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"Johnson’s talent as an author of dark fiction is striking and his ability to explore the different shades of the genre are remarkable as shown in this very enjoyable book." In The Night, In The Dark is a collection of supernatural ghost stories from Roger Johnson that includes the collection 'The Tales from the Endeavour' which won the 2001 Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award for 2001 (an award first won by Sir Terry Pratchett with 'Mort'). "Roger Johnson is a dark fantasy writer…and a chameleon. Ten years ago he published a collection of ghost stories in the tradition...

Described by The Sherlock Holmes Society of London as "An exciting and witty romp" Dan Andriacco's first novel No Police Like Holmes has been a big hit with Holmes fans around the world. It's not a pastiche though, it is a mystery featuring Holmes fans rather than the great detective himself. His first book was Baker Street Beat which is also the name of his blog, contained essays, a pastiche and some radio plays. It's fiction though that Dan really likes to write. Here, one of the main Sherlock Holmes reviewers in the USA, Philip K Jones (aka The Ill Dressed Vagabond) gives us...

The British Library was the venue yesterday for a very special event - a live interview with Anthony Horowitz the author of the first new 'approved' Sherlock Holmes novel since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stopped writing Sherlock Holmes books nearly a century ago. The interviewer was Roger Johnson, the editor of the journal of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and one of the world's leading experts on everything Holmes. The audience thoroughly enjoyed the 90 minutes of questions and answers and Anthony answered dozens of very well prepared questions from Roger (with a little help from his wife Jean)...

"he tells a good story" There is something special about reading the Sherlock Holmes Society of London's monthly journal when you know there is a review of one of your books in there. The Case of The Russian Chessboard appears in this month's edition. The book is proving very popular in the USA in particular and is unusual in length in that it sits between the traditional Holmes short fiction and novel length. "The Case of the Russian Chessboard by Charlie Roxburgh packs quite a lot into its 110 pages. Not for the first time, Holmes and Watson are caught up...

A two part video review of Dan Andriacco's Sherlock Holmes novel - No Police Like Holmes - from Ross K. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwtNO_Ogqp8?rel=0] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9rkfn1nAM?rel=0]