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Today's author profile from The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes XIX to XXI (now on Kickstarter) is David Marcum - who is also the editor of the collection.   David's Favourite quote from The Canon:  “We can but try.” Holmes says it in “The Problem of Thor Bridge” (published in February-March 1922), and then Watson says it in “The Creeping Man” (published March 1923), whereupon Holmes replies, “Excellent, Watson! Compound of the Busy Bee and Excelsior. We can but try – the motto of the firm.”   David has a story in each of the three volumes:...

The world's only Virtual Gallery of Sherlock Holmes art launches today featuring forty three original pieces of art varying in price from $750 up to $14,000.  Click here for The Art of Sherlock Holmes Virtual Gallery The artists involved have art hanging in more than fifty of the world's leading galleries including The Smithsonian, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Guggenheim. The Gallery's aim is to enable all fans around the world to see the art and get a chance to appreciate it - and of course have a chance to buy the originals. The Art of Sherlock Holmes...

"Calvert Markham has provided the foreword for The Holmes Sutra: A Birthday Gift for Sherlock Holmes as He Turns 160 by Jayantika Ganguly a charming and entertaining collection of observations drawn from apocryphal sources as well as from the canon. I particularly like ‘Sherlock Holmes is more than just a man– he is a just man’ and ‘The canon is real and true –though not always accurate’. As an appendix there’s a questionnaire to enable you to gauge your Holmes Mania Quotient. (I apparently am ‘Holmesick’…)” Sherlock Holmes Society of London Amazon USA     The Strand Magazine  Amazon UK       The Book Depository...

"This one is quite the page-turner. It is hard to believe such a great mystery could be crammed into about 150 pages! It keeps your attention from the first word to the last. Much like a mountain climber; when you think you have reached the climax of the novel, it simply means you are viewing the next peak.I have absolutely no hesitation in giving this novel five plus stars!” Reviewed by Raven's Reviews. Buy this book on our site and you'll be supporting our #bookstotrees campaign, with a tree planted for you by the kids at Happy Life Children's Home. ...

Sherlockian Musings – Thoughts on the Sherlock Holmes stories     The Creeping Man creeping down the stairs,                  illustration by Howard Elcock. The Creeping Man Monkey glands, Watson!  Or is it lumbago?  No, not lumbago.  You are so flat-footed, Watson.  You have to think outside the box, or in this case inside the box.  What is in that box?  Some mysterious injectable drug.  Cocaine?  No, that was my drug.  This is Professor Presbury’s drug, which he is using to, well, you know, become young again so at the age of 61 he can...