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Week 12 - Here are the offers valid until 9am Saturday UK time (5am EST). Only one discount code can be used per customer so please pick your offer. Please consider adding a 'mystery book' to your order too as it helps us spread the postage.      Books of the week Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes (click) $14.95  In the dawn of 1891 Sherlock Holmes is locked in a deadly game of wits with the sinister Professor James Moriarty; but events will soon transpire which will question the very outcome of Reichenbach. With Holmes presumed dead, the streets of London are panic-stricken,...

Benedict Cumberbatch will star in The 39 Steps, a Netflix limited series based on the same novel as Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 movie of the same name, according to Deadline. (Image credit: Warner Bros.) The series will reportedly consist of six hour-long episodes, following an ordinary man, Richard Hannay (Cumberbatch), who becomes an unwitting pawn in a vast, global conspiracy to reset the world order – 39 Steps that will change the world as we know it, with only Hannay standing in the way. read more on Total Film.... (MX Publishing has three performance biographies for Benedict Cumberbatch)

Week 11 - Here are the offers valid until 9am Saturday UK time (5am EST). Only one discount code can be used per customer so please pick your offer. Please consider adding a 'mystery book' to your order too as it helps us spread the postage.      Books of the week MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Volume X Hardcover (click) $44.95  Publisher's Weekly Review... " All 19 stories in Marcum’s 10th pastiche anthology (after Part IX) manage both to remain faithful to Conan Doyle and to display the creative plotting gifts of their authors." (full review)   436 Pages,...

In one of the most comprehensive reviews of Sherlock Holmes on screen, Jeremy Brett has come top from 100 actors reviewed - we couldn't agree more. You can see the full list of reviews here (Crimereads)...     You can read about Jeremy's performances as Holmes in the biography, Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes.

Much has been written about how Bookshop.Org has been helping independent bookstores - in the USA at time of writing $12.9m raised. Now live in the UK, over £1.1m has been raised already. The concept is simple. Fans can buy on the site and nominate which of their local independent bookstores gets credited with the sale and earns the sales commission. In addition, the 'affiliate' income goes to whoever sets up the storefront on the Bookshop.org site. This is a massive opportunity for authors. For example an author can set up a storefront with their own books and those of...