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Barefoot on Baker Street by Charlotte Anne Walters at the top of the top 10 MX Publishing Sherlock Holmes books on Nook Books. #368,182  Barefoot on Baker Street #432,815  A Case of Witchcraft #597,768  Watson’s Afghan Adventure #676,319  Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes #730,512  Bertram Fletcher Robinson – a Footnote to the Hound of Baskervilles #820,630  Shadowfall a novel of Sherlock Holmes #991,330  Murder In The Library #1,094,539  In Search of Dr Watson #1,187,768  Rendezvous at The Populaire A Chronology Of The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle For a full listing of Nook Holmes books check out the Sherlock Holmes Nook Books page on Pinterest.

  Here is our weekly round up of the top ten Sherlock Holmes books as they stand from MX on Kobo Books: #47  Sherlock Holmes and The Lyme Regis Horror (2nd Edition) #110 Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of The Boer Wagon  #113 Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Bulgarian Codex #114 Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Edinburgh Haunting #116 Sherlock Holmes and The Lyme Regis Trials #169 Sherlock Holmes On The Air #207 Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Jacobite Rose #216 Bertram Fletcher Robinson - A Biography (co-creator Hound of The Baskervilles and close friend of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. #279 A Professor Reflects...

John Paulits has been writing fiction for over thirty years but rarely has his writing caused as much controversy as his latest novel – The Mystery of Charles Dickens. History records that on June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died of a cerebral haemorrhage. History, says Paulits, however, is wrong. June 9, 1870, is the day on which Emile de la Rue murdered Charles Dickens. His publishers have said that they’ve never had so many review copies requests – mainly from Dickens clubs and societies around the world. The novel suggests that during a stay in Genoa in 1844-45, Charles Dickens,...

There is a real sense of excitement amongst Sherlock Holmes fans as we enter autumn 2011. The filming of the new series of the BBC's Sherlock promises the next episodes in the spring, and teasers for the new Guy Richie film 'A Game of Shadows' get shared almost the instant they are made public. It is wonderful time to be a Sherlock Holmes publisher as well. The resurgence of Sherlock Holmes through the films and BBC series has created a whole new era of fans, and has meant that we will end up having published around twenty new Holmes related...

We’ve this week uncovered Amazon’s secret weapon in the eBook reader land grab. It explains why the new Kindle reader is selling in its droves and why the other eReader manufacturers need to retaliate very quickly. Code named ‘Operation Sandwich’ it’s a devilishly clever new tactic in the battle for ereader supremacy - read more.