Nouvelles

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Paula Hammond. What’s the name of your story/stories in this collection? I have three stories in this collection: “The Case of the Ghazi Genie”“The Case of the Covent Garden Medium”“The Case of the Bryniau Witch Tower” How did the stories come about? Watson tells us quite a lot about Holmes, but the dear doctor rarely mentions his own background, likes, and dislikes. You have to dig...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Natching Kassa. What’s the name of your story in the collection? My story is called, "The Case of the Puzzled Postman." How did the story come about? I love to read the canon and, while doing so, I realized there weren't many stories about the post. (I think the most famous story is "The Cardboard Box.") I imagined a story featuring a postman as the...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Thomas A. Turley. What’s the name of your story in the collection? My story, in Part 49, is entitled "The Adventure of the Madman's Sister." How did the story come about? The story is based on the last attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria. However, to give it a happier outcome and include a few elements history did not provide, I wrote instead about the next-to-last...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Ashley Williford.   What’s the name of your story in the collection? The Adventure of the Black Diamonds How did the story come about? My three year old little boy was enthralled with all the presents under our Christmas tree this year and continuously found sneaky little ways to abduct and open them throughout the season. I thought, “I bet Holmes was consulted to find...

The final four volumes (49-52) of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories are now on Kickstarter (click here). Every day we will be featuring one of the authors in the collection. Today its Tim Newton Anderson   What’s the name of your story in the collection? I have two stories - Phantom of the Operetta and The Second Strand How did the story come about? The Phantom came about because I was thinking about Gilbert and Sullivan and an Operetta based on Chinese rather than Japanese themes - specifically the Willow Pattern. That then added the Fu Manchu...