Melissa Alton
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The setting: 19th century India and Tibet
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Additional novels set in the Himalayas

Reviews

Multiple reviews of The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (alternately titled Sherlock Holmes:The Missing Years) are available on the Internet. Click on the following sites to find reviews for your students to read.
Activity: After reading, have students write a review of the novel. Or, divide up the novel and have students write reviews of the chapters. Chart the effectiveness of the chapters throughout the book. Which chapters did students like best? Least? Why?

 

This site was created by Melissa Alton at the NEH Summer Institute "Literatures, Religions, and Arts of the Himalayan Region," held at the College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2011.