Nouvelles

David Marcum I first became aware of Martin Daley when he wrote his Sherlock Holmes novel “The Adventure of the Spanish Drums”, which included Inspector Cornelius Armstrong. Daley later became a regular and valued contributor to “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”, and then he published four volumes of Inspector Armstrong’s adventures.   Now, with “The Selected Cases of Doctor Watson”, he presents a collection of new and previously published material, all written with the same level of excellence that we’ve come to expect. This handsome volume contains eleven wonderful Holmes adventures, and true Sherlockians who appreciate the...

Reedsy Une lecture agréable sur certaines des nombreuses aventures de Sherlock Holmes (4/5 étoiles). Sherlock Holmes – Éliminez l'impossible est un roman passionnant qui compile six courts mystères dans une collection complète de nouveaux contes amusants de Sherlock Holmes. Dans Le mystère du Bleeding Heart , Holmes et Watson visitent la taverne du Bleeding Heart et découvrent les secrets du Londres médiéval. Dans Dans l'affaire de l'impossible assassin , ils se retrouvent mêlés à un stratagème politique après l'assassinat de deux conseillers turcs. Dans Dans L'aventure de la momie de Cable Street , Holmes prend possession des restes momifiés du Shadwell Slaughterer, un meurtrier...

David Marcum The late Kelvin Jones was a Sherlockian legend, a shining beacon for decades, and it was always a thrill to read his Sherlockian scholarship and his pastiches. I first ran across his name in the 1980’s, when his scholarly monographs were on my yearly Christmas lists. Following his numerous masterful analyses of various specialized topics, he turned his attention to writing Holmes pastiches – which particularly caught my interest. But he never stopped his pursuit of the scholarly side of Sherlockiana, as shown in his volumes of The Criminal World of Sherlock Holmes. Now, with the third and final book,...

David Marcum Daniel D. Victor has been writing Holmes pastiches since the early 1990’s – first a novel, “The Seventh Bullet” (1992), and then a number of short stories (many in “The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories”). But he truly found his Inner Watson with his literary-themed Holmes novels (his “Sherlock Holmes and the American Literati” series). Now he returns with his next entry, wherein Holmes and Watson meet Hamlin Garland, the “Dean of American Letters” – and it’s no surprise that Garland has a case which only Sherlock Holmes can solve. And like many of Victor’s other...

David Marcum With “The Magician’s Trunk”, Dan Andriacco returns with his thirteenth volume of exceptional stories narrated by Jeff Cody regarding that unique larger-than-life detective Sebastian McCabe. – and counting the earlier short story collection “Murderer’s Row”, there are even more stories than that! Andriacco is writing Golden Age Whodunnits set in modern Erin, Ohio, and with each new adventure, we learn more about these Heroes and their interesting little city. In this volume, we find out more about McCabe and Cody’s backgrounds – about a mentor for one, and a woman out of the past for the other. It’s wonderful to...