 US first edition | |
| Author | Nicholas Meyer |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery novels |
| Publisher | E. P. Dutton |
Publication date | 1974[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-525-20015-0 (first edition, hardback) |
| Followed by | The West End Horror |
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was made into a film of the same name in 1976.[2]
Published as a "lost manuscript" of the late Dr. John H. Watson, the book recounts Holmes' recovery from cocaine addiction (with the help of Sigmund Freud) and his subsequent prevention of a European war through the unravelling of a sinister kidnapping plot. It was followed by four other Holmes pastiches by Meyer, The West End Horror (1976), The Canary Trainer (1993), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols (2019) and The Return of the Pharaoh (2021) [2] none of which have been adapted to film.
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was ranked ninth in the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels from 1974 and made The New York Times Best Seller list for forty weeks between September 15, 1974, and June 22, 1975.[3][4]
- ^ "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution | Theater in Chicago". Time Out Chicago. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- ^ a b Bunson, Matthew (1997). Encyclopedia Sherlockiana. Simon & Schuster. p. 227. ISBN 0-02-861679-0.
- ^ Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1974. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
- ^ Adult New York Times Best Seller Lists for 1975. Retrieved 23 December 2012.