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One of the stories in the current Kickstarter campaign for The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume VIII. The Doctor and the Demon Holmes and Watson met soon after the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 with Watson still tanned from his time in the tropics yet their first canonical work that is explicitly dated is in 1887. What happened in this period – much longer than the Great Hiatus when there were apparently no cases? This work of 1882 featuring the best-known sportsmen in the world of the time reveals all for the first time and Holmes shows his extraordinary ability to...

One of the stories in the current Kickstarter campaign for The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume VIII.   A Comedy of Blackmail and Murder Are there no consequences for Holmes when he abandons Agatha, the fiancée he took up with as he investigated master blackmailer, Charles Augustus Milverton, in a work so sensational that the canonical original declined to name its year or even its decade? This work reveals the events that followed the canonical account of the death of Milverton as Holmes struggles to create a narrative that will keep him and Watson out of gaol and leave Agatha free to...

One of the stories in the current Kickstarter campaign for The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume VIII is about Moriarty.  Some Parisian Hot-Desking So what did he do? What made Professor Moriarty the Napoleon of crime? This account of events from 1899 involving an assassination attempt on a French President, a salon of dubious reputation visited by the future Edward VII, the most outré item of furniture ever created, and two women of surpassing beauty discloses why Holmes regarded Moriarty in the way that he did as he uncovers the most titillating royal and presidential scandals. Now on Kicksarter - The Redacted Sherlock...

Strand Magazine Arthur Conan Doyle was an amateur detective in real life. His most famous investigation, where he strove mightily to clear the name of George Edalji, a man accused of a series of attacks, has been fictionalized and adapted for radio, screen, and stage many times. Another prominent but less discussed investigation of his is the case of Oscar Slater, who was convicted of the 1908 murder of Marion Gilchrist, an affluent Scotch woman. Slater was accused of beating her to death and stealing her jewelry, but from the outset, he had a strong support base. As the years passed,...

Sherlock Holmes Magazine In 1896, Holmes meets Edison at the dawn of moving pictures. Murder, ghosts and mystery intertwine as Holmes and Watson navigate New York's diverse landscape alongside police chief Theodore Roosevelt. Reedsy The novel offers a fresh take on so many stock Holmes elements that could have been stale; for fans and others it is a pleasurable read.   Orlando Pearson The oh-so familiar figure of Sherlock Holmes and the world created by Arthur Conan Doyle would at first sight be a constraint on a 21st century writer.Do you write about that world as though nothing had changed...