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Kickstarter Our biggest ever target on Kickstarter launches this week with a very bold project - many people have asked us for a page-a-day calendar for Sherlock Holmes and thanks to the Herculean efforts of Mike Foy (illustrations) and Richard Ryan (canonical detail) we have compiled one. We need a lot of fans to participate to enable the manufacturing - 2024 Page A Day Sherlock Holmes Calendar. This year's will available to USA fans only - we hope to expand in future years globally.   Free Audiobooks The most popular form of Sherlock Holmes story is the short format made popular...

Dear Holmes was review by the New York Times three years ago (June 2020) back during the pandemic. The program has gone from strength to strength with over 40 cases now produced over the last five years. Here's the NY Times review in full: DEAR HOLMES is an epistolary mystery experience set around Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal Sherlock Holmes character, now in the American public domain and available for new cases. You sign up for “Dear Holmes” online, but the rest of the game is purely analog in the form of paper letters, sent to you the Victorian way — by post. The premise is simple: A series...

Another strong month for David Marcum's Eye of Heka and the wonderful short story collection edited by David from Terry Golledge. John Lawrence's collection has no doubt had a boost from the release of his new novel and Jay Ganguly's Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories continues to head towards the most successful Sherlock Holmes audiobook of all time with another top 10 placement.   1.   Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Heka – David Marcum and Luke Barton 2.   The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes – Terry Golledge and Michael Langan 3.   Sherlock Holmes and the Sixty Steps – Séamas Duffy and Michael Langan 4.   The Undiscovered...

Sherlock Sunday Kickstarter There are two campaigns happening on Kickstarter at the moment with several more to come. The Medical Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson has got off to a great start - a rare non-fiction book looking at the medical diseases in the Holmes canon.  Coming next week is Richard Ryan's 8th Holmes novel - The Devil's Disciples launching in the next few days. Free Audiobooks Every Sunday we like to focus on a theme, author or narrator. This week its individual short stories - including the brand new The Adventure of the Inn on the Marsh (The Art...

Baker Street Babes Kieran McMullan has written a book which initially asks a lot of the reader in terms of adjusting generally assumed characteristics of the protagonists. Holmes has moved to Sussex and kept Mrs Hudson as his house keeper. Mrs Hudson is, in contrast to almost all depictions of her, in fact younger than both Holmes and Watson and the basic issue of the book is the fact that John Watson has been in love with her for quite a while and intends to propose to her. Holmes is not surprised but finds it somewhat inconvenient as that change...