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To get a four star review from The Bookbag is impressive, and all the more so if it is your debut book. Gerry Kelly gets a very solid thumbs up for his collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories; "I'll spare people the details of Holmes and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up is probably familiar with the Victorian duo. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals and the best stories in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canon. The strong...

More parodies have been written targeting Sherlock Holmes than anyone else dead or alive, fictional or real. James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, started it all back in the early 1890’s and Sherlockian parody has been coming out regularly ever since, right into the age of the internet. While Sherlock’s creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived, close to 400 appeared in Britain and America. In these early parodies, Sherlock is off on the wrong track in the great Coleslaw mystery, struggling with the disappearance of the President’s Whisker, rescuing that damsel in distress, Elsa Lohengrin, and even delving...

"It’s a powerful subject, and Mr McMullen handles it well." The final edition of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London newsletter of 2011 reviews Kieran McMullen's 2nd novel about the Easter uprising in Ireland - 'Sherlock Holmes and The Irish Rebels'. "Kieran McMullen has once more combined his expertise as a military historian and former soldier with his devotion to Sherlock Holmes, and he’s added a third element – his own heritage – in Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels. Two years into the Great War, Dr Watson is called away from his post with the Royal Army Medical Corps and instructed...

"Overall this is an exciting and entertaining read which will definitely appeal to both Sherlockians and fans of Bram Stoker." The Bookbag is the one of the world's largest book review sites and we are always excited to receive the email from them that a review of one of our books is ready. Their review of Gerry O'Hara's first novel Sherlock Holmes and The Affair in Transylvania was a great one to read. "I normally start reviews with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania....

"he tells a good story" There is something special about reading the Sherlock Holmes Society of London's monthly journal when you know there is a review of one of your books in there. The Case of The Russian Chessboard appears in this month's edition. The book is proving very popular in the USA in particular and is unusual in length in that it sits between the traditional Holmes short fiction and novel length. "The Case of the Russian Chessboard by Charlie Roxburgh packs quite a lot into its 110 pages. Not for the first time, Holmes and Watson are caught up...