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Whilst the biggest format these days is audio, our favourite format remains print and its wonderful to see that hardcovers feature strongly in this year's top 25. It's fitting that the world's most prolific Sherlock Holmes pastiche editor and writer, David Marcum, is at the top of the chart with his latest collection. The chart is mostly new releases from 2026 - but there are some old favourites in there including the two books about one of the greatest actors to have ever played Holmes - Jeremy Brett Playing A Part and the extract focussing purely on Holmes - Jeremy Brett...

Sherlock Holmes and the Halloween Murder It was a bleak morning towards the end of October, and the first autumn chills had driven us to kindle a cheerful blaze in our fireplace at Baker Street.    Sherlock Holmes sat curled in his armchair, his untasted toast beside him, indexing his dark-bound volumes of criminal history, while I glanced out of the window at the dun-coloured fog drifting past the pane.    Our quiet routine was abruptly broken by a furious clatter upon the stairs, and a moment later Mrs Hudson ushered a visitor into our sanctuary.   The man was a study in...

The new volumes of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories on Kickstarter this November include another huge name from the world of Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes The Baker Street Years.  Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in Europe, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled their homeland during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Brought to America as an infant, Frank attended Hollywood High School, class of 1977. He is a three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker whose feature film credits as writer/director include The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. In television, he created the hit series...

Tom Turley (Sherlockian Author) While our favorite Great Detective appears in five of these eight stories, his role is relatively minor, and his deductions (thanks to the machinations of his elder brother) miss more often than they hit. For it is Mycroft Holmes who dominates this volume, intent as always on pursuing British interests, and never more single-mindedly than here. New readers who come to Pearson from the Canon must adjust to several facts.  First, his stories carry on into the 1940s, with the Holmes brothers and Watson (whatever Baring-Gould may say) solving cases in their nineties. More importantly, Mycroft—who,...

There is a new leader on the chart - well, a new collection from an old leader. Caiden Cooper Myles is back with his third collection and a very fast start to take the top spot from 2026's top selling collection from Bill DeFeo. The new leadership may be short lived however as Bill's third collection - Hearthside at Baker Street came out a few days before the end of the month and has already climbed to #16.  A very strong showing from newcomer Gustavo Bondi at number 4 and Ken Courtenay remains the bestselling novelist with both of his...