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I wasn’t sure what to expect with Mr. Nick Reekie’s new edition of “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. I have annotated versions of “The Hound”, and comic versions, and several very different editions that have actual physical clues tucked into the books, but this is something new and wonderful – a book that reinvigorates the original text by providing new images, and faces to go with names. What makes it even more fun is how these images are tied to past “Hound” films, particularly the 1959 version starring Peter Cushing – but it’s so much more. There are photos of...

David Marcum From an initial dip into pastiche writing with a single Holmes short story, Arthur Hall has become one of the more productive pasticheurs in later years. He went on to write several self-published Holmes novels before being recruited to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. Since then, he’s produced many new adventures, and each set of MX anthologies typically has multiple contributions from Mr. Hall. “Sherlock Holmes: The Experience Club” is his seventh Holmes novel, and it jumps into the action when Holmes and Watson are recruited into investigating what may be a series of murders....

David Marcum Sherlockian Pasticheur and scholar Chris Chan first appeared on the scene just a few years ago, but since then he’s steadily made a name for himself both in the analysis of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, as seen in his 2020 book Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia”, and when literary-agenting new Holmes adventures – usually in anthologies by the leaders in Sherlockian publishing, MX Publishing and Belanger Books. Now those short stories have been collected in his new book, Of Course He Pushed Him. The title comes from one of the six...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London Jim Ballinger attended meetings of the Society when he was lecturing at King’s College, London, and he occasionally entertained us with his canonical ditties. He’s now back in his native Canada, but this handsome large-format book is a good reminder of his talent to amuse — and an invitation to perform the songs for ourselves. Here’s a musical synopsis of each of the sixty stories, plus one song, “Lasting Impressions”, that sums up the eternal attraction of Holmes and Watson. As the blurb says: “The music encompasses a variety of styles from generic trad rock...

Week 29 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2022  This weeks news: 1. Kickstarters 2. Free Audiobooks  3. Audio App 4. New Books 1. Kickstarters There are three Kickstarters running at the moment including books from Terry Colledge and Tim Symonds and Sherlock Holmes advent calendars... Sherlock Holmes on Kickstarter   2. Free Audiobooks A very exciting week as we have 4 brand new books released so 4 books for everyone!  Please remember to post a rating of the book and a short review if possible as reviews and ratings go to help fund our free audiobook programme. Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 137...