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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...

“Finally!As a writer of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, I’ve been waiting years for a book like Nicko Vaughan’s “The Adventure of the Wordy Companion: An A-Z Guide to Sherlockian Phraseology.” A glossary of selected terms, phrases, and references from the original canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, this collection offers writers and readers alike a treasure of Holmesian information. Oh, sure, most of the alphabetical listings appear in the annotated versions of the Holmes stories (if you own such collections), but specific references are most difficult to locate if you don’t know the exact place to look. Want to know what a...

The Investigating Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes Colloquium and donation of the third largest private collection of Sherlockiana in the world were supposed to produce a weekend of great publicity for tiny St. Benignus college in Erin, Ohio. But when theft and murder come to campus, college public relations director Jeff Cody finds himself knee-deep in Sherlockian suspects, besieged by an aggressive reporter he loves but no longer dates, and competing with his eccentric brother-in-law, Sebastian McCabe, to solve the crimes first. The mess worsens when Jeff and his ex-girlfriend, Lynda Teal, themselves fall under suspicion of murder –...

Nothing’s ever easy when Sherlock Holmes is involved. Joanna Watson needs sports and academic scholarships if she is going to make it all the way to med school. That means keeping out of trouble, and her school record squeaky clean. But upon befriending the mysterious New Girl, Joanna has her perfect record ruined, skips school for the first time in her life, and finds a blackmailer aiming a gun in her direction. All she knows is that she’s going to get grounded… if they get out of this alive. “The Twisted Blackmailer is a beautifully-written book that tells an engaging...