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Almost every Sherlockian of my acquaintance owns multiple copies of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” – some as stand-alone volumes, as part of a compendium, as annotated versions, hard cover, paperbacks and so on. Some contain facsimiles of Sidney Paget’s original illustrations for “The Strand” magazine. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Re-Imagined – The Complete Collection faithfully re-creates the 104 Paget images using only genuine LEGO® mini bricks and figures. The book itself is 328 pages long and contains each unabridged story. As a mom who has spent many Christmas mornings and birthdays helping my kids build LEGO castles, pirate...

"At 81⁄2 x 11 inches and 468 pages, this is a real door-step of a book! A mammoth undertaking carried out over a number of years, the author has managed to combine both biography and a seemingly exhaustive inventory of Brett’s entire career. Scrupulously researched and fact-checked, with a foreword by David Burke, this sets a very high standard for any future biographers. It is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photos, many rare and some that are pleasingly familiar." The Sherlock Holmes Society of London 'District Messenger No. 402, August 2020' The book is available in three formats: Colour Hardcase   ...

We're delighted to share that we have reached our 1,000 trees target for our #bookstotrees campaign this week. We had thought it would be tough to reach the target by the end of the year - our fans however jumped on to the offer of us planting a tree for every book ordered on our website. One of our biggest fans in the USA, Aaron from St.Louis in Missouri, took us to the target with a large order for several dozen books to add to his growing Sherlock Holmes collection. Pride of place on the top shelf of his bookshelf...

Our top 5 bestselling books in print in July in the USA so far are:   A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes  Dead Ringers  The Monographs  Imogene and The Case of The Missing Pearls  Practical Handbook of Bee Culture  

In this fifth adventure, John Openshaw visits Baker Street to consult Sherlock Holmes as to the mysterious deaths of both his uncle and father upon the arrival of letters containing five dried orange pips and bearing the mark “K.K.K.”. The young gentleman further relates that he too has received a similar envelope with instructions to surrender some papers. Holmes quickly deduces that his client faces imminent danger from a secret society in America.   “Shook out five little dried orange pips.”   The death of clients This adventure is notable as the client of the Great Detective is murdered after...