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Sherlock Book Reviews - Eliminate The Impossible
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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...
Sherlock Book Reviews - The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes Volume 3
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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,...
Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript
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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...
Sherlock Book Review - The Magician's Trunk - A McCabe and Cody Mystery
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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...
Sherlock Book Reviews - Great Warrior - The Sherlock Holmes Diaries 1901
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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...