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Sherlockian Interview - Dorothy Ellen Palmer

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Sherlockian Interview - Dorothy Ellen Palmer

In a fascinating interview and engaging Q&A with fans from all around the world, Canadian author Dorothy Ellen Palmer talks about bringing disability into the Sherlock Holmes canon. Her book, Wiggins: Son of Sherlock has received excellent reviews.     Wiggins: Son of Sherlock is available from: Amazon USA       Book Depository (free worldwide shipping) Amazon Canada   Barnes and Noble     Amazon UK    Audio   Kindle “Wiggins is full of surprises, pulling us back into the world of 221B from an entirely original angle - as if Palmer had found a secret hiding space even the Great Detective had never...

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 43

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 43

Week 43 - All the best in new Sherlock Holmes content... 1. Offers  2. New Books 3. Free Audiobooks  4. Events 5. Kickstarters 6. Holiday Ideas   1. OFFERS As we're past our guaranteed shipping date pre-xmas for regular books, we'll focus in November on local offers. UK - Clearance Bundle - $50 worth of books for $10 USA - Conan Doyle Notes - $28.95 first edition for $10 (use code 'CONAN')  2. NEW BOOKS out this week... Two epic launches this week: The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes (David Marcum) Amazon USA     Book Depository Five volumes (so far) collecting the writings of David Marcum. Available...

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Top eight Sherlock Holmes Audio books in November so far

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1.  Sherlock Holmes: The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Volume 2 – David MacGregor and J.T. McDaniel 1.  The Untold Adventures of Sherlock Holmes –Luke Kuhns and Joff Manning 2.  Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Soufflé – David MacGregor and Christopher Power 3.   A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories – Jay Ganguly and Kevin E Green 4.  Sherlock Holmes and the Scarlet Thread of Murder – Luke Kuhns and Joff Manning 5.  Sherlock’s Home – The Empty House – Steve Emecz and Joff Manning 6.  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Pigtail Twist – M J H Simmonds and Joff Manning 7.  Sherlockian Stories and Studies – Gayle Lange Puhl and...

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Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Books - November So Far

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Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Books - November So Far

As we head towards the holidays, November is the biggest month for books in the year. It's always interesting to see which are the bestselling books in print in the first ten days of the month. 1-3. Not a surprise, the latest volumes of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holme Stories officially out on the 28th November (XXVIII, XXIX and XXX) are already topping the charts. As they are Christmas adventures too (the last volume to cover that was Volume V which has been a long standing bestseller). 4. Close behind is the new novel from Orlando Pearson (Redacted...

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Book Review - Three May Keep A Secret - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

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Book Review - Three May Keep A Secret - A Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Publishers Weekly At the start of Ryan’s solid sixth Sherlock Holmes adventure (after 2020’s Through a Glass Starkly), Holmes is irked to get a note from a stranger, Ralph Prescott, imperiously announcing that he will be at Baker Street that afternoon and expects the detective to be available. Instead, Holmes takes Watson shopping, but when the pair return they find Prescott dead in their sitting room of what appears to be strychnine poisoning, based on the victim’s contorted facial muscles. The clientless murder inquiry leads to a probe of possibly widespread art fraud that threatens the reputation of the South Kensington...

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