Thank Holmes It's Friday - Jan 31st 2025
It's time again - Thank Holmes It's Friday! This week, immerse yourself in a stunning array of brand-new titles and explore our exciting new projects on Kickstarter, each packed with exclusive rewards that are simply unmatched anywhere else. Get ready to uncover what's new.
TRENDING ON KICKSTARTER
The Business of Baker Street - Five Sherlock Holmes Cases
Step into the thrilling world of 19th Century London and experience the fog, the mystery, and the unforgettable duo of Holmes and Watson as they weave through brilliant deductions and intricate plots. This book by new Holmes author, William P. Defeo radiates the essence of Arthur Conan Doyle's genius, inviting you to immerse yourself in five captivating stories. An innocent bank clerk driven to desperation by an ominous death threat, a viciously cruel and calculating barrister, a brilliant but hopelessly drug-addicted scientist, a heartless woman obsessed with building a personal fortune, and a man torn between the loyalties of his past and the duties of his present - all these characters move across the Baker Street stage, finding peace, or prison, or death.
Back this latest Kickstarter project to secure your pre-publication copy and delight in other exclusive rewards such as signed copies, digital editions and Holmes Anthology Megapacks.
OTHER NEW TITLES TO EXPLORE
2025 has burst onto the scene with several new titles now available for order. And here’s the best part: they’re included in our amazing 3 for 2 offer, giving you a fabulous selection of over 70 captivating titles - all relatively new releases. Just enter promo code "2024new" at checkout.
- Sherlock Holmes Far And Wide by Gretchen Altabef
- Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery of The Faceless Corpse by Dan Victor
- A Man Named Baskerville by Jim Nelson
- Sherlock Holmes and The Deathly Clairvoyant by Margaret Walsh
- The Curious Cases of Sherlock Holmes Volume Three and Four by Steve Herczeg
GRAB A FREE DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION STUDY BOOK
Step into the captivating world of "A Study In Illustrations", where the late Mike Foy meticulously selected the finest illustrations from the Sherlock Holmes canon and beyond. Volume one is a stunning homage to Sidney Paget's incredible artwork - and guess what? It’s yours to download for free. Just enter promo code 'FoyFREE' at checkout.
SNAG SOME FREE AUDIOBOOKS TOO!
If you are truly passionate about reviewing and sharing your love of Sherlock Holmes books, then we warmly invite you to claim your complimentary reviewer copies!
The Improbable Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Nick Cardillo (NEW)
One Deadly Souk (Code Name Delta Book 3) by Oscar Ortiz (non Sherlock Holmes) (NEW)
Sherlock Holmes and the Crowned Heads of Europe by Thomas A Turley
Sherlock Holmes and the Affair of the Contentious Contralto by Fiona-Jane Brown
To claim your free audiobooks just tell us the titles you'd like and within a few days your free codes and download link will appear in your inbox.
SHERLOCKIAN PUZZLE OF THE WEEK
Question: First Lines: Can you identify the Sherlock Holmes story these first lines come from?
1. Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece
and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
2. I had intended “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” to be the last
of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should
ever communicate to the public…
3. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings,
save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
4. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and
predominates the whole of her sex.
5. In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the
University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
6. “I am inclined to think—” said I.
7. Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long,
thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a
particularly malodorous product.
8. It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the
last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my
friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished.
9. “I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we
sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
10. During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life.
You'll find the answers to these questions on our dedicated Shurdle Puzzle page, along with earlier puzzles you may have missed. If puzzles ignite your passion, then Paul Elgood's 'Shurdle', awaits you. Dive into its pages to discover exclusive puzzles and challenges designed to expand your thinking beyond our weekly newsletters.
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