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Please use the contact us form, quote Sherlock Sunday Three From Five and let us know which country you are from and which three collections you would like - from a choice of five. Please check your library so you don't ask for books already have (codes are hard to re-allocate).    Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis More menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbors evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from the hearts of the most...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London By the time you read this, thirty-nine volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories will have been published. The contents help satisfy the appetite of the many who want more than the sixty canonical accounts, and the royalties have so far raised over £80,000 for Undershaw, the house that Conan Doyle built for himself and his family, now an outstanding school for children with special educational needs and disabilities.   An Investees’ Anthology stands outside the numbered sequence. All but a couple of the stories, verses and forewords are reprinted from earlier...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London The latest in the series of the MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories feature ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night. Editor and contributor, David Marcum, has again assembled an impressive collection of contributors for a superb selection of fifty-eight new tales spread over three volumes. Some of those names will be familiar to readers of past offerings — Arthur Hall, Paul D Gilbert, Mark Mower, to mention a few — in addition to a host of new authors, proving that Holmes’s popularity shows no sign of waning. As ever, the...

Kickstarter Last day coming up for our biggest ever target on Kickstarter. It's 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.    Free Audiobooks A very special week as we have three brand new books all out this week. Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 26-2024 and let us know which country you...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London - Summer Journal 2023 Five years on from Mr Reekie’s impressive “illustrated and enhanced” edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes comes this handsome second volume, containing “the classic story, plus questions and answers, writing tasks, research exercises, original play, historical and social backgrounds, and much more”. The illustrations include portraits of the dramatis personae, mostly adapted from late Victorian photos and pictures of appropriate-looking actors (Peter Cushing and Andre Morell as Holmes and Watson, with Rondo Hatton as Selden, John Carradine as Sir Charles, and others); plus atmospheric pictures from the period and clever...