The Sherlockian Interview - Mike Chinn
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The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Chinn.
What’s the name of your story in the collection?
"The Adventure of the King's Code"
How did the story come about?
Since these were to be the last anthologies in the MX series I thought I had to bring back the characters who had appeared in the first Holmes short story to be published, "A Scandal in Bohemia", but many years later. However, the story is set in 1914, a few months before the start of the Great War, and it was pointed out to me that Irene Adler had actually died some years prior to that. So instead we have her daughter intent on spoiling the plans of a pro-German King of Bohemia. And as the title suggests, there is a code — one that, halfway through struggling to encode a brief message in German, I really wished I hadn't thought of.
Do you write on any other subjects?
I write in a variety of genres, and sub-genres — Horror, Fantasy, the occasional piece of Science Fiction, and a Western. My most recent book — Hail the New Age — is a fantasy thriller in the sub-genre of Spies'n'Sorcery (which I may have named, if not created) and is more Alistair MacLean that Conan Doyle, although I do sneak in a visual nod to the Great Detective towards the end.
Where can fans find more about your work? (e.g., Blog, Amazon profile, etc.)
I blog (very) occasionally on https://saladoth.blogspot.com/ and have an Amazon author page at Mike Chinn on Amazon which is more or less up to date
Mike Chinn - photo by Peter Coleborn