The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon


finished 5/15 ....... contemp fiction ....... rating 7.5

A take off of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem, Chabon even includes Sherlock Holmes as an aging but still observant character. Linus, a mute young Jewish immigrant boy whose parents remain in Nazi Germany lives with his pet parrot, Bruno, in a boarding house along with a parson, his wife and a couple other boarders. The year is 1944 and a man is murdered oustide the boarding house while the valuable parrot is stolen. The value of the parrot lies in the fact that he recites numbers in German (and other things) which gossip has it may be the codes to some German thing . The old detective, now a bee-keeper, helps solve the mystery.

Posted: Tue - May 15, 2007 at 09:20 PM        

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