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Reedsy This new collection of Sherlock Holmes and his ghostly adventures are bound to entertain the reader for hours. If ever you needed to be afraid of a ghost, Lady Juliet Armstrong, Baroness Crestwell is the one I'd steer clear of. Not that she is scary in a ghostly manner, but don't think you'd get away with murder when she's around. The fact that she is a bit of sidekick to the legendary Sherlock Holmes, should make any prospective murderer stop dead (yes, the pun is intended) in their tracks. After successfully bringing the perpetrator who did her in to...

Publishers Weekly Review of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Volume XXXI where two of Terry's tales appear: "Terry Golledge (1920–1996), whose stories were unpublished during his lifetime, stands out with two entries, “The Grosvenor Square Furniture Van” and “The Case of the Woman at Margate,” both based on Dr. Watson’s references to unpublished investigations. The latter is an exemplar of cleverly building on the slimmest of narrative reeds—a single sentence about the absence of powder on a woman’s face." Reedsy A great set of adventures of the classic Sherlock Holmes that will have the reader wondering how he...

You've go to hand it to Ben Cardall 'The Deductionist' - he does try and find inventive and scary ways to test his deduction skills. For his 100th episode he decided that immersing himself in an ice bath would be a novel new test. Now, he's a muscly chap, so he had a little trouble finding something big enough to fill with ice that he would fit in - so cue the Wheelie Bin....!

It's a statistic that's been flying around the internet and publishing circles throughout September following some revelations in PRH/SS merger trial in the USA. Whilst it seems to be incorrect (it seems to be about 15% which in itself is still pretty scary), the actual statistics from the industry experts are very revealing.  The real nugget for us here is that 66% of titles released by the biggest publishers with their large marketing budgets and muscle (Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Disney, Macmillan, Abrams, Sourcebooks, and John Wiley) seem to sell less than the...

Week 39 - 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 - the 50% off all new 2022 books offer runs until the end of September... Out this week in print are: The 11th book in the internationally acclaimed 'McCabe and Cody' series from Dan Andriacco 'The English Garden Mystery'. This is one of the longest running series of modern mysteries based on the Holmes and Watson format. There are now eleven novels and two short story collections based in a small town in Ohio. To celebrate, we're offering...