Sherlock Holmes' Elementary Puzzle Book: Riddles, Enigmas and Challenges Inspired by the World's Greatest Crimesolver

by Tim Dedopulos

"You know my methods, apply them."   - Sherlock Holmes Join the world's greatest fictional detective and use your own powers of deduction to solve these ingenious enigmas. More than 70 specially commissioned puzzles set in the world of Sherlock Holmes, designed to test your powers of perception, logic and deduction. Solutions to each puzzle are included. There's no greater (fictional) puzzle-solver. Now you can learn Holmes' methods and become a master sleuth!

Genres: Nonfiction, Puzzles, Mystery

144 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2014

About the author

Tim Dedopulos, a British writer, editor, publisher and game designer with nearly 100 works to his name in areas ranging from horror and sff, through music and art, to games, puzzles and jokes.

Tim lives in Spain with his wife and the ghost of his murdered bromeliad, grimly acclimatising to his new-found and unwelcome mid-40s. A shameless INFJ, he usually tries to avoid thinking in the third person.

Reviews

[Niya N · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you enjoy a nice distraction, this is a good book to pick up every now and again. However, if you can't solve one of the cases, don't get too hung up on it - some of the described situations are so peculiar and specific with the detail, that you simply can't expect the direction which the deduction is supposed to take. That being said, it is still intriguing to read the answers and follow the train of thought of the author. As an added benefit, the writing style is very well tuned to the age which it describes, and the language is quite amusing for those who appreciate the English rhetoric.

[André · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some were good. Most were all about mathematics, which reminded me of boring classes at school.

[Sebastian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good and some less so, some weren't worth bothering but I really enjoyed the few true Sherlock-style deduction puzzles.

[Roberta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad but requiring a lot of knowledge that is not valid nowadays, in order to get the answers right. Very uneven, too, as the maths problems are very straightforward, the word puzzles can be guessed with some thinking, but some of the other puzzles almost does not make sense.

[Elise · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leuke raadseltjes in Holmes stijl.
Sommige zijn wel een beetje lastig als Engels niet je moedertaal is.

[Mia•Loves•Words · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read and riddled about a few years through this book now. A little riddle here and there throughout the months. and now finally I am finished. I had fun, figuring stuff out. But I am surely not a Sherlock. Many of the riddles I didn't even understand in the first place, because of the old fashioned English writhing style. And let's not talk about the math-stuff. I left those ones out completely. ^^

[Mac McCaskill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining, but the answers to several puzzles are doubtful. Some solutions are poorly explained, so that it is hard to check their correctness or accuracy. And several rely on the vowels being A, E, I, O, U & controversially, Y.

[Harry Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started off well but the solutions became more convoluted and abstract as the book went on. It is well written though.

[Márcia · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars
Some interesting mysteries, some very mathematical.