Curtain Raiser As the Turkish police began to dig up the remains, Holmes and I gratefully sniffed the morning desert air. It was chilly at this hour but the heat would soon become insupportable. “Remember Nietzsche’s dictum,” the detective remarked, lighting his pipe. “Nothing not written in blood is worth reading.” “Or writing, in this…
GIFnotes: Giving you the basic plot summary of an upcoming book with the help of the Graphics Interchange Format. This week, the daughter of the great detective teams up with the son of the good doctor to solve a murder in the highest levels of British society. Take a visual tour of Leonard Goldberg's The Daughter of Sherlock…
In a stunning follow-up to the acclaimed In the Company of Sherlock Holmes, Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger present a brand-new anthology of stories inspired by the Arthur Conan Doyle canon. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, I'm certain he had no idea where his most famous creations—Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson—were…
An observation I had in my years working for Sports Illustrated: athletes and the heroes of crime fiction have much in common, but most simply this—a ruthless clarity of purpose and an ability to perform at their best when the action reaches its climax. Below I’ve assembled a football team populated by great characters from…
For its upcoming Christmas special, Sherlock will be traveling back to the time period in which it was written, and fans can get their first glimpse in the delightfully tongue-in-cheek teaser that was recently released. Watch the clip below, and enjoy everything we've come to love from this series: a sarcastic Sherlock, a blunt Watson,…
Enjoy this exclusive excerpt of the first two chapters of Sherlock Holmes: The Will of the Dead by George Mann, a brand-new adventure for the detective and Dr. John Watson (available November 5, 2013). A young man named Peter Maugram appears at the front door of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson’s Baker Street lodgings. Maugram’s…
The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes by George Mann is a collection of short stories detailing the supernatural steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London (available September 24, 2013). This was the first of George Mann’s books that I’ve read, and what caught my…
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes, edited by George Mann, is an anthology of short fiction featuring Sherlock himself in a variety of genres from steampunk to straight-up horror (available February 19, 2013). Through permission of the author and publisher, we’re proud to present this exclusive excerpt. Read on to enter for a chance to win! …
Encounters of Sherlock Holmes edited by George Mann is an anthology of short fiction featuring Sherlock himself in a variety of genres from steampunk to straight-up horror (available February 19, 2013). When it comes to fiction, the crossover—blending or marrying two separate universes into a righteous narrative sandwich—is a curious affair. Especially, dare I say,…
It is a rare occasion that brings together 75 Sherlock Holmes aficionados, their friends, and significant others in one place, but that’s exactly what happened on January 10 at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan for the First Daintiest Thing Under a Bonnet Charity Ball. To boot, it was all in the name of a good…
