The Day They Met

Book 31 of my 2018 Reading Challenge

The Day They Met by Wendy Fries

Summary (via Goodreads)
Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have wandered far from the light of Victorian gas lamps. As Holmes and Watson they've tangled with Nazis, as Sherlock and John they roam the corridors of New Scotland Yard. In a world of so many fresh adventures, why not fresh beginnings to those adventures? From an 1879 Kabul train station to a King's College lecture theatre in 2015, The Day They Met includes stories both classic and contemporary, offering fifty intriguing new ways that the world's most legendary partnership might have begun.

My Opinion
The unique concept and wild variety (even though one author imagined all of these) made this a thoroughly enjoyable read.

"This is a work of fiction about a work of fiction."  After the author expressed the feeling to a friend that Holmes and Watson were fated to meet, the friend challenged her to come up with another way they could've met.  Turns out the author could come up with 50 and this interesting premise of a book was the result.

I didn't keep track from story to story but to give it 5 stars means that I enjoyed all or almost all of them.  I did take note of the best out-of-context line, "When two men try on lipstick together at two in the morning, something happens.  Friendship, partnership, bonding...something."