Cleek, the man of the forty faces vs The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Cleek, the man of the forty faces Cleek, the man of the forty faces Thomas W. Hanshew · 1910 288 pages · ≈ 5 h 20 m · Challenging

Meet Hamilton Cleek – man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek’s exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad…

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Cover of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Nicholas Meyer · 1974 ★★★★☆ 4.1 237 pages · ≈ 4 h 23 m · Challenging

First discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock Holmes, as recorded…

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Cleek, the man of the forty facesThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Goodreads — 4.1 (24001)
Google Books — 3.0 (1)
Apple Books — 4.5 (13)

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Cleek, the man of the forty facesThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Ratings — 24001
Editions 35 15
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 11939
Reading it now — 386
Written reviews — 560
Wikipedia attention — 3031
Pages 288 237

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