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Saturday 25th May saw The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate 2019 take place at the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Undershaw. The debate saw thirteen Holmes experts represent a major Holmes adaptation. The question the debate asked was 'Did they go too far?'. First up was Bonnie MacBird who had the enviable role of championing Jeremy Brett and the Granada adaptation. At the other end of the spectrum, Mattias Bostrom took on 'Holmes and Watson' with Will Ferrell. The thirteen panelists dialled in from the USA, UK, Sweden and India using technology provided by one of the sponsors,...

We’re delighted to share that Brian Pugh has been awarded the ‘ 2019 Tony and Freda Howlett Literary Award’ by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London for the outstanding contribution to the literature of Sherlock Holmes for the revised and expanded edition of A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: May 22nd 1859 to July 7th 1930.   .      This is the second time an MX author has won this award - Alistair Duncan for ‘The Norwood Author’. A Chronology of the Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Revised 2018 Edition is available from all good bookstores including The Strand Magazine, Amazon USA, Barnes...

In The Detective, The Woman and The Pirate’s Bounty, Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler retrace the steps of pirates as they uncover a conspiracy at the heart of Florida’s islands. Death threats and gangsters are not enough to stop the pair as they meet new friends and enemies while seeking pirate treasure and preserving law and order. “Thomas portrays this iconic character and his mannerisms brilliantly. The story was so good and is written in such a way that enables you to picture it happening; as if watching a film.  I’d most definitely like to read more from this author...

    The first book in The Art of Sherlock Holmes series will launch on May 25th and the art will appear from May 10th - June 3rd ad the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens in West Palm Beach, Florida.

”With eloquent, refined, and precise prose, this novel calls forth the ethos of the time and the nature of Sherlock’s mind. In A.S. Croyle’s The Bird and The Buddha, a young Sherlock Holmes stalks a serial killer with the aid of a lovely young doctor whose need to solve the mystery is almost as great as her passion for the romance-averse detective. In this, the second book in Croyle’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-inspired Before Watson series, questions arise that threaten to lead the sleuthing pair to some unsettling conclusions: is the killer someone whose goal is to end suffering, or...