Watson relationship and looked into Baker Street Irregulars now has his or her or the early life of Holmes. their own series. Indeed, one of the most appealing recent series takes nothing from the What exactly is literary pastiche? Simply put, Holmes canon but the address – 221B Baker it is imitation. In practice, however, imitation Street – at which Holmes and Watson are covers a multitude of sins and a variety of supposed to have resided. Two attorney strategies not all of which involve a straight line brothers rent the premises in modern times;

WHODUNIT? 2 April 2016 their lease includes a stipulation that they our store turned up Gavin Scott’s The Age of answer any mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. Treason, billed by its publisher as the first in a Since any such mail is bound to involve some “brand new post-war mystery series”. The kind of crime puzzle, the author has a wonderful author is a Brit who has honed his skills in lead-in into a fresh story. (Author of this series is Hollywood writing for commercial television; Michael Robertson; we have most of the titles in this is his first novel, and I found it impossible to stock) put down. It is a combination of mystery and spy novel, with a bit of romance thrown in for good Complicating the whole business of pastiche measure. The author has done his research, and is the recent emergence of authorized pastiche, I found the section set in Berlin immediately as literary estates seek to squeeze the last bit of after the war easily the best part of the book. In revenue out of their literary property. The heirs any event, I think our customers will really enjoy of Steig Larsson—his family, not the common this book, and will clamour for the promised law companion, who according to Swedish law sequel. (The Age of Treachery, on sale April 19th, had no rights of inheritance – authorized a Tp$19.50) Salander sequel, which appeared in 2015. Fortunately, the new author, David Lagercrantz, One more spy book while we are at it. This one had the good sense to do the new volume as a is Real Tigers, by Mick Herron, number three in pastiche, essentially filling in details in the his series set in Slough House, the dilapidated original three books. It got reasonably good building in London where MI5 buries its screw- reviews. (The Girl in the Spider’s Web will be ups. This time one of their number is kidnapped; available in tradepaper at the end of April, the kidnapper wants information as ransom. ($22)) The Christie estate authorized a fairly The story gets beautifully complicated. Most well-known crime fiction novelist, Sophie readers like this series a lot. (Available in hard Hannah, to continue the adventures of Hercule cover $26.95, no date for paper version yet.) Poirot. Hannah took a different approach than Lagercrantz, essentially dumping the Belgian detective, full formed, into the middle of one of REVIEW: The Courier by Gerald Brandt – her own stories. (The Monogram Murders, in reviewed by Michael stock (tp$18.99. The result little resembled We are always interested in the publications of Agatha Christie, and the critics were not at all new Winnipeg authors. Of especial interest, of impressed. Hannah’s effort may not have been course are those that would fit into the sufficiently pastiche-like. In fairness, it is hard to mystery/thriller genre. Gerald Brandt’s debut know how to write another author’s sequel. novel, The Courier, was released in March, and covers a lot more genres than just thriller, being It seems unlikely to me that much more can a cyberpunk/espionage/quasi young-adult novel be done with Sherlockian pastiche, but then, about a teenage woman caught up in a larger you never can tell. conspiracy.

REVIEW: The Age of Treachery by Gavin Brandt has created a dynamic world, where Scott and Real Tigers by Mick Herron – corporations rule a dying planet from satellites, reviewed by Jack while cities are built in classist layers down As those who know me well are aware, I am below. Power plays, corporate espionage and fond of well-crafted spy novels, and prefer those reliance on non-planetary resources make for a set in the immediately post-war Cold War complex web of overlapping dead-drops, false period. A recent lucky dip in the pile of “arcs” flags, and other elements of the spy game. (advance reader’s copies) that is constantly in

April 2016 3 WHODUNIT? Brandt has spread the umbrella of his creation None, will air on CBC on Monday, April 4th. N or wide by making a number of interesting choices. M, which is part of the Tommy and Tuppence The perspective switches regularly between the series, has also been made into a TV movie. protagonist, Kris, and the agents seeking to Both these titles have been issued with TV tie-in protect or capture her, for example. What is covers and we have them in stock, but we also notable about this shift is that it does so from have used copies of earlier editions. first person, in the case of Kris, to third person, in the case of everyone else. This gives a mix of Joanne Fluke’s A Plum Pudding Murder and limited perspective and omniscient narration Peach Cobbler Murder were shown on Hallmark that creates some dramatic irony and earlier this year, a channel we do not get. I did foreshadowing, while at the same time see The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder which generating suspense through the narrow lens of was released in 2015 on W fairly recently. I the protagonist. It does however, make for a thought that it was very well done so I am chink narrative. hoping to catch up with the others. Joanne Fluke’s 19th, Hannah Swensen mystery, And while I concede that I am not necessarily Wedding Cake Murder, is in stock (hardcover, the target audience for the damaged female $28.95). teen fighting the larger universe novel, I have to say that I am curious as to what Brandt will do Kate Collins ‘Flower Shop Mysteries’ are also next. The world he has built is worth visiting, being made into TV movies. Brooke Shields plays even if the protagonist may not be. This novel the part of Abby Knight, in Mum’s the Word. The has proven that Brandt is capable of writing in a newest Kate Collins, Moss Hysteria, will be in wide-range of styles, and I look forward to him the store in early April (mass market, $10.49). refining his voice and hopefully, creating stories in this world that are not limited by such a wide WHAT I’M READING by Sian umbrella. I have found, I think, my book of the year and I’m going to tell you about it now because if I MYSTERIES ON TV by Wendy have to wait until December I may burst. I was Masterpiece Mystery disappointed four years ago when Sarah Zettel On Sunday, March 26th the second series of stopped writing her ‘Vampire Chef’ series, but Grantchester will begin. There will be six over time stopped reading as much paranormal episodes. The fifth book in the Grantchester and urban fantasy. Imagine my surprise and series, Sidney Chambers and the Dangers of delight when Zettel returned to my notice under Temptation, is being published in June (trade the pseudonym Darcie Wilde with a new series paper, $22). set in 19th century London. A Useful Woman stars Rosalind Thorne, a woman who has had to On Sunday, May 8th the last series based on use her wits to keep her head high in polite Henning Mankell’s character, Kurt Wallander, society. When an aristocrat is murdered, she will begin. Wallander: The Final Season will must help solve his murder to keep in the good include material from the last Wallander novel, graces of those who support her. Rosalind is a The Troubled Man. Mankell’s autobiography, well-drawn character, not your average young Quicksand, was published in the UK this past heiress, and while there is a romantic subplot, it February. No date yet on a North American doesn’t drive the story. I’m anxious to read edition. more in the series. The bad news is you’ll have to wait until May 3rd to read it, the good news Other programmes though is that A Useful Woman is being released Part II of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were in trade paperback at $20, a price point at which

WHODUNIT? 4 April 2016 I wish more new series were launched. and the group will reconvene on Tuesday, September 27th. Speaking of great books I got to read first, I have only excellent things to say about Burned by Benedict Jacka, #7 in his ‘Alex Verus’ series. FORTHCOMING BOOKS That said, I don’t want to say much for fear of April Mass Markets giving anything away. This is the point in a series Adams, Ellery - Breach of Crust at which things can start to go off the rails or Albert, Susan Wittig - Bittersweet you lose interest. Not so with Burned. Jacka has Black, Cara - Murder in the Marais (Re-issue) you hanging on every word and cursing his Brown, Duffy - Braking for Bodies name when you realize you have to wait until Brown, Rita Mae - Tail Gait book #8 which doesn’t even have a publication Burdette, Lucy - Killer Takeout date yet… Cantrell, Janet - Fat Cat Takes the Cake Casey, Elizabeth Lynn - Needle and Dread And speaking of cliff-hangers, I’m already Collins, Kate - Moss Hysteria anxious about the upcoming release of The Cornwell, Bernard – Warriors of the Storm Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King, #14 in Eastman, Dawn – An Unhappy Medium her ‘Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes’ series. Evanovich, Janet – Wicked Charms Dreaming Spies was my book of 2015, which Flower, Amanda - Crime and Poetry had been a relief because the series sagged a bit Fluke, Joanne - Eyes around The Pirate King and (less so) Garment of Furlong, Susan - Rest in Peach Shadows. Is this truly the end of Ms. Russell? Gates, Eva - Reading Up a Storm We’ll find out (you and me both) on April 5th. Gerritsen, Tess - Vanish (Re-issue) Jacka, Benedict - Burned UPCOMING EVENTS AT WHODUNIT? Maxwell, Edith - Farmed and Dangerous Mystery Reading Club Mchugh, Mary - Bossa Novas, Bikini The theme for spring will be Havana. Mckinlay, Jenn - Vanilla Beaned Patterson, James - 14th Deadly Sin Tuesday, April 26th – Philip Kerr, If the Dead Rise Sandford, John - Gathering Prey Not Slaughter, Karin - Pretty Girls Tuesday, May 31st – Martin Cruz Smith, Havana Slaughter, Karin - Unseen Bay Smith, Karen Rose - Silence of the Lamp Tuesday, June 28th – Peggy Blair, The Beggar’s Smith, Wilbur – The Golden Lion Opera Stevens, Chevy - Always Watching Walker, Martin – The Children Return I know that some non-members of the group do Woods, Stuart - Naked Greed read the assigned titles. If you would like to have the questions that Jack writes, please let April Trade Paperback me know and I will email them to you or you can Atherton, Nancy - Aunt Dimity and the Summer ask me for a copy when you are in the store. King Barber, Ross - Devotion The group meets on the last Tuesday of the Bebris, Carrie - Suspicion at Sanditon month. Books will be available for purchase at Bolton, Sharon - Little Black Lies the store and feature a 10% discount. Questions Burton, Miles – Death in the Tunnel for discussion will be available a few weeks Corby, Gary - Death Ex Machina before the meeting. The last meeting of the Faye, Lyndsay – The Fatal Flame spring/summer will be on Tuesday, June 28th Fitzgerald, Helen - Viral

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