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Week 36 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  If you'd like to see our newest books, many of which are available pre-publication click here - New Sherlock Holmes Books Out this week is Sherlock Holmes and The Sixty Steps which got a stunning review from Publishers Weekly; "Duffy’s superb third pastiche collection (after 2015’s Sherlock Holmes and the Four Corners of Hell) perfectly captures Conan Doyle’s tone....Duffy merits comparison with Denis Smith and David Marcum, the top current authors penning new Holmes stories." Launched today on Kickstarter are: The Poisoned Penman - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London For anyone looking for an armchair holiday this year, a trip to Cornwall in the company of Holmes and Watson is always to be recommended. With author Johanna M Rieke at the helm, the duo forsakes Baker Street for a mystery that takes them deep into the heart of South-West England, pausing briefly at the lovely Lanhydrock House, described in sumptuous detail, for an account of the problem before heading out into the wider area to tackle the investigation with gusto. Throughout, Rieke’s love of history shines from the pages, touching coast and country, taking...

Ben Cardall, The Deductionist, takes a detailed look at the body language of the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.   (become like Sherlock Holmes with his how to guide 'The Monographs')  

David Marcum John Lawrence was well known before he ever ventured into the Sherlockian sandbox. With a PhD in history, he worked for nearly forty years as a top staff person in the US House of Representatives, with his final eight years there as the Chief of Staff for Speaker Nancy Pelosi. When he turned his attention to Sherlock Holmes, he hit the ground running with a reputation for excellence, and he hasn’t looked back.     The original (and pitifully few) five-dozen Canonical adventures ranged from small affairs to those with international implications, but with so few stories, only so...

David Marcum This volume, the second collection of Holmes short stories by G.C. Rosenquist, brings us ten stories about Our Heroes of Baker Street, three of which have previously appeared in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. Like his earlier volume, “The Pearl of Death”, Rosenquist writes of the True Sherlock Holmes, set in the correct time period. My personal favorite in this current collection is “The Adventure of a Thousand Stings”, in which Holmes and Watson uncover a most unusual method of murder – only to find it turned upon them as well.  Having produced two sizeable...