One of the great things about Holmesian pastiche writers is their ability to find problems for their favorite detective almost anywhere. Today’s author reveals one of the most interesting source for an idea that I’ve encountered yet, and does something that not one of my interviewees has done in the five years this blog has been around: he adds (and answers) a question of his own!  Read on, and then pick up a copy of  The Stone of Destiny. It releases on June 5th and should be available online, as well as in select bookshops–Manhattan’s Mysterious Bookshop among them.

An Interview with Richard T. Ryan:

How did you “meet” Sherlock Holmes?

I was a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame. One of the men in my dorm had a large book under his arm. When I asked him what it was, he replied, “The Complete Sherlock