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Sherlock Holmes Society of London Alistair Duncan’s Eliminate the Impossible was a very good start, and Close to Holmes confirmed him as a truly important writer in our field. In The Norwood Author he illuminated, as no previous biographer had, an essential period in the life of Conan Doyle, when Sherlock Holmes leapt to international fame – and his creator killed him. Now An Entirely New Country: Arthur Conan Doyle, Undershaw and the Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes throws light on the drama of the years that followed, when Conan Doyle and his family lived in Undershaw, the house he’d had built at Hindhead, where conditions were favourable for his invalid wife Louise. Hindhead was...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London “The Shoso-in Bulletin, published in English between 1991 and 2004, was the most truly international Holmesian periodical of all. It was founded by our distinguished Japanese member Hirayama Yuichi, whose own contributions alone justified the Bulletin’s existence. East Wind Coming: A Sherlockian Study Book by Yuichi Hirayama and John Hall gathers twenty-eight of Dr Hirayama’s essays, from The Shoso-in Bulletin, The Baker Street Journal, The Ritual and elsewhere, along with four written jointly with a leading English Holmesian, John Hall. Yuichi has discovered, in a Japanese detection manual of 1940, the simple means by which Holmes determined the direction Herr Heidegger’s bicycle travelled on the moor. In...

Week 26 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  This weeks news: 1. June Offer 2. Free Audiobooks  3. Audio App 4. New Books 1. June Offer  Last few days of the 5 books 50% off... June Promo   2. Free Audiobooks Three free audiobooks this week - including the brand new release 'Shadowblood' - if you already have one of them please let us know which one you would like. Please remember to post a rating of the book and a short review if possible. Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 134 and let us know which country you are from.   ...

Reedsy  What's odd about the Experience Club? Find out with the greatest sleuth ever who solves another case of national importance! Let me begin by saying that I had a wonderful time reading this book. It is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery. The story begins with an account of not one but three apparently unconnected murders. But there is someone who thinks the murders are connected and has started to dig into the lives of the victims. What happens next is an attempt of the life of the nosy Parker who manages to escape but cannot continue with the case. He...

The Cherry on Top 🍒 While not a matter of pure Haggard concern, the news I want to share now is “close enough for government work,” I believe.  My Haggard trilogy of pastiches (one with SHE’s Leo Vincey and Horace Holly and the other two with Allan Quatermain and Hans) has attained an exciting new milestone. They have been recorded for Audible audiobook distribution, two of which are available now. In my view, the dramatic renderings provided by reader Michael Langan are top-notch and sometimes bring tears to my own eyes. The pleasure I feel from this accomplishment is best...