The Seven-Percent Solution

This Sherlock Holmes pastiche is mildly enjoyable, but I thought it was pretty thin in places. The premise of the story is that Holmes' cocaine addiction is spiraling out of control, so Dr. Watson and Mycroft Holmes cook up a scheme to get SH to Vienna and into the care of Dr. Sigmund Freud. I liked the explanation this story provides for SH's obsession with Professor Moriarty (he IS a villain, just a different type of villain than we've been led to believe). I even liked the meeting with Freud and the suggestion that the mystery Holmes is asked to look into as he is recovering from his cure has worldwide significance. However, that mystery turns out to be pretty lame, and the train chase that ends it was just boring. The good news is that it doesn't take long to read this book, and then you can move on to better ones.