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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 DJ Tyrer. What’s the name of your story in the collection? How did the story come about? I have two stories. The first, The Mystery of the Missing Body, derived from me wondering whether it was possible for Holmes to prove a murder had occurred if there was no body, which sent me off researching the law of the period to see if it were even...

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 David Marcum. What’s the name of your story in the collection? I actually have four stories – one in each of the four volumes: o    “The Adventure of the Flatigious Sire” (Part 49)o    “The Indiscriminate Paragraph” (Part 50)o    “The Uncle’s Cryptic Clues” (Part 51)o    “The Clue of the Undamaged Stones” (Part 52) How did the stories come about? As the editor...

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 David MacGregor. What’s the name of your story in the collection? Murder in Grasmere How did the story come about? I like the idea of getting Holmes and Watson out of London, and having visited Grasmere in England's Lake District, it struck me as the perfect place for a brutal murder. Have you contributed to anthologies before? Yes. Where did you first discover Holmes? In...

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 Dan Rowley. What’s the name of your story in the collection?   I have two stories. The adventure of the amnesiac. The interrupted retirements.  How did the story come about?   The first story came from a collaboration with my dear friend Don Baxter. We decided to do a twist on the hoary tale of someone who can’t know what happened. The second I did...

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 Brenda Seabrooke.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Carpetbag Case How did the story come about? I read that a law was passed in Victorian England that gave women control over their property for the first time. I immediately thought this might cause a man to try to wed before the law was enacted to gain control over a women’s...