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David Marcum In recent years, Arthur Hall has been one of the most prolific pasticheurs around – when he hears the call for a new Holmes anthology, not only does he answer, but he answers with multiple stories. “The Additional Investigations of Sherlock Holmes” is his third collection, following “Tales from the Annals of Sherlock Holmes” and “Further Little Known Cases of Sherlock Holmes” – along with seven Holmes novels (and counting). This book contains seven adventures, all previously published in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. Mr. Hall has been a great supporter of this series, whose...

David Marcum In “Sherlock Holmes and the Crystal Palace Murder” the fifth novel by Johanna Rieke (of a reported six) to be published by Sherlockian publishing juggernaut MX, we explore Holmes’s Great Hiatus, following his battle with Professor Moriarty – and then what occurred after, when he returned to London.   While there are several places where the translations from German to English are a bit awkward, these can be overlooked when one is lost in the excitement and momentum of the story. There is one more Rieke novel that still hasn’t been translated into English, and I cannot wait...

David Marcum It’s hard to believe that Paul Gilbert’s first set of pastiches, “The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes”, was published all the way back in 2007. For many of us, when considering all that has happened since, that was a lifetime ago. I was fortunate to find a copy back then in two different editions – the original hardcover, and also a large-print edition. Mr. Gilbert has since gone on to write a number of Holmes short story collections, anthology contributions, and novels – but for many readers, this first collection has remained either elusive or impossible to obtain...

David Marcum Sherlock Holmes had clients and interactions from all walks of life – kings and beggars, rich and poor, and everyone in between. Among those were the literati – and from his first Holmes novel, “The Seventh Bullet” (1992), Daniel Victor has had an interest in showing these meetings. His first novel dealt with the murder of reporter David Graham Phillips, and the most recent, “The Fateful Arrow”, chronicles Holmes and Watson’s meeting with the (now little-known) American mystery writer, Anna Katherine Greene. Set in 1890, Holmes and Watson are visited by Greene, who has just witnessed a brutal...

David Marcum Margaret Walsh has written three well-received Sherlock Holmes novels, “The Molly Boy Murders”, “The Case of the Perplexed Politician”, and “The Case of the London Dock Deaths”. Along the way, she’s also been contributing a number of fine pastiches to several recent Holmes anthologies. Now, in this volume (before her next novel is ready), she has collected them – to the great appreciation of those who haven’t had the chance to previously read them, or for those who are glad to revisit them once again. The title story, “The Bloody Duck” is an excellent adventure which begins in...