Miller respects the historical timeline of factual events. Some of them “desperately clamoured for every fascinating detail of their stories to be told”, while there was little available information about others. “Most of the secondary characters, including the narrator and the ultimate villain of the piece, were real people,” he explains. Miller mixes these characters effortlessly. The Strange Case books intermingle fictional and historical personages from the late Victorian age. The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter (Seventh Street Books, February 2022) revolves around the suicide of Vincent Van Gogh, and throws up some intriguing perspectives on the era, the painter, and the power of art. Timothy Miller’s second ‘Strange Case’ novel features a witty amalgamation of Sherlockian investigation with historical oddities. In the best examples, the overblown prose of the originals is whittled to its clever core of satisfying plots and ingenious resolutions. The demand for historical novels set in the Holmesian world remains strong. The fascination of Sherlock Holmes continues into the 21st century, in a range of media and creative output. Sherlock meets Van Gogh: Timothy Miller’s The Strange Case of the Dutch Painter
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