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Sherlock Holmes Society of London An enthralling tale, which begins by unpicking what we thought we knew about the events leading up to, and beyond, Holmes’s encounter with Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. That our heroes will continue to be challenged by Moriarty’s successors is writ large from the very start of this traditional pastiche. The central part of the plot is concerned with the murder of Joseph Healy, a well-regarded employee of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham, whose body is discovered on a bench within a privet hedge maze. As the action unfolds thick and fast, we get...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London  David Marcum’s latest volumes add sixty-two new stories to his impressive series of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. My single difficulty in reviewing them is coming up with something new to say. The foreword, “We Can But Try”, summed up better than I could why I am such a fan of these books: Marcum is rightly proud of the quantity of “True Holmes” stories his now thirty-three volumes have given the Holmesian community. What he is too humble to mention is the quality. He has compiled a huge number of authentic-feeling short pastiches which all deserve...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London The first issue of The Sherlockian was published by Magico in 1986. Intended as a regular independent journal, like Baker Street Miscellanea or The Sherlock Holmes Review, it folded after five issues, but there was good material there: articles, stories and poems from distinguished commentators, such as Catherine Cooke, David Stuart Davies, Michael Hardwick, Denis O Smith and the editor, Kelvin Jones — as well as the less celebrated, including Robert F Fleissner, George Cleve Haynes, Grant Healy, A Godfrey Hunt and, er, me. Contributions by all these are reprinted in this book, along with...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London There are fewer pages here than in Volume 1 or Volume 2, so why is this one more expensive? The answer is full-colour printing, essential to appreciating many of the pictures here. This volume introduces the work of Frederic Dorr Steele, many of whose outstanding illustrations are intended to appear in colour — and Mr Foy takes the opportunity to include photographs, paintings and drawings of Steele’s inspiration, William Gillette (he should, I think, have named the artist of the famous Vanity Fair caricature: Leslie Ward, alias ‘Spy’). Steele’s work for Collier’s, Liberty and other...

Happy New Year! We're starting 2023 with a real mix of audiobooks. Please choose UP TO THREE audiobooks from the five choices that you would like to receive codes for.  Please use the contact us form, quote #Sherlock Sunday 1st Jan and let us know which country you are from. Please check your library so you don't ask for books already have (codes are hard to re-allocate).  Canon of The Non-Sacred Writings As Holmesians are aware, the literary works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are referred to as the Canon of the Sacred Writings. The title of this collection of short stories reflects my desire to belong...