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Several of our fans asked if we could set up a trial for the new MX Audio Collection App - so we have added a 2 day trial so you can test it out and listen to a few of your favourite interviews and stories and see if the app is for you. The trial costs $2 with a share of the proceeds going to Undershaw school for children with learning disabilities (the former home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). There's lots to choose from. For example, we're delighted to confirm the release into the app the exclusive new interview...

David Marcum After writing for a number of years, chiefly in the espionage field, Arthur Hall write a Sherlockian pastiche. And as so many have discovered before him, it’s an addition that cannot be denied – either for the writer, or those who want to read them. Fortunately, Mr. Hall is very good at it.     Over the last several years, Hall has written quite a few excellent Holmes novels, and even more Holmes short stories, all for various anthologies, mostly “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. There have been several previous collections of these, and this...

David Marcum There have been a lot of kids books related to Sherlock Holmes. There are countless variations of the adventures of the Baker Street Irregulars in various combinations. There are several series looking at the life of Young Sherlock Holmes. All serve to give young readers a sense of who Holmes is, serving as a gateway to lead them to the true Canon. This book does the same, but in a new and unique way – a Sherlockian mystery narrated by cats.     Unlike the “Basil of Baker Street” series by Eve Titus, which had Holmes and Watson-like...

David Marcum Like several other authors with unwanted time on their hands, Mike Foy used COVID lock-downs to compile this brilliant little book. Foy is already well known and respected for “The Curious Characters of Sherlock Holmes” and the multi-volume “Sherlock Holmes – A Study in Illustrations” – all massive volumes full of Canonical illustrations. In the introduction to this smaller tome, Mr. Foy explains that as he was assembling the aforementioned books, he often found himself chuckling over different illustrations, and realized that he could add humorous captions.   “The Man With the Twisted Scripts” has over 70 original...

David Marcum This, the second collection of Holmes pastiches by Nick Cardillo, is once again a treat for those who want to read about the True Holmes, set in the correct time, and with Holmes and Watson behaving correctly – as heroes. Cardillo wrote his first Holmes pastiche while still in high school – and it was soon published in a volumes of “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”. He’s since gone on to write a number of others that have appeared in various anthologies. Many of these were collected in his first well-reviewed book, “The Feats of...