The Canary Trainer

"The third of the versatile Meyer's canny Conan Doyle pastiches . . . takes Sherlock Holmes into new and fanciful terrain. . . . [A]depts and novices alike will relish the author's adroit mimicry of the narrative conventions of Victorian melodrama and his eye for period detail . . . . [L]ively and entertaining." —Publishers Weekly

Located by a computer in the bowels of a major university, this missing manuscript by Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes's biographer and friend, reveals hitherto unknown adventures of the Great Detective—while he was employed, incognito, as a violinist in the Paris Opera.

As the detective matches wits with a musical maniac—the Phantom of the Opera—in a death struggle for the body and soul of Christine Daae, the miraculous soprano for whom the Ghost serves as a mesmeric "Canary Trainer," we are treated to an adventure unlike any other in the Holmes archive.

Nicholas Meyer also "edited" the two-million-copy bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The West End Horror, both of which are available in paperback from Norton. Meyer is a novelist, screenwriter, and director as well as a Holmes scholar.

"Good, clean fun." —Boston Globe
"First-rate action scenes . . . canny suspense-building." —Philadelphia Inquirer

1995 / ISBN 0-393-31241-0 / 224 pages / FICTION/MYSTERY

• Nicholas Meyer lives in Los Angeles.
• Also available: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (ISBN 0-393-31119-8); The West End Horror (ISBN 0-393-31153-8)