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“Normally, the part I like least about a Sherlock Holmes pastiche is the inevitable “how I found the manuscript” story. Many of them are so farfetched as to be ludicrous. That is not the case here. The story is believable once the nature of the tale is discovered. It is indeed one that might have been totally inappropriate for the day and age. Having them hidden in 221B is a plus as well as being marked “REJECT” from the Strand magazine! Brilliant!…

I give the book five stars plus, and look forward to more by this author!”

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Sherlock Holmes and The Musical Murders is available from all good bookstores includingThe Strand Magazine,  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository. In ebook format it is in Amazon Kindle,  Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

“This book contains two two-part stories and an additional eight short stories. The stories vary in length, pacing and plot, yet I feel they all have been well written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

They introduce a new Scotland Yard contact in the person of Superintendant Shershay. Unlike Lestrade who has to be pushed into accepting Holmes’ solutions, Superintendant Shershay makes Holmes’ ideas the working hypothesis. Holmes must be proven wrong for Shershay, while with Lestrade Holmes is the last resort for a detective who feels superior.

The stories also include a new antagonist, Moriarty’s protégée Tresscot-Jones, a man who appears multiple times in these stories…

I give the book five stars!”

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Sherlock Holmes Plays the Game is available from all good bookstores including   Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .In ebook format it is in Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

 

“The story builds nicely and is well plotted and written. The final reveal was a bit of a shock, but that means the author has succeeded in his effort to conceal the mystery until just the right moment! I will give this excellent work five stars!”

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Golem’s Shadow is available from all good bookstores including The Strand Magazine,  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .In ebook format it is in Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

“A book worth waiting for!

This solid volume, subtitled “A Biographical Companion of Sherlock Holmes’s Contemporaries”, contains over 800 one-paragraph descriptions of individuals who were well known in the times of Holmes and Dr. Watson. This will be an invaluable tool for readers seeing an unknown name while reading the Canon, as well as those who wish to add something extra while “editing” some more of Watson’s notes for modern publication.

I wish that I’d had this book decades ago. I discovered the Holmes Canon in 1975 when I acquired an abridged copy of “The Adventures” from a friend in a trade. Not long after, I borrowed ahead on my allowance to buy a complete Doubleday edition. I devoured it, but there were many references in the original stories that could have been made much clearer to that ten-year-old me if I’d had this book.

There have been numerous other books that list characters from the Canon, including Michael Hardwick’s “The Sherlock Holmes Companion” and his “The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes”, along with Molly Carr’s “A Sherlock Holmes Who’s Who”. This book excellently elaborates on individuals that weren’t directly involved in Holmes’s cases, but were still easily identified in Our Heroes’ times. My only regret is that this book, which lists so many important people of that era, leaves out two of the most important, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, men who are arguably more real – at least to me – than any of the other 800 listed.”

Reviewed by David Marcum

Lives Beyond Baker Street is available from all good bookstores including The Strand Magazine, Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK and for free shipping worldwideBook Depository.