News — Book Launches

"This professor is the sort of teacher who makes learning a pleasure." Marino Alvarez's A Professor Reflects on Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of essays and writings about Sherlock Holmes. In their current newsletter, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London reviews this new book. "The title of A Professor Reflects on Sherlock Holmes by Marino C Alvarez (MX Publishing; £9.99/ $16.95/ €12.99) deliberately echoes that of A Doctor Enjoys Sherlock Holmes by Edward J Van Liere. The twelve essays make you think, but they also entertain you. Dr Alvarez compares the writing styles of Watson and Holmes, but stresses that only the reader can...

“Imagine waking up to the rustle of a jungle wind and the howling of monkeys. Imagine a place where morning coffee doesn’t come from Starbucks and the nearest doctor is a three-day hike away, longer if it rains. Imagine navigating your way down a trail — where a hungry leopard could be lying in wait — just to use the bathroom. Imagine cobras, man-eating tigers and neighbors who decorate their homes with the human skulls they hollowed out the night before.” Extract from a Fascinating interview with Bea Swedien Under the red blanket is available from all good bookstores including Amazon...

"Exciting and full of authentic military detail" That's how the Sherlock Holmes Society of London described Kieran McMullen's first novel 'Watson's Afghan Adventure' published in January and the book has received rave reviews from around the world. McMullen now turns his focus squarely on Holmes in 'Sherlock Holmes and The Irish Rebels'. It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called to London by Mycroft Holmes and is asked to...

"As a step-by-step guide to the London of the Canon, it’s unbeatable" As publishers we don't like to overuse the word 'epic' but its the only way we can describe Thomas Wheeler's quite amazing new book 'The London of Sherlock Holmes'. Tom first launched a book a decade ago with 200 Holmes locations featured and this year the third version of his book has a staggering 400 locations. "Thomas Bruce Wheeler has devoted much time and energy to researching our capital city. After 2009’s admirable The New Finding Sherlock’s London comes The London of Sherlock Holmes (MX Publishing; www.mxpublishing.com; £13.99/$22.95/€17.99),...

"deliberately and successfully funny" The Punishment of Sherlock Holmes is an engaging collection from Philip K Jones and Bob Burr collected over decades. The Sherlock Holmes Society of London describes the book this week in their journal as: "The Punishment of Sherlock Holmes: Selected Sherlockian Puns edited by Bob Burr and Philip K Jones is a deliberately and successfully funny assemblage of what must be several hundred short and short-short shaggy dog stories about Holmes and Watson. The book is dedicated to John Bennett Shaw, who would have loved it." The book compiles short stories from several decades and from...