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David Marcum Brenda Seabrooke has been a reliable and welcome contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. Many of those tales were collected in her first Holmes book, “The Persian Slipper”, and now she’s back with more in “The Crimson Trail”, ten previously published stories, here in one convenient volume.     My personal favorite is “Mrs. Farinstosh’s Opal Tiara”, relating one of Holmes’s early “Untold Cases”, before he met Watson. But each one is enjoyable, and Sherlockians will be glad to have this book in their libraries.   Sherlock Holmes The Crimson Trail and Other Stories is...

David Marcum There have been a lot of kids books related to Sherlock Holmes. There are countless variations of the adventures of the Baker Street Irregulars in various combinations. There are several series looking at the life of Young Sherlock Holmes. All serve to give young readers a sense of who Holmes is, serving as a gateway to lead them to the true Canon. This series does the same, but in a new and unique way – a Sherlockian mystery narrated by cats.     In Heather Edwards’ first book, “Sherlock Cat and the Missing Mousie”, two cas decided to...

David Marcum I first became aware of Martin Daley when he wrote his Sherlock Holmes novel “The Adventure of the Spanish Drums”, which included Inspector Cornelius Armstrong. Daley later became a regular and valued contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”, and then he published four volumes of Inspector Armstrong’s adventures.   Now, with “The Selected Cases of Doctor Watson”, he presents a collection of new and previously published material, all written with the same level of excellence that we’ve come to expect. This handsome volume contains eleven wonderful Holmes adventures, and true Sherlockians who appreciate the...

David Marcum I first became aware of Paula Hammond when she became a regular contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. It’s a shame that she didn’t contribute earlier in that series’ run, as that would mean we’d have even more of her excellent Holmes adventures. Ms. Hammond always finds a unique plot thread and presents it in the true Canonical manner. No fake modernized sociopathic Holmes here. These stories are the real deal: Holmes and Watson in the correct era, investigating Canonical-style cases. Since this book was published, Ms. Hammond has contributed even more stories to...

David Marcum The late Kelvin Jones was a Sherlockian legend, a shining beacon for decades, and it was always a thrill to read his Sherlockian scholarship and his pastiches. I first ran across his name in the 1980’s, when his scholarly monographs were on my yearly Christmas lists. Following his numerous masterful analyses of various specialized topics, he turned his attention to writing Holmes pastiches – which particularly caught my interest. But he never stopped his pursuit of the scholarly side of Sherlockiana, as shown in his volumes of The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes. Now, with the third and final book,...