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The Sherlock Holmes Society of London The Redacted Sherlock Holmes: The Stage Plays contains six, though both “A Case of Complex Identity” and “The Bruce-Partington Diptych” dramatise a canonical adventure and give it a non-canonical sequel. Mycroft Holmes’s diplomatic intrigue is to the fore in “The Sleeper’s Cache”, which follows “The Bruce-Partington Plans”, and in “A Perilous Engagement”, whose main characters include a Miss Jean Leckie.   “A Scandal in Nova Alba” takes Shakespeare’s Scottish play in a different direction. “The Baron of Wimbledon” links the pre-war German tennis star Gottfried von Cramm, who defied the Nazis and suffered for...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Sherlock Cat and the Missing Mousie by Heather Edwards, illustrated by Amanda Downs is, of course, aimed at young readers. Spot and Fluffy live with five-year-old Mary and her parents. Having listened to Mary’s father reading stories of the great detective, Spot reckons that he’s cut out to be a feline Sherlock, with Fluffy as his faithful Watson.   His first experiments cause some disruption, but he settles in to the rôle, and decides to investigate the unusual happenings next door. The ensuing adventures are exciting and funny, enhanced by the attractive illustrations. The lines...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London  In his introduction, Mattias Boström describes himself as an “embracer” of Holmes in his many forms, and issues the invitation to “shake up Sherlock”. In The Keys of Death, Holmes, if not shaken, is certainly stirred into life. Taken from the perspective of journal entries by Mrs Hudson, Dr Watson and others, we start with a mysterious and lamented death. This leads us into the introduction of the fledgling consulting detective and his soon-to-be landlady. Watson soon joins the gathering at Baker Street, paralleling the events of A Study in Scarlet. This telling, however, presents...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Mike Foy's second book of Sherlockian illustrations has been a real eye-opener for me as it has exposed me to artists whose work I had seen (and some I had not) but didn't really appreciate. The book is best described as post-Paget. It is covering artists both UK and international that were working on Holmes at the same time as Sidney Paget or after as a direct result of his death. The one that amused me the most was Richard Gutschmidt who worked for German publications and seems to have spent a lot of his...

Week 25 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022 Four brand new books out this week and a new audiobook out today as one of our free audiobooks.  19th June - The Adventure of the Bloody Duck and other tales of Sherlock Holmes - Margaret Walsh 22nd June - Sissy Holmes and The Case of The Dead Hypnotist (Orange Pip Books) - Mary Stojak 23rd June - Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 and 2 - Chris Chan 26th June - Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Jeweled Falcon and Other Stories - Gregg Rosenquist   This weeks news: 1. June Offer 2. Free...