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It was an incredible evening of tributes to Jeremy Brett. Over 400 fans registered and live on the night we had 246 fans from more than a dozen countries taking part (UK, USA, Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Spain, Czech Republic, Australia, India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia). Here's a link to the recording. If you enjoy the performances, please consider a small donation to Don't Go Into The Cellar Theatre - under the pandemic, donations are their sole source of income.     And the key links: GoFundMe - donation for Don't Go Into The Cellar (MX...

Week 9 - 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.  For fans in the UK, we have the last of our office stock all at 75% off - UK Clearance.       50% off all female authors Until the end of March, it's International Women's Month and all books in our Sherlock Holmes Female Authors Collection (click here) are available for 50% off (minimum order 3...

We're delighted to share we now have members of the book club in USA, UK, Germany and Australia. To celebrate,  until the end of March if you join the club you'll get the following extra gifts: USA - The Monographs - A Guide To Becoming like Sherlock Holmes (RRP US$22.95) Australia and Europe - The Molly Boy Murders - the first of three Sherlock Holmes novels from Australian writer Margaret Walsh (RRP $US14.95) UK - Sherlock and Sons Gin Gift Set (RRP £20) We'd love to be able send you all the Gin, but we're not able to ship it...

As a “traditional” Sherlockian, whose own writing strays no farther from the canon than does Baring-Gould’s, I found Canadian author Allison Osborne’s new book (the first of five projected “Holmes and Co.” mysteries) a very different take. Even so, it was an enjoyable and rewarding read. The novel’s heroine is Irene Holmes. Yes, she is the Great Detective’s daughter, but Ms. Osborne does not tell us who her mother was. (Surely, Irene’s illustrious namesake could not have borne a child who is “almost thirty” in 1944.) Nor can her father aid us here, for in old age Holmes’s great mind...

"I first encountered Matthew Elliott as a fellow-contributor to Sherlock magazine, whose last issue appeared in 2006, the year in which Mark Gatiss told the Society of the mad idea he and Steven Moffat had for an updated Sherlock Holmes. Matthew has since established himself as a scriptwriter and occasional actor, and as the deviser and presenter of our annual Film Evening. There’s no one better qualified to provide a survey of Sherlock – which he does in The Immortals: An Unauthorised Guide to Sherlock and Elementary. Cumberbatch or Miller? They’re both fine actors, equally superb in Danny Boyle’s production of Frankenstein, and Matthew Elliott’s guide is throughout...