false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173223970m/260816.jpg 16696 13 <p>Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than with his fellow man. Into his life wanders Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his sole companion: an African gray parrot.</p> <p>What is the meaning of the mysterious strings of German numbers the bird spews out -- a top-secret SS code? The keys to a series of Swiss bank accounts? Or do they hold a significance both more prosaic and far more sinister?</p> <p>Though the solution may be beyond even the reach of the once-famous sleuth, the true story of the boy and his parrot is subtly revealed in a wrenching resolution.</p> 818664 2003 The Final Solution: A Story of Detection (P.S.) total:3539|5:276|4:1023|3:1536|2:611|1:93| 3539 11395 4561 456 3 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 09:56:44 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 09:57:30 -0700 2008 The Final Solution by literary wunde...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 18:51:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 18:52:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 10:09:21 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 09:05:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Apr 14 11:58:54 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 14 12:05:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Mar 06 21:05:44 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 21:10:18 -0800 2008
The idea of a Dark Knight Returns style Holmes is a good one, as is the idea of using him as a metaphor for the more "civilized" Victorian World's incomprehension of the evils o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 27 15:01:51 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 15:07:09 -0800 2008 City of Glass does it better, and The Name of the Ro...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 09:51:32 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 10:39:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:30:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:30:03 -0800 2009 From his editorship of an issue of McSweeney's to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Chabon has mined genre fiction and pop culture in pursuit of literary gold. His newest novella finds him polishing up the detective story as an unnamed Sherlock Holmes comes out of b...

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Sherlock Holmes is retired, now 89 years old, keeping bees--and a little nine-year old German boy enters ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 12 00:30:29 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 10:43:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 12:38:45 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 11:53:19 -0700 2009 1 It seemed probable to him that in any given grouping of an African grey parrot - a notriously prolix species - and a boy of nine or ten, at any given moment, one or the other of them ought to be talking. (8)

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Holmes x curmudgeon + pirates a la parrots = happy.

the longer version

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