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The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Adamson. How did the story come about? I have two stories in the final round of volumes. The first is “The Adventure of the Twentieth Gun,” which is a direct sequel to my story “Such Profitable Treason,” featured in MX Volume 46. This concerned the theft of a batch of Hiram Maxim’s first machine guns, and Holmes being approached to help the police track...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Liz Hedgecock. What’s the name of your story in the collection?My story is called 'The Riddle of the Sphinx'. How did the story come about?I liked the idea of writing about an older Holmes, and for some reason, the idea of a crossword puzzle stuck in my mind. On checking the origin of crosswords, I realised the action would need to take place in America...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Kevin Thornton. What’s the name of your story in the collection? It's poem called the Reader. David offered me the  chance to do something different and I jumped at it. How did the story come about? It was about my enjoyment of the canon and the place I feel it hold in the literary hearts of all fans. Have you contributed to anthologies before? I...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its John Lawrence.  What’s the name of your story in the collection? “The Devil’s Bridge” How did the story come about? Last fall, I was hiking to the site of my son’s recent elopement, which included photographs at the Devil’s Bridge feature in Sedona, AZ, and I could not help thinking what a lovely setting it was for a murder that Holmes might solve during the...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Jeff Matthews. What's the name of story in the collection? The Disappearing Detective How did the story come about? I wrote a Sherlock Holmes Christmas story for a previous MX anthology that we turned into a novella called The Case of the Disappearing Beaune. (That word appears once in the canon.) One of my Facebook readers loved it and asked if I'd do an Easter...