Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes The Crimson Trail and Other Stories - Brenda Seabrooke
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Brenda Seabrooke has been a reliable and welcome contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. Many of those tales were collected in her first Holmes book, “The Persian Slipper”, and now she’s back with more in “The Crimson Trail”, ten previously published stories, here in one convenient volume.
My personal favorite is “Mrs. Farinstosh’s Opal Tiara”, relating one of Holmes’s early “Untold Cases”, before he met Watson. But each one is enjoyable, and Sherlockians will be glad to have this book in their libraries.
Sherlock Holmes The Crimson Trail and Other Stories is available from this site and also:
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What is a crimson trail? Is it blood? Or paint? Or yarn? Why would Sherlock Holmes revisit a previously solved case? How could an open window be important and how can a house be blackmailed?
Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions in The Crimson Trail and Other Stories along with cases involving the disappearance of a poet’s intended, a Christmas card clue, a missing tiara, a caped murderer, a vampire attack, and a mythical moor creature.
Ten traditional pastiches with a touch of fantasy here and there were published in Holmes anthologies at Belanger Books in the US, MX Publishing in the UK and Proceedings of the Pondicherry Lodge, the Sherlock Holmes Society of India. Brenda Seabrooke is the author of 22 books for young readers and The Persian Slipper and Other Stories, MX Publishing.
Her stories have been published in more than 40 anthologies and literary journals. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robie Macauley Award from Emerson College and was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award at Mystery Writers of America.