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Out today – Dead Ringers Sherlock Holmes Stories

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Join Holmes and Watson on eleven original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to The Copper Beeches, and learn the shocking truth behind the Bogus Laundry Affair. There will be murder under the big top, ancient prophecies come true, and a mysterious new queen of crime all putting the Great Detective to the test in these action-packed stories. This volume collects the best traditional pastiches by Robert Perret, Sherlockian author and scholar, and member of the John H. Watson Society and Doyle’s Rotary Coffin. Dead...

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Art of Sherlock Holmes #25 - Christina Major and Richard Paolinelli Interview

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 Fascinating interview with artist Christina Major and Richard Paolinelli.       Books and art merchandise available in our Art of Sherlock Holmes Collection. 

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Out this week: Comic Sketch Book – A Course For Comic Book Creators

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Petr Kopl is one of the most prolific and most experienced commercial comic creators in Europe. Petr’s “Scandal In Bohemia” Sherlock Holmes won the Comic Book of the Year Award in his native Czech Republic, and Peter’s comics have been translated into several languages. Petr also organises educational programs, workshops and lectures around the world. This book was successfully tested in workshops in Egypt for example. In this sketchbook, he shares his experience, methods and tricks he uses in his own comic books. This is a complete guidebook for cartoonists and scriptwriters. The sketchbook includes procedures and instructions on how...

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The Art of Sherlock Holmes Artist and Author Interview - Diego Perez and Mike Hogan

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The Artist - Diego Perez Can you please give us an intro into a couple of your favorite pieces from the past: It is difficult to choose only a couple of paintings from the past, so I decided to choose two paintings from different production periods of my career. The first piece is a studio of Caravaggio's Bacchus, I made this oil painting when I was in my last year of the National Painting School “La Esmeralda” in Mexico in 2010. Caravaggio has always been my spiritual guide and inspiration for my work, especially for the use of the chiaroscuro...

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Sherlock Audiobook Sales Pass 10,000

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Sherlock Audiobook Sales Pass 10,000

We're delighted to share that November has seen our Sherlock Holmes Audio Book sales pass the 10,000 mark since we launched audio a few years ago and it looks like we are going to have our biggest month ever as well.  For most publishers, audio is the fastest growing format and Sherlock Holmes is no exception. This month's top ten titles are dominated by certain author/narrator combinations. Our top four slots feature award winning novelist Richard T Ryan whose novels are narrated by Nigel Peever with Peter K Andersson's short story collections at five and six. Number seven is brand...

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