The Final Solution - Michael Chabon

I really liked the central conceit of this novella – an elderly Sherlock Holmes investigates a crime in wartime England but is defeated by the reality of the Holocaust, an event that cannot be explained, or even comprehended, by Holmesian rationalism. The execution of the idea works well in parts, but in others it all feels rather forced, in particular a chapter narrated by a parrot.

Hey, this is my second parrot book this year – maybe I’ll get hold of a copy of Treasure Island. Any other parrot books? Isn’t there a parrot in Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”?