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Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Sixty Steps

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Sherlock Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Sixty Steps

Reedsy The adventures are set up to allow the reader to unravel the clues, and solve the crimes along with Sherlock. Holmes and Watson embark on a series of adventures that lead them to solve the murder of Sir Henry Baskerville, whom they had previously helped to solve his attempted murder, and now are faced to solve his actual murder, and how the past has eventually caught up to him. Each adventure showcases the inner workings of Sherlock, and even his near-failures. Intricately examining the clues, following sources, and trying to understand the psyche of the killers in order to...

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022 - Week 17

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022 - Week 17

Week 17 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022   Join us this Saturday for 'Sherlock Holmes The Poet And His Muse' a new stage performance with Dracula award winner Jonathan Goodwin playing Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes - adapted from an Orlando Pearson story from The Redacted Sherlock Holmes.   This weeks news: 1. Free Audiobooks  2. Audio App 3. New Books   For fans in the UK why not try our Mystery Books Bundle - $50 worth of books fo $10...   Out this week (30th April) - The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume VII   1. Free Audiobooks This week we are...

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022 - Week 16

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022 - Week 16

Week 16 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022   1. Free Audiobooks  2. Audio App 3. New Books   It's the last few days for two great campaigns running on Kickstarter....    Some interesting recent blog articles: Mystery Tribune 106 Best Sherlock Holmes Books For Avid Fans: 2022 Edition Top 10 Audiobooks in April so far   1. Free Audiobooks This week we are offering a choice of up to three free books (if you don't have them please feel free to ask for all three). Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 125 and let us know which country you are from and...

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Top 10 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in April so far

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Top 10 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in April so far

1.   Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Beer Barons – Chris James and Steve Davison Smith 2.   Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ruby Elephants – Chris James and Dominic Lopez 3.   Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Legacy – David Ruffle and Andy Barker 4.   The Dramatic Moment of Fate – Alexandra Kitty and J.T. McDaniel 5.   A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories – Jay Ganguly and Kevin E Green 6.   Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of Grinning Cat – Joseph W Svec III and Anthony LeRoy Lovato 7.   The Further Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes – Volume 1 – Denis O. Smith and Kevin E Green 8.   The Monographs – Ben Cardall and...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes

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Sherlock Book Reviews - The Lighter Side of Sherlock Holmes

David Marcum I discovered this book very late. It was originally published in 2013, but in my quest to acquire all traditional Sherlockian pastiches (and most of the scholarship as well), I let this one slide by – a mistake on my part, which I’m glad has been corrected. Mr. Schatell was friends with a number of Sherlockians, and was clearly a very knowledgeable Sherlockian himself. This can be observed in the nearly 300-pages of collected cartoons and sketches collected here. The author’s son, Glenn Schatell, indicates in his foreword that his father had hoped to publish these drawings in...

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