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Every Sunday we're going to celebrate a Sherlock Holmes author with free audiobook codes and a half-price offer on all their books.  This week it's prolific editor and writer David Marcum, who holds the record for the most amount of Sherlock Holmes stories written (now 100) and Sherlock Holmes edited (over 700). Fill in our contact form with your choice of David's audiobooks (below) letting us know which country you are in - and use the code marcum50 to get 50% off any of his books (minimum 3 books) from our David Marcum collection - code valid until Friday 21st October....

Week 41 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  Out this week in print are: The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes - Terry Golledge Scarlett Holmes, Sister of Sherlock - Contrarian - Lawrence Stribling Hidden Fires - Jane Rubino    Free Audiobooks One brand new book this week - Sherlock Holmes and The Sixty Steps which Publishers Weekly called "Duffy’s superb third pastiche collection". Please remember to post a rating of the book and a short review if possible as reviews and ratings go to help fund our free audiobook programme. Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 146 and let us know which country you...

"Of the hundreds of Sherlock Holmes pastiche mysteries available to the Sherlockian, very few can match this book for a depth of historical research, finely crafted sentences and paragraphs, and a heart-stopping thrill of a story. Ms. Altabef takes the reader on a journey during the great hiatus and brings Sherlock Holmes to New York state where he is led to investigate that horrifying world of the insane asylums of that day. The characters she creates--especially that of the child, Rachel--are distinct, colorful, and memorable. The plot builds through incident after dangerous incident, culminating with a frantic climax. A great...

Week 40 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  Out this week in print are: The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes - Terry Golledge Scarlett Holmes, Sister of Sherlock - Contrarian - Lawrence Stribling Hidden Fires - Jane Rubino  ...plus several of the Sherlock Holmes campaigns on Kickstarter are coming to a close this week.   Free Audiobooks A choice of four books from our catalogue this week - please let us know which you would like. Please remember to post a rating of the book and a short review if possible as reviews and ratings go to help fund our free audiobook programme. Please use the contact us...

Back in the 1980s there was a magazine called 'The Sherlockian' which ran to six editions. The originals are now very sought after and rare and exist mainly in private collections.  (many thanks to David Marcum for sharing a photo of his copies) Produced by Magico Magazine and edited by Kelvin Jones the material included essays and stories by leading Sherlockians in the UK, USA and Canada. Contributors included the renowned radio writer, Michael Hardwick, Godfrey Hunt, Michael Kean, Catherine Cooke, crime writer David Stuart Davies, and that doyen of pastiche writers, Denis O Smith, George Cleve Haynes, Kelvin I Jones...