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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 John Lawrence.  What’s the name of your story in the collection? “The Devil’s Bridge” How did the story come about? Last fall, I was hiking to the site of my son’s recent elopement, which included photographs at the Devil’s Bridge feature in Sedona, AZ, and I could not help thinking what a lovely setting it was for a murder that Holmes might solve during the...

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 Jeff Matthews. What's the name of story in the collection? The Disappearing Detective How did the story come about? I wrote a Sherlock Holmes Christmas story for a previous MX anthology that we turned into a novella called The Case of the Disappearing Beaune. (That word appears once in the canon.) One of my Facebook readers loved it and asked if I'd do an Easter...

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 DJ Tyrer. What’s the name of your story in the collection? How did the story come about? I have two stories. The first, The Mystery of the Missing Body, derived from me wondering whether it was possible for Holmes to prove a murder had occurred if there was no body, which sent me off researching the law of the period to see if it were even...

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 David Marcum. What’s the name of your story in the collection? I actually have four stories – one in each of the four volumes: o    “The Adventure of the Flatigious Sire” (Part 49)o    “The Indiscriminate Paragraph” (Part 50)o    “The Uncle’s Cryptic Clues” (Part 51)o    “The Clue of the Undamaged Stones” (Part 52) How did the stories come about? As the editor...

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 David MacGregor. What’s the name of your story in the collection? Murder in Grasmere How did the story come about? I like the idea of getting Holmes and Watson out of London, and having visited Grasmere in England's Lake District, it struck me as the perfect place for a brutal murder. Have you contributed to anthologies before? Yes. Where did you first discover Holmes? In...