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"This is an anthology of tales involving Holmes with conventional Nineteenth Century supernatural occurrences.   The ‘Holmes Agency’ has always stood firmly behind the motto, “Ghosts need not apply,” but any number of questionable events pop up in this collection. The lead story, a novella called “The Skull of Kohada Koheiji,” presents Holmes and Watson with ghostly happenings at a Japanese exhibition village in Knightsbridge.  The appearance of a Japanese specter in the midst of London does not promote amicable relations between the Japanese Empire and that of Great Britain. In the next novella, “The Ratcliffe Oracle,” an oracle has...

“Diane Gilbert Madsen has given readers another winner in the DD McGill Literati Mystery Series. The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper is a marvelous tale of DD McGill who is an investigator for insurance fraud and her bookseller friend, Tom Joyce, who is asked to assess the value of the literary estate of a wealthy Chicago estate owner. McGill immediately alienates herself from those associated with the estate and Tom experiences a nasty fall down a flight of stairs. Even though the police believe the fall to be an accident, McGill is convinced it was an...

The Best and Wisest Man - Being A Reprint of the Reminiscences of Mrs. Mary Watson, née Morstan 1888: Dr. John H. Watson, Army Corps surgeon turned colleague of the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, decides not to assist in future cases as he is engaged to Mary Morstan. 1926: Mary Forrester discovers her mother’s diary, covering the years 1889 to 1893 — her marriage to Watson. What occurred in those years? How was the quintessential male friendship of Holmes and Watson seen through a woman’s eyes? How stable was a marriage where Watson was liable to abandon Mary at...

Help needed! Noted Sherlock Holmes author, David Ruffle would like some views, whatever they may be, on the subject of the ‘Lizzie Borden murders’ to be published in a new Holmes adventure where he is asked to look into the case. Please feel free to email me on lymelight53@aol.com. Thank you.

The Conan Doyle Notes is shortlisted for Best Suspense novel in the LOVEY Awards BEST SUSPENSE Black Stiletto: Secrets and Lies / Raymond Benson Once Upon a Crime / Evelyn Cullet The Conan Doyle Notes / Diane Gilbert Madsen Titania’s Suitor / C.L. Shore The House on the Dunes / Nancy Sweetland Murder Across the Ocean / Charlene Wexler Winners will be announced at the Love Is Murder Conference in Chicago on February 7th. The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper paperback edition is available from all good bookstores including   Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and...