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Charlotte Walters is rapidly becoming our most innovative author. If taking on the challenge of reading and reviewing all 56 stories of Sherlock Holmes in 56 days in a row (Charlotte is currently on Day 29) Charlotte has launched another fun book promotion idea. Barefoot Around the World encourages the readers of her stunning debut Holmes novel to take a picture of themselves with the book (or just the book) in locations all around the world and send them in. Reviews for Charlotte's book have, in the main been wonderful. There are some traditionalists that are not comfortable with a...

Charlotte Walters is on Day 24 of her quest to review the 56 Sherlock Holmes stories in 56 days (to celebrate the launch of her novel Barefoot on Baker Street) - and today its The Norwood Builder. Hats off to Charlotte who is juggling a full time demanding job, kids, commuting and trying to re-read a Holmes story - and review it - every day. We too love this story and Charlotte gives it a rare 9 out of 10. We also like it as one of our authors, Alistair Duncan, won the 2011 Howlett Award (Sherlock Holmes book of...

Philip K Jones, aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond, is one of the USA's leading Sherlock Holmes reviewers. He is the first to review the new The Case of The Grave Accusation book about Holmes. "Mr. Neely published the main portion of this book in The Coastal Bend Sun, a defunct Texas newspaper, in 2002.  For this book, he made adjustments to the story and added illustrations.  Mr. Spirling added a section of comments that summarize the contacts between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Bertram Fletcher Robinson between the publication of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and Robinson’s death. The basis...

Dicky Neely is an internationally recognised illustrator from Texas and life-long Sherlock Holmes fan. His first book, The Case of The Grave Accusation covers Sherlock Holme's most important mystery ever. We caught up with him in between scribblings to ask him about the book and his passion for Holmes. What was the main inspiration for the book? I was surfing the net some years ago and I came across the story about a man who was attempting to discredit Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning his authorship of the Hound of the Baskervilles as well as accusing him of wife stealing...

Philip K Jones (aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond ) is one of the leading Holmes reviewers in the USA. Here is his recent review of 'The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes' by Tony Reynolds. This is the first Sherlockian writing I have found by this author. It is a collection of eight short novellas, each set up similarly to the Canonical tales. Other than the language, which seems a bit modern, these tales read a lot like their originals. `The Giant Rat of Sumatra" takes place in London and migrates from a tale of murder to a story of a...