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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers 2022 - Week 9

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers 2022 - Week 9

Week 9 - 75 more audiobooks to give away... Ukraine Donations 1. New Books (get them pre-publication)   2. Free Audiobooks  3. Audio App -  Spring 20% lifetime discount 4. Sherlock Holmes Book Club - Now includes audio 5. Kickstarter 6. Offers   Ukraine Donations As most of our fans know, MX Publishing is a social enterprise supporting several causes. Yesterday we donated £500 to the Red Cross fund for Ukraine and are matching author and fan donations on our Facebook page up to another £500 - MX Publishing Facebook.   1. New Books As many of you will know, one of the benefits...

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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere - MX Interviews

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I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere - MX Interviews

The world's leading Sherlockian podcast, IHOSE has over the years interviewed several MX writers. The latest is David Macgregor in episode 235. Here's a list with links to the MX team interviews over the years   Episode 235: The Hero with a Thousand Faces - David MacGregor David was also interviewed in episode 140.   Episode 211: Dear Holmes - Richard Ryan   Episode 199: Sherlockian Dynamo - David Marcum   Episode 195: MX Publishing - Steve Emecz   Episode 191: Sherlockian Musings - Sheldon Goldfarb   Episode 151: Memoirs from Mrs. Hudson's Kitchen - Wendy Heyman-Marsaw   Episode 142: The...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Sherlock Holmes and The Pandemic of Death

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Sherlock Holmes and The Pandemic of Death

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Daniel D Victor is a prolific writer of Holmesian pastiche, whose output has a distinct tendency towards literary connections, and this is the seventh book on that theme. As is so frequently the case, it is based on a manuscript found in that evidently huge, and seemingly inexhaustible, despatch box in the vaults of Cox and Co. I will not do anything to spoil the plot for you, since it is an enjoyable read in many different ways. Not only are there literary characters involved, but medical ones too, and accordingly this book is both...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Don’t Go Into the Cellar Mr. Holmes

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Don’t Go Into the Cellar Mr. Holmes

David Marcum Jonathan Goodwin is an acclaimed actor, noted for his association with the “Don’t Go Into the Cellar” theatre company, in which “[t]he Victorian and Edwardian eras’ finest chillers and thrillers live again! [The] theatre company bring[s] new adaptations of nineteenth-century literature’s greatest ghost and horror stories to modern-day audiences at venues across the U.K.” Sadly, with the onset of the COVID pandemic, these performances were abruptly limited. But Mr. Goodwin adapted. Instead of live performances, he began to offer online performances, often in conjunction with MX Publishing. And along the way, he produced several scripts which have now...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Mrs Hudson Goes To Paris

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Mrs Hudson Goes To Paris

David Marcum Over the last few years, Susan Knight has shown herself to be a first-class Sherlockian writer. Her traditional Canonical Sherlockian adventures appear regularly in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”, always raising the bar of excellence. But she’s also known for her Mrs. Hudson novels. These two previous adventures, “Mrs. Hudson Investigates” and “Mrs. Hudson Goes to Ireland” are now joined by a third, “Mrs. Hudson Goes to Paris” – much longer than the first two – and well worth every extra page to tell a fascinating story. People who think they know Sherlock Holmes simply...

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