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Review of Sherlock Holmes – Tangled Skeins by David Marcum

16 Jul

“I thoroughly enjoyed all five of the stories in the ‘Tangled Skeins’. All very different but all have the same A.C.Doyle magic woven into them by the author. David Marcum captures the real feel of London and it’s populace during the period when Holmes was practicing and also beyond, when in retirement. Vivid scenes are set and he brings them to life with just sufficient detail to allow your imagination to fill in the rest. Bravo! I shall definitely be reading more of Mr Marcum’s work!”

Reviewed by Dick Gillman

Sherlock Holmes – Tangled Skeins 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 and Apple iBooks(iPad/iPhone).

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Posted by on July 16, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Review of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Volume One and Two

11 Jul

“This hardback edition, published in 2014, combines two earlier collections. Volume I consists of traditional pastiches, ranging from the faintly comic to the genuinely tragic, and even including a case-within-a-case. All the stories are cleverly plotted and very much in Conan Doyle’s own style. The latter tales are more ambitious, in that they begin during the period of Holmes’ supposed “retirement,” when (at his brother Mycroft’s urging) he worked to counter German espionage prior to World War I, as recounted by Doyle in “His Last Bow.“ That poignant case was hardly Holmes’ last bow for David Marcum. With remarkable originality, he sets his next two stories in the 1920s, when Holmes and Watson find themselves visiting Marcum’s own ancestors in east Tennessee. Fine as these stories are in their own right, even more valuable for Sherlockian scholars is the skillful way that Marcum (in this volume and its recent successor, Tangled Skeins) fleshes out the bare chronology of Baring-Gould’s Sherlock of Holmes of Baker Street with biographical detail, offering a fascinatingly complete picture of the lives of Holmes and Watson, from before their first meeting until the doctor’s death in 1929. Even readers who wrongheadedly regard the Canon as detective fiction will find The Papers of Sherlock Holmes well worth investigating.”

Reviewed by Thomas A. Turley, author of “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Tainted Canister”

The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 and 2 Hardback Edition is available from all good bookstores including   Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble USA, Amazon UK,Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .

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Posted by on July 11, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Review of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met

03 Jul

“… Wendy C. Fries writes with such wonderful humour and joy, not one story falls short. Holmes and Watson are portrayed vividly and with such skill you do not need the date markers or hansoms or the London Eye to tell whether you’re in Victorian London or in modern London…”

Reviewed by The Melbourne Review of Books

Read the full review here.

Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Day They Met is available from all good bookstores including   Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble 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).

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Posted by on July 3, 2015 in Book Reviews, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes – 2nd Edition

25 Jun

The recent decease of one of the descendents of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set the most interesting adventures. This new edition includes a further discovered story – The Adventure of The Cricketers.

The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes is available from all good bookstores worldwide, including  Amazon USA,Barnes and Noble, Amazon UK  , Waterstones. For elsewhere Book Depository who offer free delivery worldwide. In ebook format there is Amazon Kindle,Nook,Kobo Books and iBooks (iPad/iPhone), and it is available in Audible Audio Edition.

The special edition Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes hardback version, 2 column ’Strand’ format is available from all good bookstores including Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository.

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Posted by on June 25, 2015 in Uncategorized

 

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The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper

17 Jun

“The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper,” uncovers clues as to Why the Dog Did Not Bark in the Night.  Sherlock Holmes concluded that it was because the intruder was known to the dog.  Madsen’s new mystery questions whether the identity of one of the greatest criminals of all time, Jack the Ripper, was deduced by Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle was already famous with his popular Sherlock Holmes stories when Jack the Ripper struck London in October 1888. Why was Conan Doyle silent about this case?  Find out in “The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper.”

Diane Gilbert Madsen’s The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper was the best book I’ve read in a long, long time. I was hooked by page six and couldn’t stop reading. Spellbinding, intriguing and with a beguiling wit, Ms. Madsen delighted me to no end. –Catherine Lanigan, author, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, and Love Shadows.

The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper paperback edition 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 Amazon Kindle,  Kobo, Nookand Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper hardback edition is available from all good bookstores including  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository.

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Posted by on June 17, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Released today – Imogene and the Case of The Missing Pearls

15 Jun

In Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls, a day after Imogene’s obnoxious step-cousins pay a visit, her mother’s pearls go missing. When Sherlock Holmes is called in, Imogene, harboring a secret desire to become a detective, sees her chance to learn from the great Mr. Holmes.

“Sherlock Holmes finds a plucky protégé in Imogene!  The story is a true Victorian whodunit, our young heroine surrounded by a list of colorful suspects – her conniving cousin, a temperamental governess, the elderly butler, to name a few.  Readers will love tracking down clues, collecting evidence alongside Imogene, and will cheer when the handcuffs are placed on the unlikely culprit.  An engaging mystery for young readers!”

– Barbara Mariconda (The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons/HarperCollins 2012, Edgar winner and National Book Award finalist)

Imogene and The Case of The Missing Pearls 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 and Kobo.

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Posted by on June 15, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Peter E. Blau reviews Sherlock Holmes an

13 Jun

Peter E. Blau reviews Sherlock Holmes and the Baron of Brede Place

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Posted by on June 13, 2015 in Uncategorized

 

Peter E. Blau reviews Holmes and Watson – An American Adventure

04 Jun

“David Ruffle’s HOLMES AND WATSON: AN AMERICAN ADVENTURE (2015; 140 pp.) brings Holmes and Watson to New York, so that Holmes can lecture at a training academy for the city’s police force (and help solve a murder), and to Fall River, where Holmes solves two more murders and has a chance to meet Lizzie Borden and review the records of the murders of her father and stepmother.”

Pre publication copies available from The Strand Magazine

Holmes and Watson – An American Adventure is available for pre order from all good bookstores including  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .

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Posted by on June 4, 2015 in Book Reviews, Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Latest review of A Biased Judgement by Geri Schear

28 May

“This is the most “authentic-feeling” work I have read. Doyle himself would be pleased with this. Every detail reeks of authenticity. It was difficult to put this down, and I’m sorry I’m finished!”

Available from Amazon UK and Amazon USA.

Geri’s next book, Sherlock Holmes and The Other Woman will be out in November.

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Posted by on May 28, 2015 in Uncategorized

 

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Released today: The Egyptian Curse – the final book in the Andriacco/McMullen trilogy

25 May

London, 1924: When Alfie Barrington is stabbed to death outside his club, suspicion quickly falls on his widow, the lovely Sarah – and on her former beau, Enoch Hale. The American journalist has an alibi, but he doesn’t know her name and Scotland Yard can’t find her. Determined to solve this case without the help of his friend Sherlock Holmes, Hale launches and investigation that brings him into contact with Leonard and Virginia Woolf, bohemian writers and publishers; P.G. Wodehouse, creator of Jeeves and Bertie Wooster; Howard Carter, discoverer of King Tut’s tomb; and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. A second murder sparks journalistic speculation of a curse related to Alfie’s time in Egypt as a competitor of Carter and his patron, Lord Carnarvon. Hale doesn’t buy that, but he doesn’t come up with a better solution until it is almost too late. And in the end, it is once again Sherlock Holmes who puts it all together. This exciting historical mystery concludes the Enoch Hale – Sherlock Holmes trilogy that began with The Amateur Executioner and continued with The Poisoned Penman.

“In contrast to most tales involving Holmes, The Amateur Executioner takes us into an ambiguous and murky world where right and wrong aren’t always distinguishable. I look forward to reading more about Enoch Hale.”

The Egyptian Curse is available from all good bookstores including The Strand Magazine,  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK, and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository .

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Posted by on May 25, 2015 in Uncategorized

 

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