Nouvelles

The new volumes of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories on Kickstarter this November include another huge name from the world of Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes The Baker Street Years.  Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in Europe, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled their homeland during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Brought to America as an infant, Frank attended Hollywood High School, class of 1977. He is a three-time Oscar nominated filmmaker whose feature film credits as writer/director include The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. In television, he created the hit series...

Tom Turley (Sherlockian Author) While our favorite Great Detective appears in five of these eight stories, his role is relatively minor, and his deductions (thanks to the machinations of his elder brother) miss more often than they hit. For it is Mycroft Holmes who dominates this volume, intent as always on pursuing British interests, and never more single-mindedly than here. New readers who come to Pearson from the Canon must adjust to several facts.  First, his stories carry on into the 1940s, with the Holmes brothers and Watson (whatever Baring-Gould may say) solving cases in their nineties. More importantly, Mycroft—who,...

There is a new leader on the chart - well, a new collection from an old leader. Caiden Cooper Myles is back with his third collection and a very fast start to take the top spot from 2026's top selling collection from Bill DeFeo. The new leadership may be short lived however as Bill's third collection - Hearthside at Baker Street came out a few days before the end of the month and has already climbed to #16.  A very strong showing from newcomer Gustavo Bondi at number 4 and Ken Courtenay remains the bestselling novelist with both of his...

Margaret Walsh (Holmes Author) I received a copy of “this book”The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes III” by Caiden Cooper Myles from MX Publishing to review. As the title suggests, this is the third book of his Sherlock Holmes short stories. Caiden Cooper Myles has delivered the goods once again. Six excellent stories with the flavour of Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are each distinct, but are linked together by the thread of a common enemy. Holmes and Watson are well written and very much in character. Something that is very important to me. A fantastic read. Highly recommended.  ...

Tom Turley (Sherlockian Author) Having dealt with most of “the Immortals” (e.g., Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Sinclair Lewis) in his American Literati series of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, Daniel D. Victor has lately turned to lesser-known—but still engaging—authors such as Frank Norris, Julian Hawthorne, and Anna Katharine Green. Here his subject is Carolyn Wells, who wrote almost two hundred mysteries and other works between 1896 and 1942. Many featured Fleming Stone, her stand-in for the Great Detective. In Victor’s latest book, as always, Dr. Watson presents the factual case (1906) behind Wells’ novel The Disappearance of Kimball Webb (1909), the only...