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The Baker Street Boys

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BfK No. 20 - May 1983

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The Photographs on our cover are by Camilla Jessel and are taken from Learner Bird (Methuen, 0 416 22460 1, £3.95) We are grateful to Methuen for making it possible to use these illustrations.

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The Baker Street Boys

Brian Ball
(Knight)
978-0340333006, RRP £1.25, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Plot is everything in this T. V. spin-off, which presents two stories based on the recent serial. There's a statutory reference to Sherlock Holmes every other page or so, since this motley ragamuffin band of 6 boys (and girls!) are his unofficial investigators. Of the two melodramatic tales I think I marginally preferred the latter --- assassins with foreign names and accents, gelignite under railway bridges intended for visiting Archdukes etc. etc. However, there's not much to choose between them, neither plot can't be found elsewhere and characterisation does not rise above the stereotyped.

Reviewer: 
David Bennett
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