Monday, October 17, 2011

The Canary Trainer


I'm not really liking the background figure (Erik - The Phantom) in this. I think I'll do a re-draw on the background and re-post in the not to distant future.
Anyway, background... This is based on the Nicholas Meyer novel The Canary Trainer. It's one of three Sherlock Holmes novels he wrote (along with The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror). This particular novel is set in Holmes "Great Hiatus" era after his faking his own death at Reichenbach Falls in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Story The Final Problem. Holmes finds himself in Paris playing violin in the Palais Garnier under Gaston Leroux (the author of The Phantom of the Opera). As one may expect, everything that goes wrong is attributed to "the ghost". While investigating these and other situations Holmes must also contend with The Phantom of the Opera.

Pictured, above center: Erik/The Phantom. Bottom row (from left to right) Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler.

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