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What a tangled web! – Review of Sherlock Holmes and The Jeweller of Florence

The action packed tale weaves in and out and just when the reader thinks he or she knows all about a certain character he or she may find themselves wrong…I give this book five stars…

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Sherlock Holmes and The Jeweller of Florence 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). also available on Audible.

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Book Giveaway For The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Re-Imagined – The Complete Collection

This collected volume reprints all twelve short stories comprising The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Re-Imagined book series in one paperback edition. Between its covers the original tales by Conan Doyle have been amusingly illustrated using only LEGO® brand minifigures and bricks. The illustrations recreate, through custom designed Lego models, the composition of the black and white drawings by Sidney Paget that accompanied the original publication of these adventures appearing in The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. Paget’s iconic illustrations are largely responsible for the popular image of Sherlock Holmes, including his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape, details never mentioned in the writings of Conan Doyle.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Re-Imagined — The Complete Collection 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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What if time machine were real – Review of Never Meant To Be

Seitz’s tale dances back and forth along the timeline, each jump having effects on how history would be written. At times things must absolutely be done, other things prevented at all costs.

Moriarty is all too real, and if he gains control of the Time Machine, history will be made in his image. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must work to stop him. Some things were never meant to be, but time is a temperamental mistress who has her own plans…

I loved this story, and I give it five stars!

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Never Meant To Be is available from all good bookstores including The Strand MagazineAmazon USA, Barnes and Noble 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).

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Review of Sherlock Holmes and The Lufton Lady

This story has history behind it. The author was a very special Sherlockian who passed away in 1996 at the age of 43. Ms Aig was well liked in the world of Sherlock Holmes and a member of several groups dedicated to the Great Detective.

She left behind this story, which is being published in her memory.

Many authors write great mystery stories starring Holmes, Watson, and other members of the canon. What Marlene Aig has produced here goes beyond just a mystery to solve. It dares to go beyond Holmes as the cold scientific investigator and looks at Holmes, the man…

I enthusiastically give this novelette five stars!

Reviewed by Raven’s Reviews

Sherlock Holmes and The Lufton Lady 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 Amazon Kindle,  Kobo, Nook and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

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Out next week – Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt, paperback edition

David Marcum has again managed to write a brilliant Holmes pastiche!” Raven’s Reviews

Nothing that is secret can remain secret forever. But is it possible that some crimes are better left undiscovered? Join Holmes and Watson as they travel from London to storm-wracked Bedfordshire, where the Great Detective finds himself uncovering the grisly truth concerning a half-century old murder.

Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt paperback edition 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 Amazon Kindle, Kobo and Apple iBooks (iPad/iPhone).

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Welcome To Undershaw – out on October 10th

“WELCOME TO UNDERSHAW is subtitled as “a brief history of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the man who created Sherlock Holmes” and offers a well-illustrated examination of Conan Doyle’s early life, the history of the house, and an interesting exploration of what happened while he was living there. It’s nicely done indeed, and will be welcomed by anyone who has visited or plans to visited Undershaw.” Peter Blau, Scuttlebutt, Sept 16.

Welcome To Undershaw is available from all good bookstores including  Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstones UK and for free shipping worldwide Book Depository.

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Book Giveaway For The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes by Sax Rohmer – Volume 1

Book Giveaway For The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes by Sax Rohmer – Volume 1

In the 1800s, a number of Victorian and Edwardian writers began writing detective mystery stories – for this was the era when Arthur Conan Doyle was creating Sherlock Holmes tales on a regular basis. Modern authors have attempted to recapture the mystique of Conan Doyle’s adventures by writing “new” Holmes stories; yet these attempts frequently fail to capture the original flavor, because 2013 writers simply don’t think or speak like Victorians. Conan Doyle’s contemporaries wrote about characters of their own invention; nevertheless they sound more like Conan Doyle than do any of his deliberate modern imitators. One of the more successful of these “period” writers was Sax Rohmer. Now in 2016, both Sax Rohmer’s stories and the Conan Doyle canon are all in the public domain. Thus it is now possible to present … Sax Rohmer’s version of Sherlock Holmes.

The Affairs of Sherlock Holmes By Sax Rohmer – Volume 1 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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Great offer from The Strand Magazine

Combo: Cracking The Code of The Canon – How Sherlock Holmes Made His Decisions and The Conan Doyle Notes – The Secret of Jack The Ripper by Diane Gilbert Madsen

Save $21.00! Order here.

Cracking The Code of The Canon – How Sherlock Holmes Made His Decisions by Diane Gilbert Madsen

Diane Gilbert Madsen’s new book from MX Publishing, Cracking the Code of the Canon, breaks the Canon wide open to offer a totally unique and different way of looking at Holmes and Watson and all the stories in the Canon you know and enjoy.  It was written by lifelong Sherlockian and award winning mystery author Diane Gilbert Madsen (The Conan Doyle Notes: The Secret of Jack the Ripper; Hunting for Hemingway; and A Cadger’s Curse.). She brings her amusing style to a remarkable overview of the Canon that will intrigue Sherlockian novices and aficionados alike.  Her very readable and entertaining take on the Sherlock Holmes approach to crime, criminals, victims and justice may alter many of your views of the Canon.  Statistics can be fun when they relate to Sherlockian lore.

The Conan Doyle Notes – The Secret of Jack The Ripper by Diane Gilbert Madsen

“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.” A sturdy hardcover and priced at regularly at $28.99, this is a must have for mystery fans and Sherlockians!

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An Evening with Sherlock Holmes

The launch event for Volume III of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes is at 6.30 on Thursday 3 November 2016 at The Lecture Club, 9 Ilchester Place, W14 8AA, UK (nearest stations Kensington Olympia and High Street Kensington).

The program of events is as follows:

6.30 to 7.00 – arrival and taking seats

7.00 to 7.15 – Scene 1 from Dr Anstruther’s Practice – the first story in The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume III

7.15 to 7.30 – Undershaw – Arthur Conan Doyle’s old house – Steve Emecz, Director of MX Publishing and fundraiser, will give an illustrated talk on the history of, Undershaw near Hindhead, and an update on its re-opening as Stepping Stones School in September

7.30 to 7.45 – Thinking like Sherlock Holmes in Business – The Case of the Mexican Cyclist and The Case of the Boomerang Manager

7.45 to 8.00 – Scene 2 from Dr Anstruther’s Practice.

8.00 to 8.30 – networking and book buying

Tickets cost £12 if bought in advance (please print off and pay on arrival at 9 Ilchester Place). The price includes drinks and nibbles.

Tickets are £15 if bought at the door on the night.

For tickets click here.

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What’s Your Favorite Sherlock Holmes Story?

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the “most portrayed literary human character in film & TV.”   He fascinated the world when Conan Doyle’s stories first appeared, and today he’s still calling “the game is afoot” to Dr. Watson as they hail a hansom cab on the foggy streets of London, ready to right a wrong and catch a criminal.

Conan Doyle wrote fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories and four novels, and everyone seems to have a favorite tale. Even Conan Doyle himself made a list of his personal twelve favorite short stories:

  1. “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 1892
  2. “The Red-headed League” 1891
  3. “The Adventure of the Dancing Men” 1903
  4. “The Final Problem” 1893
  5. “A Scandal in Bohemia” 1891
  6. “The Adventure of the Empty House” 1903
  7. “The Five Orange Pips” 1891
  8. “The Adventure of the Second Stain” 1904
  9. “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot” 1910
  10. “The Adventure of the Priory School” 1904
  11. “The Musgrave Ritual” 1893
  12. “The Reigate Squires” 1893

Read the full article published in The Strand Magazine by Diane Gilbert Madsen here.

 

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