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A strong audio month for new releases, with Arthur Hall's Recollections at number one, Paul Gilbert's Tales of Darkness at two and Margaret Walsh's Hellfire Heirs at four. Our two bestselling audios of 2023 complete the top five with David Marcum's Eye of Heka and Terry Gollege's Rediscovered Annals having another stellar month. 1.   The Recollections of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Hall and Michael Langan 2.   Sherlock Holmes: The Tales of Darkness – Paul D Gilbert and Simon de Deney 3.   The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes – Terry Golledge and Michael Langan 4.   Sherlock Holmes and the Hellfire Heirs – Margaret Walsh and Kevin E Green 5.   Sherlock...

Today we talk to Brett Fawcett who appears in Part Part XL: 1877-1887 currently on Kickstarter as part of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XL to XLII campaign.   What’s the name of your story in the collection?My story is titled "The True Account of the Dorrington Ruby Affair."How did the story come about? As a child, I wondered what Watson was talking about in The Valley of Fear when he mentioned how famous Inspector MacDonald had become. As an adult, when I read the stories of the gentleman burglar Arthur J. Raffles (written, or at least edited, by Arthur Conan Doyle's...

Today we talk to David MacGregor who appears in Part XLI: 1887-1894 currently on Kickstarter as part of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XL to XLII campaign.   What’s the name of your story in the collection?The Amateur Mendicant SocietyHow did the story come about?In "The Five Orange Pips," Arthur Conan Doyle referenced The Amateur Mendicant Society as an unwritten case of Sherlock Holmes. I happen to belong to a Sherlock scion society called The Amateur Mendicant Society of Detroit, and it made perfect sense to make an attempt to turn Conan Doyle's reference into a full-fledged story. Have you written...

Today we talk to Margaret Walsh who appears in Part XLI: 1887-1894 currently on Kickstarter as part of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XL to XLII campaign.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? My story is called “The Strange Case of the Disappearing Factor”. How did the story come about? I was looking at the untold stories and came across “The Adventure of the Grice Patersons in the Island of Uffa”.  When I discovered that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has created Uffa for his story “Our Midnight Visitor”, I could not resist taking Sherlock Holmes there. Have you contributed...

Today we talk to Barry Clay who has two stories in Part XLII: 1895-1903 currently on Kickstarter as part of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XL to XLII campaign. Where did you first discover Holmes?I was a voracious reader as a child, and that's when I bumped into Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Now, as an adult, I buy second-hand copies and hand them out (along with other books) for Halloween. And, of course, I hand out candy, too.Are there any writers/adaptations of Holmes you particularly enjoy?Yes, there is. I stumbled upon The Mammoth Book of The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes...