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Sherlock Author Profile - Mark Mower
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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 Mark Mower. Mark's Favourite quote from The Canon: “From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a single link of it. Like all others arts, the Science of Deduction and Analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study…” . ...
Sherlock Author Profile - Kevin Thornton
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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 Kevin Thornton. Kevin's Favourite quote from The Canon: "My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller." (The Boscombe Valley Mystery) Kevin has stories in Volume XIX and XX This is my fifth and sixth appearances in the MX books; Previously I was in IX, XI, XIII, XVI and now XIX and XX. I have plans to be in all three of XXII, XXIII and XXIV, so I’d better...
Sherlock Author Profile - Stephen Herczeg
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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 Stephen Herczeg. Stephen's Favourite quote from The Canon: "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia Stephen has a story in Volume XX "The Adventure at Dead Man's Hole" Stephen's favourites amongst his own works: The Necronomicon of Solar Pons - Belanger Books, featuring my story "The Rondine of Cthulhu" Journeys - The Australian Speculative Fiction Group, featuring my story "Titan" Key to the...
Sherlock Author Profile - Susan Knight
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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 Susan Knight. Susan's Favourite quote from The Canon: My favourite quote is from The Empty House and is spoken by Mrs Hudson: 'I went to it on my knees, sir, just as you told me.'. Susan has a story in Volume XX “The Case of the Short-Sighted Clown” Susan's favourites amongst her own works: Mrs Hudson Investigates A distraught young woman arrives at Baker Street urgently requesting the assistance of Mr Sherlock Holmes. But the great man and his...
Sherlock Author Profile - Paula Hammond
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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 Paula Hammond. Paula's Favourite quote from The Canon: There are so many wonderful moments in The Canon but perhaps my favorite comes from “The Final Problem”, when Moriarty visits Holmes in his rooms. A less-skilled author might have given us page after page of verbal fencing, but Doyle does the exact opposite. In just a few lines, he sums up the brilliance of both protagonists—the fact that they’re so well-matched they can anticipate each other’s thoughts and, equally,...