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The interior of Sherlock Holme's residence in Baker Street was featured in The Strand magazine. There are many references and links in the canon of novels and short stories. Tony Reynolds, author of 'The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes' comments; "You'll see that Watson has his own bookcase. Now, in the Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson writes: "from my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory" from which I deduced that the good doctor had only a single shelf of books and had Watson use it in one of my stories. Any ideas?" Let us know any interesting links to the floor...

I normally start reviews with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is it any good?   Yes, in many ways, it is. The substitution of Holmes and Watson for Van Helsing is the main change in a story which follows the original fairly closely – other minor characters are...

Today's author profile from The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes XIX to XXI (now on Kickstarter) is Peter Coe Verbica.   Peter's Favourite quote from The Canon:  “Pray let me hear it.”   The Adventure of The Naval Treaty This quotation reminds me that each of us is at his finest when he listens.   Peter has stories in Volume XIX and XXI “The Adventure of the Matched Set” “The Deceased Priest”   Peter's favourites amongst his own works: Other works of Verbica’s which echo Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original canon include “The Musician Who Spoke from the Grave,”...

MX Publishing was the world's first publishing company to be 100% 'on-demand' - meaning that we print all our books worldwide to order. We have the largest catalogue of Sherlock Holmes books in the world at over 400 - with many new titles every month. We're proud of our environmental credentials and in February launched our #bookstotrees campaign where we will plant a tree in Kenya (at Happy Life Children's Home, one of our supported projects) for every book we sell on this site. So when we discovered these wonderfully detail Sir Arthur Conan Doyle busts that are also printed...

We're delighted to share that we've partnered with a Sherlock Holmes Miniature Books company and have loaded up the four ACD novels and the entire collection onto our site. To celebrate we are including them in our #bookstotrees campaign for 2020 where we are planting a tree in Kenya at Happy Life Children's Home for every book sold on this website in 2020.  You can see the novels and full collection here - Sherlock Holmes Minatures.