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The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Paul Metcalfe. What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Case of the Australian Atlases How did the story come about? Having collected all the MX new SH volumes, I finally got around to having a go at my own story, something I'd wanted to for a long while but never felt confident enough. As they say, write what you know, and the...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Paul Hiscock. What’s the name of your story in the collection? My final story for the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories is called ‘The Sound of the Grand’s Piano’. How did the story come about? I like setting stories in places that I have been. In this case, memories of the sumptuous afternoon teas drew me to the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne, just down...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Orlando Pearson.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Bohemian Corporal How did the story come about? My series is called The Redacted Sherlock Holmes and my premise is that various world events (the rigging of the home insurance market, The Resurrection, Brexit) are only explicable if Sherlock Holmes was present. I trust that when people read any of the twelve...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Chinn. What’s the name of your story in the collection? "The Adventure of the King's Code" How did the story come about? Since these were to be the last anthologies in the MX series I thought I had to bring back the characters who had appeared in the first Holmes short story to be published, "A Scandal in Bohemia", but many years later. However, the story...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Mike Adamson. How did the story come about? I have two stories in the final round of volumes. The first is “The Adventure of the Twentieth Gun,” which is a direct sequel to my story “Such Profitable Treason,” featured in MX Volume 46. This concerned the theft of a batch of Hiram Maxim’s first machine guns, and Holmes being approached to help the police track...