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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 Susan Knight.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? I have two stories in the latest collection: Sherlock Holmes and the Female Detective and Holmes the Hunter. How did the story come about? For the first one, I recently came across a fascinating new book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective by Sara Lodge, about the overlooked role of women in 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 Paul W. Nash. What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Killing of Lady Grace Everley How did the story come about? It was inspired by events in Europe late last century which many readers will remember, and the attitudes of the press and public to a certain celebrated Lady. I wondered what Holmes would have made of the case and, if there was...

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 Paula Hammond. What’s the name of your story/stories in this collection? I have three stories in this collection: “The Case of the Ghazi Genie”“The Case of the Covent Garden Medium”“The Case of the Bryniau Witch Tower” How did the stories come about? Watson tells us quite a lot about Holmes, but the dear doctor rarely mentions his own background, likes, and dislikes. You have to dig...

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 Natching Kassa. What’s the name of your story in the collection? My story is called, "The Case of the Puzzled Postman." How did the story come about? I love to read the canon and, while doing so, I realized there weren't many stories about the post. (I think the most famous story is "The Cardboard Box.") I imagined a story featuring a postman as 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 Thomas A. Turley. What’s the name of your story in the collection? My story, in Part 49, is entitled "The Adventure of the Madman's Sister." How did the story come about? The story is based on the last attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria. However, to give it a happier outcome and include a few elements history did not provide, I wrote instead about the next-to-last...