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Week 25 - Summer Review Week! Some amazing reviews on new books from the Sherlock Holmes Society of London in their summer journal - to celebrate, we're doing a buy 2 get one free on all nine books. Plus - two more new free audio books....   AUDIOBOOKS - there are two this week - The 1895 Murder and Sole Contact Please use contact us form quoting THIF-84 and let us know your country - we'll send you both books. The 1895 Murder (McCabe and Cody Book 3)  Popular mystery writer Sebastian McCabe is about to conquer a new world with his Sherlock Holmes play 1895. On opening night,...

From the author of 'The Monographs - A comprehensive manual on all you need to know to become an expert Deductionist'  ... Part 2 in his podcast on situational awareness - an excellent watch / listen.  

Sherlock Holmes Society of London "A lively and captivating tale in which Holmes and Watson assist Inspector Lestrade in investigating the stabbing to death of a man in the East End. The story is set against the backdrop of the Great London Dock Strike of 1889 and draws cleverly on the rising tensions between the dock owners and dock workers at that time. The characters in the tale are well drawn and I particularly liked the inclusion of Scotland Yard’s Inspector Edmund Reid, the real-life detective who helped to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. There are some...

The Sherlock Holmes Society of London "The first President of this Society, S.C. Roberts, once observed “Certain imaginative playwrights, with a greater regard for popular sentiment than for documentary evidence, have boldly portrayed Sherlock Holmes not only as a lover, but as husband and father”. This book is a Sherlock Holmes adventure with heart, states the author. This is a boldly portrayed Holmes who wears his heart on his sleeve, and who not only acquires an adopted daughter, but a wife, namely the by-then-widowed Mrs Irene Norton! The plot weaves together a number of themes; an attempted re-launch of Moriarty’s...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Vincent Starrett called August Derleth’s tales of Solar Pons “the best substitutes for Sherlock Holmes known to this reviewer”. A particular pleasure for me is that, although Pons deliberately models himself on Holmes, he doesn’t pretend to be Holmes. However, the two detectives certainly knew each other, and we can hardly doubt that they worked together — several times, as this latest collection bears witness. We learn that Pons played an essential part in the breaking of Von Bork’s spy ring, and that Holmes, along with Dr Thorndyke and Nayland Smith, had a hand in...