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Book Review - The Complete Thorndyke

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Book Review - The Complete Thorndyke

Canadian Holmes - Fall 2021 Editor David Marcum has brought together the entire Thorndyke collection. This nine-volume set covers 21 novels and over 40 short stories. Written by Richard Austin Freeman, the first Dr. Thorndyke story was printed 20 years after A Study in Scarlet, yet owes a tip of the hat to Conan Doyle, and Sherlock Holmes. 36 Canadian Holmes - Fall 2021 Tall, thin and aquiline there can be no doubt after whom Freeman modeled his medical doctor, who turned to the bar and became one of the first forensic scientists. These often hard-to-find stories are now easily...

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 36

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 36

Week 36 - All the best in new Sherlock Holmes content... 1. Offers 2. New Books 3. Free Audiobooks  4. Events 5. Kickstarters   1. OFFERS Just $5 is back - one book each week for just five bucks. The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume 6  (RRP $14.95) Orlando Pearson presents five more scandalously entertaining stories in his well-known Redacted Sherlock Holmes series (six short story books and a new novel coming in November so far...) - A Perilous Engagement: Mycroft Holmes and a Whitehall whitewash;- Death at Tennis: The hunt for the lady who fled the ball;- An Encirclement Thwarted: Espionage...

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Mystery Scene Readers Competition - Win $100 of Sherlock Holmes Books

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To celebrate the launch of David Marcum's Sherlock Holmes and The Eye of Heka, Mystery Scene readers are being invited to a chance to win $100 worth of Sherlockian tales from MX Publishing, the home of the largest Sherlock Holmes catalog in the world, with more than 400 Sherlock Holmes novels, biographies, graphic novels and short story collections. Marcum, the author and editor of more Holmes stories than anyone in history, has been called the "reigning monarch of all things Sherlockian," by John Lescroart and "today's greatest Sherlockian writer," by Lee Child.  To enter, simply sign up to our newsletter on the bottom of...

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 35

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday Offers Week 35

Week 35 - All the best in new Sherlock Holmes content... 1. Offers 2. New Books 3. Free Audiobooks  4. Events 5. Kickstarters   1. OFFERS Just $5 is back - get the first book in the Romanovs series. The Secret Journal of Dr Watson (RRP $18.95) On the most secret and dangerous assignment of their lives, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are sent into the newborn Soviet Union to rescue The Romanovs: Nicholas and Alexandra and their innocent children. Will Holmes and Watson be able to change history? Will they even be able to survive? Book Review "The narrative carries you...

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Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Ghost Machine

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Book Review - Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of The Ghost Machine

Reedsy Overall, if you're a fan of the classic detective I have a feeling you'll want to give David MacGregor's Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Ghost Machine a try. He does a wonderful job of bringing everyone and everything to life and he's able to keep everything moving right along (more).     London: November 1905. England and the world are changing. Into the rooms of Sherlock Holmes come Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison-with new inventions that will alter the course of human history-only both inventions have gone missing.  Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler somehow unravel the latest diabolical scheme of Marie Chartier...

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