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  With the upcoming launch of volumes 43-45 of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories we're talking to the authors involved. Today, 29th April, it's Tom Turley. Tell us a little about yourself – Where you live and your main hobbies.   Amazingly, my wife Paula and I have lived in Montgomery, Alabama for the past 23 years. We grew up in Texas and Tennessee, respectively, and met in graduate school at Vanderbilt in Nashville. I'm a retired historian and archivist, and Paula is retired from the Social Security Administration. Our grown children, Catherine and Bryan, live in western states (Colorado...

Publishers Weekly "Turley debuts with a superior collection of four interconnected novellas involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in intelligence work on behalf of the British government. In the most memorable entry, “The Adventure of the Inconvenient Heir-Apparent,” Empress Elisabeth of Austria invites Holmes to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1898 in the hope the detective can clear up the circumstances of the deaths of her son, Rudolf, and his mistress nine years earlier, a tragedy generally regarded as a murder-suicide. The solution Holmes arrives at is grounded in the political tensions roiling the Austro-Hungarian empire at the time. In “The Case...

 With the upcoming launch of volumes 43-45 of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories (currently on Kickstarter), we're talking to the authors involved. Today, the final day of the Kickstarter it's Paul Hiscock.     Tell us a little about yourself – Where you live and your main hobbies. I live in Kent, England, with my wife and two children, and run a local writing group, Novelling Kent. In addition to Sherlock Holmes adventures, I also write science fiction, fantasy and horror stories. When I am not writing or reading I also enjoy singing and playing the cornet. What’s the name of...

It's a bumper month for Sherlock Holmes audiobooks with several new titles including The New Sherlockian, Oscar Slater - A Killer Exposed, the new Sherlock Cat adventure - Thwarted Thespian (which jumps straight in at #4 in the chart) and the 2nd Sinister House book French Conundrum. Here are the bestsellers for the month with The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes topping the chart - number two, yet again near the top our bestseller over the last twelve months The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock Holmes.   1.   The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 2.   The Rediscovered Annals...

We have a review copy of the gorgeous Japanese version of 'Jeremy Brett IS Sherlock Holmes' to give away for a Japanese speaking Holmes fan based in the UK. If you'd like to be considered for a copy please complete the 'Review Copy Form'  and we'll select one lucky reader at random from the list.  The Japanese version is available from Amazon Japan  and Kinokuniya Japan and all good bookstores. The English Version is available worldwide including a wonderful audio version narrated by Sherlock Holmes actor Luke Barton.