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Out today – Sherlock Holmes and The Folk Tale Mysteries – Volume 1

12 Aug

A home invasion results in property damage. Children disappear and a disgruntled ex-employee is suspected. Girl visits relative, walks in on scene of carnage. A man searches for days, seeking his lost love. A young woman accuses her father’s wife of attempted murder. Dramatic news from CNN?  Stories ripped from today’s headlines?  No, they are cases investigated by Mr. Sherlock Holmes and his intrepid companion and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.  Drawn into the dark underbelly of folk tale reality, Holmes and Watson travel the streets of London and into the far English countryside to discover the truth about some of the most famous accounts found in childhood literature.  Described in Dr. Watson’s inimitable style and with the names changed to protect the innocent, these tales recount how Sherlock Holmes investigated cases involving missing children, a trio of brothers threatened with destruction and the contents of an ancient box that told a tale of heroism and death. Enter the world of the world’s first consulting detective.  Stand again in Baker Street and look up at the windows of 221B.  That shadow on the blind, is it Lestrade, coming to tell of a baffling case he has failed to solve?  Or is it Mrs. Hudson, bring tea and sandwiches to a suffering client?  Could it be the Great Detective himself, pacing up and down the length of the room, wrapping his mighty brain around yet another conundrum presented for his consideration?  Join Dr. Watson in the adventures that live on these pages and you’ll never think the same about folk tales and nursery rhymes again.

Sherlock Holmes and The Folk Tale Mysteries – Volume 1 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 August 12, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Out today: No Better Place – the final part in the biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from award winning Sherlockian historian Alistair Duncan.

10 Aug

Following his second marriage in 1907 Arthur Conan Doyle was looking to the future. The years ahead would see the birth of three children, fresh literary success and the discovery of his new faith. Those same years would also see the First World War, the final adventures of Sherlock Holmes and ridicule from the religious and scientific communities for his beliefs.

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Posted by on August 10, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Released today – Mrs Hudson in New York

29 Jul

29th July – Mrs Hudson is back – and this time it’s New York

Accompanied by Holmes and Watson, Mrs. Hudson crosses the ocean to attend the wedding of her cousin’s daughter. They disembark to discover that the young lady’s fiancée, a pitcher for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, stands accused of an attempt on the life of JP Morgan and the death of his aide. A self-declared enemy of Morgan and the robber barons, the ballplayer ran from the scene of the crime and, when captured, was found in possession of a gun with two spent cartridges, the same number and caliber as that used in the attack. Before a wedding can be held, the unacknowledged sage of Baker Street will lead Holmes and Watson along a path of investigation taking them from JP Morgan’s mansion to the gambling dens of New York’s Tenderloin.

With the enthusiastic assistance of Samuel Clemens, the reluctant assistance of Morgan, and the cautious assistance of a leader in the African Broadway community, they will identify the financier’s attacker, frustrate efforts to corrupt the game of baseball, and rescue the prospective bride and groom from would-be assassins before returning finally to the comparative quiet of 221B Baker Street…..

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Posted by on July 29, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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Coming out in September – Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman

21 Jul

It’s 1906. Far from England, the Ottoman Empire ruled by the despotic Sultan Abd-ul-Hamid 11 is on the verge of imploding. Rival Great Powers, especially Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany, sit watching like crows on a fence, ready to rush in to carve up the vast territories, menacing England’s vital overland routes to her Indian possessions. At his medical practice in London’s Marylebone Watson receives a mystifying telegram. It’s from Holmes. ‘Dear Watson, if you can throw physic to the dogs for an hour or two I would appreciate meeting at the stone cross at Charing Cross railway station tomorrow noon. I have an assignation with a bird lover at the Stork & Ostrich House in the Regents Park which has excited my curiosity. Yrs. S.H.’

Watson finds the invitation puzzling. Why should such a mundane meeting at a Bird House excite the curiosity of Europe’s most famous investigating detective or anyone else? For old times’ sake Watson joins his old comrade-in-arms. Within days Holmes and Watson find themselves aboard HMS Dreadnought en route to Stamboul, a city of fabled opulence, high espionage and low intrigue. Their mission: at all costs stop a plot which could bring about the immediate collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

Pre publication copies available from The Strand Magazine

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Posted by on July 21, 2015 in Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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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).

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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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