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10 Fascinating Women in the Sherlock Holmes Canon (who aren't Irene Adler)

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To celebrate International Women's Day we're sharing this list of fascinating female characters in the Sherlock Holmes canon. ACD was hardly a feminist, but he did give us a wide range of colourful female characters, from virtuous to villainous and everywhere in between. Besides Irene who outsmarts Holmes and is undoubtedly a badass, here's some other characters, both good and bad.

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Book Review - Welcome To Undershaw

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Book Review - Welcome To Undershaw

“What Like Kuhns has done is to provide both a history of the building, as well as aspects of Doyle’s life leading up to when he built it, lived in it, and then moved away. Additionally, he has documented the sometimes contentious history of the site over the last few years as groups worked together – and sometimes squabbled – over the best way to make use of the historic treasure. Now the house is being wonderfully used by the Stepping Stones School, which would have certainly made Doyle very happy and proud. This is a handsome book that friends...

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The Sherlockian Interview - Author Bonnie MacBird

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The Sherlockian Interview - Author Bonnie MacBird

Bonnie MacBird is one of the world's bestselling Sherlock Holmes authors, and it's easy to see why when you read the reviews of her three Holmes novels. In this interview we talk about her background, how she tackles constructing her novels, and her new book - Devil's Due (and if you order the book through this site you'll be planting a tree through our #bookstotrees campaign).     You can read Bonnie's profile on the Harper Collin's website and follow Bonnie on Twitter @macbird.          

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Books To Trees Project Breaks Through 200 in First Month

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Books To Trees Project Breaks Through 200 in First Month

We're delighted to share that our #bookstotrees campaign where we are planting a tree for every book sold on mxpublishing.com in 2020 has got off to a fantastic start. We have sold fifty books on the site in February, and we pledged to plant a tree for every backer of our current Kickstarter campaign when we reached 150 backers - we hit 151 overnight!  So 50+151 takes us to 201 trees which is well on our way to our 1,000+ target for 2020. There's still time to get involved with the Kickstarter - Volumes XIX to XXI - there are...

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Sherlock Holmes El Secreto de la Caja de Sándalo

Posted by Steve Emecz on

  Valle de los Reyes, Egipto, 1880. From: Amazon USA       Amazon Espana 

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