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We arrived in Nairobi just before midnight after the 8 hour flight from London and awoke to the humid and noisy neighbourhood of Kasarani where Happy Life Children’s Home is based.   For those new to Happy Life you can read more here - Five Ways You Can Help Us Change Lives This Holiday Period) The children’s home is always busy and vibrant – with sixty children under the age of four, twenty of them infants below six months – there’s always something happening. For three of our seven years coming here we had been the only volunteers over Christmas, but this...

More Mystery, More Deduction, More Adventure from Sherlock Holmes Dear friends, As we pack our bags for the long flight to Nairobi, Kenya for our 7th Christmas at Happy Life Childrens Home , we wanted to thank all our readers, authors, editors and fans for another fantastic Holmes filled year. 2019 has been a pivotal year for MX Publishing. Across all publishing formats (print, ebook and audio) we've grown more than 50%. The watchword for the year was ‘innovation’ with us embarking on several new projects and breaking new ground in the world of Sherlock Holmes.  We've published plenty of traditional and authentic Holmes stories too, launching over fifty new titles in 2019. As...

"What a bonkers idea! To recreate in LEGO scenes depicted by Sidney Paget from Sherlock Holmes’ stories. How can this possibly work? And yet LEGO enthusiast P. James Macaluso jr has done just that and for at least thirteen stories from the canon. Apparently he sources his figures from existing collections, such as the Harry Potter sets, since the LEGO company has not yet realised the potential of Sherlock Holmes. The latest in the series, but the first I have seen, plopped through my letterbox the other day. It’s called A Baskerville Curse and is of course based on The Hound of the...

"David Marcum’s good collection The Papers of Sherlock Holmes has deservedly done well, and MX Publishing has taken the bold step of issuing his novel Sherlock Holmes & a Quantity of Debt as a hardback original. The title, taken from Great Expectations, hints at a Dickensian flavour in this account of the investigation of a crime apparently committed half a  century before. There’s a grand gothic atmosphere, and it’s a pleasure to find Inspector Alec MacDonald among the main characters.”  Sherlock Holmes Society of London   Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt is available from: Amazon USA    Strand Magazine (special offer) Amazon UK      Book...

Book Review by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London "Margaret Park Bridges takes an even more revisionist approach in her novel. The detective’s secret is disclosed at the very start of the book, and it’ll do no harm to reveal it here: Sherlock Holmes was a woman. It’s not a new idea but it’s handled here with great skill and confidence, and it has a purpose, to account for much of Holmes’s personality as described by Dr Watson.  Visits to the Turkish baths must have posed problems, but there’s no real contradiction here of Watson’s accounts. The woman Holmes lives as a man, and Watson believes her to...