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Sherlock Holmes Society of London Covid-19 and lockdown have prevented “Don’t Go Into the Cellar!” from touring with the well-regarded Holmesian and other productions that are their speciality, but as the company’s actor and writer Jonathan Goodwin says, the pandemic did open the door to the online performance and a new fan base, not least for his recent interpretation of Jeremy Brett as Holmes. The five scripts in his new book Don’t Go Into the Cellar, Mr Holmes! Sherlock Holmes Stories Re-imagined for the Stage include an impressive reworking of “The Mazarin Stone”, a fantasy that introduces elements from other Conan...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Hounded! by Vince Stadon is mad, intelligent, and endearing. Mr Stadon’s chosen project during lockdown was to reread the novel and any number of related pastiches, watch every screen adaptation he can find, listen to every audio version, and play the occasional Hound game. His comments are balanced — if that’s the right word, which it isn’t — by remarks about his own life, interspersed with verses, songs, gloriously silly scripts, and more. He “makes deductions, adopts disguises, sends anonymous ‘Beware the moor’ letters to Canadians, steals footwear, learns Sherlock Holmes’s favoured martial art, and he...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London A couple of years ago I hailed Too Many Clues as the tenth in the consistently delightful “McCabe and Cody” series by Dan Andriacco. Yet the cover of No Ghosts Need Apply declares it to be “Book Ten”. What’s going on? Well, the new book is actually the tenth novel. Sebastian McCabe, BSI and his brother-in-law Jeff Cody have investigated a surprising number of homicides in the small university town of Erin, Ohio, but the problem of an impossible murder in Erin’s haunted gastropub, a former speakeasy, during filming for a popular TV show, Dining (Way)...

It's the first week of the year and with the holiday delivery issues behind us, we're back to audio AND print offers. 1. New Books (paperbacks, get them pre-publication) 2. January Offers 3. Free Audiobooks (we give away 75 books a week) 4. Audio App - Jeffrey Hatcher interview released 5. Sherlock Holmes Book Club   1. New Books As many of you will know, one of the benefits of subscribing to our newsletter is to know about, and get access to, new Sherlock Holmes books months ahead of the public. Here are some great new books you can grab...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London A captivating tale focused on the early career of a certain Giles Lestrade. It provides us with a fascinating insight into the private life of this much-loved Canonical character. Lestrade is a newly promoted rookie inspector who takes the lead in investigating the disappearance of a young boy. As the case unfolds, he convinces his seasoned inspector colleagues to lend their weight to a wider investigation of a gang of “slavers”. The characters in the book are very well drawn. I particularly liked the inclusion of Lestrade’s sister, Kristina, who helps to hold up a...