News — Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Hound of Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Play by Simon Corble. The Hound of Baskervilles doesn’t easily lend itself to the theatre, but dramatists seem unable to resist the challenge. I’ve not had the chance to see it performed, but Simon Corble’s play is pretty close to the top of my list of favourites. It was written to be performed out of doors, with the audience following the actors from place to place. Mr Corble boldly adapts the story rather than simply dramatising, and the result is clever, witty, exciting – and refreshingly intelligent. David Stuart Davies contributes an appreciative...

“56 Sherlock Holmes Stories in 56 Days by Charlotte Anne Walters. After submitting her novel Barefoot on Baker Street, Charlotte Anne Walters set herself the task of re-reading all the short stories in the Canon, one a day, and writing about each of them on the same day for her blog at http://barefootonbakerstreet.wordpress.com/. For the book publication she has added her observations on the four long stories. Her remarks are often amusing, occasionally thought-provoking (why so little protest about the uncanonical back-story for Mary Morstan in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes? I suspect it’s because so much else in the film is defiantly...

Mike Hogan’s first in the Young Winston trilogy tops the charts for the MX Sherlock Holmes books on Boxing Day on Amazon Kindle USA…. #31,909  Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston The Deadwood Stage (Book 1) #48,419  Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Bulgarian Codex  (Novel) #52,561  Sherlock Holmes and The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden #59,564 The Real Sherlock Holmes  (Joe Riggs book on becoming Sherlock Holmes) #95,294  Sherlock Holmes and The Case of The Edinburgh Haunting (Novel) #104,732  The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #119,479  Sherlock Holmes Have Yourself a Chaotic Little Christmas #147,495 Sherlock Holmes and The Element of Surprise (Novella) #163,248  Holmes and Watson End Peace (Novella) #218,531 Sherlock’s Home:...

Here is our weekly round up of the top ten Sherlock Holmes books as they stand from MX on Kobo Books: #18  Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels #29  Shadowfall a novel of Sherlock Holmes #41  Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Legacy #44  The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes #54  Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula #59  Lost Stories Of Sherlock Holmes #62  The Real Sherlock Holmes #63  Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire #73   Sherlock Holmes: The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden #88  Rendezvous at The Populaire A Novel of Sherlock Holmes   Much of the top 100 is various free versions of the original canon...

“Sherlock Holmes and the Dead Boer at Scotney Castle by Tim Symonds. Once again Holmes and Watson become entangled in a potentially devastating political conspiracy. In 1904 an invitation to address the exclusive Kipling League at a Sussex country house has unexpected consequences for them. Holmes suspects that the lecture was arranged to provide an alibi for the murder at nearby Scotney Castle, but uncovering the truth stretches his powers to the limit as the killers have learned more from him then he supposed – and the Kipling League’s schemes, like those of Baron Maupertuis, are colossal. It’s an engrossing...