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David Marcum This is a most interesting volume – in fact, it’s two volumes – which will be much appreciated by very young Sherlockians, or their older Sherlockian parents who want to raise their kids the right way.  Mr. Ryan notes that he wrote the book “because I wanted to share my love of Holmes and Watson with my grandchildren” – a most noble reason. It will certainly engage younger readers. Each letter of the alphabet is represented with a short poem – sometimes contained on a single page with a colorful illustration, and sometimes spread to two pages with...

In our book 'The Happy Life Story', one of the key stories is Beniah. We first met him ten years ago as a baby and now he's a happy, healthy ten year old living at Happy Life in Juja Farm.  Here's the extract of his story from the book: "Chiumbo is nearing the end of his ten hour shift collecting garbage in the Kibera slum and he is exhausted. He’s about to throw a clutch of carrier bags onto the wagon when he hears a noise.  He pauses – there is the sound again, coming from one of the plastic...

Every Sunday we're going to celebrate a Sherlock Holmes author with free audiobook codes.  This Sunday its award winning author and poet Jospeh Svec III. In addition to traditional pastiches, Joseph has written some tremendous fantasy pastiches featuring characters from literary lore. You can see all his books at the Joseph Svec Author Profile. As we are close to Christmas look at The Night Before Christmas at 221B   For the free audiobooks please fill in our contact form with letting us know which country you are in.   Audiobooks Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of Grinning Cat Time is running out!...

It's a record month for audiobooks and here's the top ten halfway into the month of December... 1.   Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Heka – David Marcum and Luke Barton 2.   Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Whitechapel Vampire – Dean P. Turnbloom and Kevin E Green 3.   No Better Place – Alistair Duncan and J.T. McDaniel 4.   Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Monk – Allan Mitchell and Steve White 5.   The Trial of Joseph Carr: A case file from “The Redacted Sherlock Holmes” – Orlando Pearson and Steve White 6.   A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories – Jay Ganguly and Kevin E Green 7.   East Wind Coming – Yuichi Hirayama and...

Week 50 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  Just three more weeks left in the year and we have another week with three brand new audiobook releases. Kickstarter - there's a couple of weeks left on the Octavius Bear Series campaign that The Sherlock Holmes Society of London described as "ingenious, exciting and very funny'. Christmas Shopping - please swing by our New Books page for Sherlock Holmes Books ideas and if you'd like to try a new writer or two in the safe knowledge that there's more books in a series, then our 'First Book in a Series' collection is a...