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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...

For Christmas we held a competition asking fans to pick their favourite piece of art  from the first two Art of Sherlock Holmes collections (West Palm and USA) and send in their comments. We had entries from all over the world and the first one drawn out of the hat was Tina Sänger from Berlin in Germany.   Tina received her copy of The Art of Sherlock Holmes West Palm Beach and here she is pictured in her deerstalker!     Tina fed back to us that she really loved the book.   "The book is a beautiful and the selection...