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Week 19 - Here are the offers valid from now until 9am Saturday UK time (4am EST). This week, you can use the special discount code for the books of the week on both books if you like (a big $60 saving) - and we've opened up for the first 10 customers as these are out most popular collections. Please click 'Apply' when you put the code in and check that the discount has applied and changed the total. Please consider adding a 'mystery book' to your order too as it helps us spread the postage.  Books of the week MX Book...

We love Jeremy Brett and we also love Stephen Fry - so when the latter talks about the former then we are in Sherlockian heaven. Here's the interview for those that haven't seen it. Stephen very kindly took part in our wonderful book for Undershaw - 'Sherlock's Home - The Empty House' with Mark Gatiss and others.  

A big thanks to David Ryan for this nice insight into this play with Jeremy Brett. Last year we published 'Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part' which covered his entire career. We then released an extract from that book called  'Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes' covering just the Holmes performances. On 26th June the world's most accomplished Jeremy Brett tribute act, Jonathan Goodwin, will be performing two new works live for fans using the new Facebook live theatre system - An Evening With Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes which allows theatre companies closed down under the pandemic to sell tickets for live streamed shows....

Audio continues to be one of the great growth areas for publishing and helps our authors reach new audiences. This year we launched one of our bestselling books 'The Monographs' finally on audio. In May, the top two audiobooks are the two Denis Smith short story collections - The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. However, over the last five years we can confirm that the most popular Sherlock Holmes audiobook we've sold is: The Demon of The Dusk - the first in the series of rediscovered adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Book six has just launch (The Justice Master) in paperback from...

In 'Murder In the library' the librarian is a very interesting character: Are librarians meek and mild bookish types with orthopedic shoes and granny glasses?  Or are they ruthless killers with voracious appetites for wine, women and song?  Can a young widow solve a murder with the help of a Chicago policeman and an affinity for Sherlock Holmes?  The Murder in the Library reveals all.  It’s elementary, my dears. The library in Chicago featured in the book is cool, but it's not as cool as the Kansas City Library. For us its the coolest outside of a library building we...