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Sherlock Holmes and the Ghoul of Glastonbury

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Emotion-filled memories come cascading from the mind of Britain’s foremost investigator as a troubled Glastonbury sends its emissaries to beg help in solving a series of poisonings besetting a region Holmes had experienced and explored as a young lad.Somerset, battleground of successive invaders over the centuries, has a secret which forms a bond between all those born under the mantle of Britannia, a secret trying to break free but which, in doing so, might destroy the very fabric of Britain’s hard-won but still tenuous unity.Sherlock Holmes, summoned to solve a murder threatening ruin to greater Glastonbury’s commercial prosperity, finds that...

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Sheerluck Versus The Paranormal Volume 1

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Sheerluck Versus The Paranormal Volume 1

The world’s only kid consulting detective is on the trail of the supernatural. Ghosts, ghouls, witches – indeed all manner of phantasmagoria – beware because Sheerluck, his sister Watson and the atomic sprite Mycroft have your details! In this volume: ZOMBIES CURSED PAINTINGS SLENDER MAN DOPPELGANGERS Are they real? Or what? You will thrill to the terrifying and frankly bizarre cases Sheerluck and co have dealt with. So sit down, strap in and unexpect the expected! “The characters of Sherlock Holmes world, Sheerluck, Watson, and Mycroft have evolved into eerily wacky versions of themselves. They take the reader on a...

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Author Interview – Brenda Seabrooke

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Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Brenda Seabrooke. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? My grandparents lived in a tiny town. I always took books to read when we visited but one visit when I was 9 I read all of my books too quickly. I went looking for books and discovered the Sherlock Holmes books in the hall bookcase. I read my way through them starting that day. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? I knew about colonial...

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Author Interview – Dick Gillman

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Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Dick Gillman. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? My first experience of Sherlock Holmes was watching the old black and white films from the fifties when Holmes and Watson were played by Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. This prompted me to go on to read and explore the canon. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? After Prof. Moriarty’s demise at Reichenbach, I felt there was a void which cried out to be filled....

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories – Author Interview – Jane Rubino

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Throughout the Kickstarter campaign, we will be adding brief interviews highlighting the talented authors who have contributed to the anthology. Today we have the excellent Jane Rubino. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? As an early, and quite precocious reader, and one who pre-dates the current explosion in YA fiction, I began reading adult fiction quite early. At home, we had a small library, shelves of books – I was probably around 9 or 10 when I first picked up “The Hound of the Baskervilles” and that started a journey through the Canon that I revisit to this day....

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