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“This hardback edition, published in 2014, combines two earlier collections. Volume I consists of traditional pastiches, ranging from the faintly comic to the genuinely tragic, and even including a case-within-a-case. All the stories are cleverly plotted and very much in Conan Doyle’s own style. The latter tales are more ambitious, in that they begin during the period of Holmes’ supposed “retirement,” when (at his brother Mycroft’s urging) he worked to counter German espionage prior to World War I, as recounted by Doyle in “His Last Bow.“ That poignant case was hardly Holmes’ last bow for David Marcum. With remarkable originality,...

“… Wendy C. Fries writes with such wonderful humour and joy, not one story falls short. Holmes and Watson are portrayed vividly and with such skill you do not need the date markers or hansoms or the London Eye to tell whether you’re in Victorian London or in modern London…” Reviewed by The Melbourne Review of Books Read the full review here. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met is available from all good bookstores including   Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository . In ebook format...

“David Ruffle’s HOLMES AND WATSON: AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE (2015; 140 pp.) brings Holmes and Watson to New York, so that Holmes can lecture at a training academy for the city’s police force (and help solve a murder), and to Fall River, where Holmes solves two more murders and has a chance to meet Lizzie Borden and review the records of the murders of her father and stepmother.” Pre publication copies available from The Strand Magazine Holmes and Watson – An American Adventure is available for pre order from all good bookstores including  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book...

“This is the most “authentic-feeling” work I have read. Doyle himself would be pleased with this. Every detail reeks of authenticity. It was difficult to put this down, and I’m sorry I’m finished!” Available from Amazon UK and Amazon USA. Geri’s next book, Sherlock Holmes and The Other Woman will be out in November.           

“Before Sherlock Holmes meets John Watson, the young detective solves crimes with a bright lady friend in this delectable ‘before Watson’ novel. In Croyle’s (The Caretaker, 2009) new series, Holmes is a loner college student at Oxford in 1874 when he’s bitten by a dog visiting the campus with its owner, Priscilla ‘Poppy’ Stamford…” Read the full review here. Pre publication copies are available from The Strand Magazine.