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A unique biography of Jeremy Brett.     The books are available on this site, on Amazon and all good bookstores; Colour Hardcase     Colour Paperback    Black and White Paperback  

Interesting documentary from a few years ago some nice images in there. "Sherlock Holmes Against Conan Doyle 130 years after it was created by Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes is a literary myth who turned out to be a fertile ground for inspiration beyond expectations. Despite Doyle's determination to escape his creature and forge a wider literary work he found himself trapped and overshadowed. The public of the time quickly embraced and shaped this character, to the extent that he was thought to be real and that people were asking Doyle to contact Holmes for help in their investigations. Find out...

Ben Cardall, 'The Deductionist' is a modern day Sherlock Holmes. In his latest challenge, Ben shows how memory training has heightened his situational awareness to the point where he aims to memorise 30 license plates from cars during a normal London day. We follow him on his 30 minute journey and it is fascinating. You can learn how to become Sherlock from Ben's book 'The Monographs'.

Several of our Sherlock Holmes books feature the Boer War - most notably  Tim Symonds - Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle Kieran McMullen - Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of The Boer Wagon This fascinating recent article from the New Statesman talks about how Conan Doyle featured. The long shadow of the Boer War As Victoria’s soldiers fought in South Africa, some of the era’s best known authors reported home. Their writing shaped the legacy of a traumatic conflict.  Had everything gone to plan, Britain’s conflict with the Boer Republics that began in October 1899 would...

Today is the launch of Joanna Reike's first UK release, Sherlock Holmes and The Cornwall Affair. Joanna is a bestselling author in the German language. Here's the first review.  Sherlock Holmes and The Cornwall Affair This complex mystery is the first of several Sherlock Holmes adventures by Johanna Rieke to be translated from German into English, and after seeing that there are several other titles by her that still remain untranslated, I hope that they too will be available at some point. This tale starts innocently enough: It’s September 1890, just a few months before Holmes will battle Professor Moriarty...