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Sherlock Holmes

The Return of the Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer: Featured Excerpt

By Crime HQ

September 28, 2021

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…

Book Review: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Back-to-Front Murder by Tim Major

By Doreen Sheridan

September 2, 2021

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Back-to-Front Murder by Tim Major is a thoughtful homage to the original Sherlock Holmes tales, where the Great Detective and Dr. Watson assist a popular mystery writer whose plots seem to be coming to life. There’s a brand new conundrum for the iconic duo of Sherlock Holmes and…

Mystery Minus Murder with Nancy Springer

By Nancy Springer

August 30, 2021

Scribbling my first novels back in the 1970s, already I knew, just knew, that I would never write mystery. Not. Ever. I loved reading classical mystery novels, but the plotty plots didn’t feel right for me as a writer, or the red herrings, or the first murder, the second murder, the third murder, or any…

Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche by Nancy Springer: New Excerpt

By Nancy Springer

June 3, 2021

Chapter the First After my reconciliation with my brothers in the summer of 1889, I spent August quite happily with Reginald Collie, visiting Ferndell, my childhood home in the country. Moreover, after returning to London and my very safe albeit somewhat Spartan room at the Professional Women’s Club, I purchased a delightful new dress, apricot…

Who are the Real Baker Street Irregulars?

By H. B. Lyle

May 10, 2021

Who are the real Baker Street Irregulars?  Are they a gang of street kids who worked for Sherlock Holmes, appearing in only three stories but nevertheless spawning at least three major TV shows in the last 30 years; or are they the US’s first and most famous Sherlockian society? Or are they actually Winston Churchill’s…

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove

By Doreen Sheridan

November 11, 2020

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove is a continuation of the story of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as five years later, another monstrous creature stalks across Dartmoor, leading the detective to believe that Stapleton may not have perished in the Great Grimpen Mire after all and…

Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons by James Lovegrove: New Excerpt

By Crime HQ

November 10, 2020

“But to begin at the beginning…” said Corporal Benjamin Grier. “If you wouldn’t mind,” said Holmes. Sitting back, the American commenced his narrative. “I was owed several weeks’ leave by the army, and got it into my head that I should visit with my old pal Henry all the way across the Atlantic. I was…

Film Review: Enola Holmes

By Hector DeJean

October 2, 2020

Sherlock Holmes was, is, and likely will remain a solid fuel source for the entertainment industry, and the very latest offering is the Netflix film Enola Holmes, based on the Edgar Award-nominated YA series by Nancy Springer. Millie Bobby Brown, who launched her career playing Eleven on Stranger Things, dives into the part of Sherlock…

But That Has Already Been Written About

By Leonard Goldberg

June 30, 2020

Goodness knows how many writers have had their ideas dashed by that comment, which is unfortunate because literally everything has already been written about. Don’t believe me? Well then, let me give you a few bestselling examples, beginning with Lee Child’s Jack Reacher stories. Read the novel Shane (published in 1946) or watch the movies…

Book Review: The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicholas Meyer

By Ray Palen

November 8, 2019

January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes’ brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. An agent of the British Secret Service has been found floating in the Thames, carrying a manuscript smuggled into England at the cost of her life. The pages purport to be the minutes of a meeting of a secret…

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