The Adventure of the Sealed Room

by Andy Weir

Holmesian fanfiction focusing on Professor Moriarty

Genres: Short Stories, Mystery, Crime, Fiction

14 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

ANDY WEIR built a career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, THE MARTIAN, allowed him to live out his dream of writing fulltime. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned spaceflight. He also mixes a mean cocktail. He lives in California. Andy’s next book, ARTEMIS, is available now.

Reviews

[Anjan Das · Rating 4 out of 5]

হোমসকে নিয়ে অনেক ফ্যান ফিকশন পড়লেও মরিয়ার্টিকে নিয়ে এই প্রথম একটা ফ্যান ফিকশন পড়লাম।পড়ার পর দারুণ লেগেছে।এ যেন শার্লকের মুখোমুখি হওয়ার আগে মরিয়ার্টিকর প্রিক্যুয়েল!মুগ্ধ হয়েছি পড়ে।
ছোট গল্পটা পড়েছি সেবার গল্প সংকলন " মৃত্যুনগরি" তে।

[Molly · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this short fanfic, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty has to prove his innocence in a murder case. The culprit wasn't that unexpected, but we have a cameo of young Inspector Lestrade (here still a constable) and a wink at a young chemical student who worked on the case (I guess young Holmes himself)...thus a higher rating.

[Mayank Agarwal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short 14-page fanfiction on James Moriarity. I liked it but not as much as the previous story. One could guess the ending, James Moriarty keeping up to his evil genius nature does a good job of deduction & convincing to get out of a tight spot. Although what I really enjoyed was the mention of a young chemistry student & constable Lestrade.

[Suhasa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bloody brilliant!

Me wants more!! Unfortunately Andy mentioned in his site that he's not sure he'll continue and this was about a decade ago. So we'll have to be satisfied with the clever ending in this one.

P.S: Look out for a soon-to-be-famous Chemistry student's cameo.

[J_BlueFlower · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best of the three Moriarty-stories. I guessed the main part (I have read too many of Andy Weir's stories not to), but the plot and explanation was still good and consistent.

[Kels · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5