Tag: Six Napoleons

One Hundred and One Black Cats

One Hundred and One Black Cats

by Stephen Mooser; ill. Quentin Blake (Scholastic, 1975)

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It’s hard to believe Mooser was paid for this early middle-grade reworking of the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Adventure of the Six Napoleons’. It’s fun enough but overly simplified, blandly written and drained of mystery. Wholly unoriginal, save for Quentin Blake’s illustrations.