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David Marcum Daniel D. Victor has been writing Holmes pastiches since the early 1990’s – first a novel, “The Seventh Bullet” (1992), and then a number of short stories (many in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”). But he truly found his Inner Watson with his literary-themed Holmes novels (his “Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati” series). Now he returns with his next entry, wherein Holmes and Watson meet Hamlin Garland, the “Dean of American Letters” – and it’s no surprise that Garland has a case which only Sherlock Holmes can solve. And like many of Victor’s other...

David Marcum With “The Magician’s Trunk”, Dan Andriacco returns with his thirteenth volume of exceptional stories narrated by Jeff Cody regarding that unique larger-than-life detective Sebastian McCabe. – and counting the earlier short story collection “Murderer’s Row”, there are even more stories than that! Andriacco is writing Golden Age Whodunnits set in modern Erin, Ohio, and with each new adventure, we learn more about these Heroes and their interesting little city. In this volume, we find out more about McCabe and Cody’s backgrounds – about a mentor for one, and a woman out of the past for the other. It’s wonderful to...

David Marcum Geri Schear has been a noted contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories” since the series’ inception. But in addition to writing those perfectly Canonical tales, she also has a parallel series of Holmes novels, featuring Lady Beatrice – Holmes’s wife. For nearly fifty years, I’ve supported the true Canonical Holmes, with little time for anything that colors outside those lines – so the idea of Holmes having a wife (other than maybe Irene Adler, because it isn’t sure whether they married or not) doesn’t always sit well. But in Ms. Schear’s case, I’m happy...

David Marcum Tracy Revels entered the Sherlockian literary world by way of a short volume of Holmes parodies, a three-volume series in which Holmes is a magical member of the wizarding world, and an excellent online Christmas pastiche written in the traditional and correct manner about the True Holmes. From this, she was invited to participate in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes stories”, and she never looked back, becoming one of the most prolific contributors. Since then, she has shared dozens of excellent Canonical adventures with happy readers, and now these have been collected into three volumes –...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Not a month goes by without a new title being added to the surfeit of pastiche, but Denis O. Smith has a command of Watsonian style and tone that, bar the occasional misstep, has his titles rising above the generic. After an unpromising start with a title case that is somewhat over-burdened with technical details and a tad overlong, the other stories in this latest collection are far more enjoyable. In ‘The Hungarian Doctor’, Smith captures the tension of a classic Conan Doyle gothic with a riff on ‘The Greek Interpreter’ and ‘The Engineer’s Thumb’...