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"It’s a powerful subject, and Mr McMullen handles it well."  The  Sherlock Holmes Society of London reviews Kieran McMullen's Sherlock Holmes novel about the Easter uprising in Ireland -  "Kieran McMullen has once more combined his expertise as a military historian and former soldier with his devotion to Sherlock Holmes, and he’s added a third element – his own heritage – in Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels. Two years into the Great War, Dr Watson is called away from his post with the Royal Army Medical Corps and instructed to join Holmes in Dublin, where, under the alias of Liam Altamont,...

"The book’s easy readability belies the awe-inspiring amount of research that’s gone into it."   Nominated for several awards, this wonderful guide has done well in all formats and will no doubt be a travel companion for many Holmes fans visiting Devon (and a great read for those that want to walk in the footsteps of Conan Doyle). "Messrs Pugh and Spiring broke new ground with On the Trail of Arthur Conan Doyle: An Illustrated Devon Tour. This latest book is essentially an enlarged and improved version, benefiting greatly from the participation of a distinguished Devon historian. We knew that Conan...

  Nothing that is secret can remain secret forever. But is it possible that some crimes are better left undiscovered? Join Holmes and Watson as they travel from London to storm-wracked Bedfordshire, where the Great Detective finds himself uncovering the grisly truth concerning a half-century old murder. “David Marcum has again managed to write a brilliant Holmes pastiche!” – Raven’s Reviews Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt  is available from all good bookstores including The Strand Magazine, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository. In ebook format it is in Amazon Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone). Available on Audio.

“One hundred. A ton. That’s how many audio-books Steve has narrated. And I am proud to say that nineteen of them are mine.”  I wrote those words two and a half years ago with not the least idea that two and a half years was the full extent of the time he had left. I don’t know Steve’s final tally of audio-books, but I am proud to say that we ended up collaborating on a total of twenty-six stories and three one-man plays. That’s about a day of recorded material but much much more time spent in making and editing...

Today is the launch of a very interesting book. 'Sherlock and Irene' tells the secret truth behind A Scandal In Bohemia, through the eyes of Sherlockian expert (and writer for The Strand magazine) Chris Chan. From the back cover: "To Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler is "the woman." In "A Scandal in Bohemia," she defeated him in his attempt to retrieve an incriminating photograph of the King of Bohemia. Or did she? In the tradition of "The Great Game," this book will explore the unanswered questions in "A Scandal in Bohemia," illustrating that there is much more to the case than...