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The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Orlando Pearson.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Bohemian Corporal How did the story come about? My series is called The Redacted Sherlock Holmes and my premise is that various world events (the rigging of the home insurance market, The Resurrection, Brexit) are only explicable if Sherlock Holmes was present. I trust that when people read any of the twelve...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Chinn. What’s the name of your story in the collection? "The Adventure of the King's Code" How did the story come about? Since these were to be the last anthologies in the MX series I thought I had to bring back the characters who had appeared in the first Holmes short story to be published, "A Scandal in Bohemia", but many years later. However, the story...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Adamson. How did the story come about? I have two stories in the final round of volumes. The first is “The Adventure of the Twentieth Gun,” which is a direct sequel to my story “Such Profitable Treason,” featured in MX Volume 46. This concerned the theft of a batch of Hiram Maxim’s first machine guns, and Holmes being approached to help the police track...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Liz Hedgecock. What’s the name of your story in the collection?My story is called 'The Riddle of the Sphinx'. How did the story come about?I liked the idea of writing about an older Holmes, and for some reason, the idea of a crossword puzzle stuck in my mind. On checking the origin of crosswords, I realised the action would need to take place in America...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Kevin Thornton. What’s the name of your story in the collection? It's poem called the Reader. David offered me the  chance to do something different and I jumped at it. How did the story come about? It was about my enjoyment of the canon and the place I feel it hold in the literary hearts of all fans. Have you contributed to anthologies before? I...