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Sherlock Holmes expert Tim Johnson recommends three Holmes' books for your August reading list on this episode of Read This Book! from the University Libraries, hosted by Lisa Von Drasek. The three are:   "Sherlock Holmes: A Biography" by William S. Baring-Gould "The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" by Lindsay Faye, "Medical Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Carl Heifetz.   Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries and host of Read This Book! Tim Johnson is Curator of Special Collections and Rare Books and the E. W. McDiarmid...

Now on Kickstarter - Volumes XVI to XVIII     Publishers Weekly - a record nine starred reviews from Publishers Weekly; “More than 300 pastiches later, this MX series shows no sign of running out of steam” Volume XIV review  “Amazingly, Marcum has found 22 superb pastiches, almost all from unknown authors. This is more catnip for fans of stories faithful to Conan Doyle’s originals. Volume XIII review  “Marcum continues to amaze with the number of high-quality pastiches that he has selected” Volume XII review “This is an essential volume for Sherlock Holmes fans” Volume XI review  “Marcum continues to...

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 Steven Philip Jones. How did you first get introduced to Sherlock Holmes? I honestly can’t remember a time when Sherlock Holmes was not one of my favorite fictional characters.  Holmes has become such an intrinsic part of Western society – you hear of him everyone, to paraphrase Mycroft – I imagine I learned about him that way and was just naturally drawn to him. What was the inspiration for your pastiche? “The Case for Which the World...

The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories is the largest collection of its kind in the world with over 150 Sherlock Holmes writers participating. The project has raised over $50,000 so far for Stepping Stones School for children with learning disabilities which is based at Undershaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former home. All participating authors donate their royalties to the school. Mr. Abdul-Jabbar joins a who's who of Sherlockians and NY Times bestselling authors who have taken part including; Nicholas Meyer, Lee Child, Bonnie MacBird, Lyndsay Faye, Les Klinger, Jonathan Kellerman and many more. He contributes a foreword to...

Sleepy Hollow is a quiet, isolated valley along the Hudson River in New York State. The inhabitants of this neighborhood are quite superstitious and believe in all manner of tales, stories and fables about ghosts, goblins and things that go bump in the night. The most famous of these legends is that of the Headless Horsemen, the apparition of a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball during the Revolutionary War, and who now, it is said, rides forth at night to the scene of the battle seeking his skull.One day an awkward, yet ambitious, schoolmaster from Connecticut...