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Dealing with Babies - John and Greg Discuss Sherlock Holmes
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Top 25 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in April - Short Story Collections Dominate
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The top eight Sherlock Holmes audiobooks in April were short story collections with Caiden Cooper Myles taking the top spot with his second set of "Further Memoirs" stories. The first set still very popular at number four in the chart. Australian writer Steve Herczeg comes in with a new entry at number two with his third "Curious Cases" collection - expect to see his fourth collection in the chart next month as it has just been released. A blast from the past in at number 10 is "Sherlock's Home - The Empty House'" which features many famous Sherlockians including Stephen Fry...
Sherlock Book Reviews - The Business of Baker Street - William DeFeo
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David Marcum One of the best aspects of MX Publishing is that it provides an opportunity for enthusiastic new Sherlockian authors to share their work and reach an enthusiastic audience. William DeFeo is the latest to be part of this with his five-story collection, “The Business of Baker Street”. While there are a few hiccups along the way – chronology issues, Watson’s employment at a certain hospital, etc. – that don’t fit with Established Canon and The Great Holmes Tapestry, DeFeo’s enthusiasm is apparent, and his plots are clever, reflecting his legal and educational background. It will be interesting to...
Book Reviews - Sherlock Holmes and The Crowned Heads of Europe
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Publishers Weekly "Turley debuts with a superior collection of four interconnected novellas involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in intelligence work on behalf of the British government. In the most memorable entry, “The Adventure of the Inconvenient Heir-Apparent,” Empress Elisabeth of Austria invites Holmes to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1898 in the hope the detective can clear up the circumstances of the deaths of her son, Rudolf, and his mistress nine years earlier, a tragedy generally regarded as a murder-suicide. The solution Holmes arrives at is grounded in the political tensions roiling the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time. In “The...
Top 25 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in March
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Once again it is short story collections that dominate the top five Sherlock Holmes audiobooks chart and a return to the top for Caiden Myles after many months running second to Denis Smith's latest collection. Margaret Walsh's new novel, The Deathly Clairvoyant comes in at number three as the top novel in March. 1. The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Book II – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 2. The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Denis O Smith and Kevin E Green 3. Sherlock Holmes and the Deathly Clairvoyant – Margaret Walsh and Kevin E Green 4. The Crimson...