What a COMPANY!
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. 
Such as Gahan Wilson and Nancy Holder:
How I Came to Meet Sherlock Holmes by Gahan Wilson
I must confess I do not remember the precise date I first came to meet Sherlock Holmes but I know it was back in the brewing days of World War Two. Hitler and his Nazis had been building their extraordinarily powerful killing and crushing machine for some time and I was a very young lad living with my parents in a pleasant apartment building in Evanston, Illinois which had a very spacious backyard/parking lot to serve the apartment building’s tenants needs.
The building was full of families with young people such as myself, and we children played games enthusiastically and generally got along quite well with one another. I grew to be particularly fond of young, blonde Helen Stumph.
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The Adventure of My Ignoble Ancestress by Nancy Holder
After my parents were murdered, I dropped everything and devoted myself to their case. I spent an incredible amount of money on private detectives and false leads. I got scammed a dozen times. A year passed, two, three. I never finished that book. My editor stopped asking about my progress. My literary agent suggested that a break would be good for both of us. I still had some cash left at that point, and I decided to make it last until I woke from this terrible nightmare. Money from royalties would come in the way it always had.
While that was true up to a point, the amount I received decreased every year as readers moved on. But I could not move on. Nothing I did made a difference. No one came forward with a name or a reason. No case-breaking clues were found. Still, I didn’t give up. I badgered the Roman police, I exploited all forms of social media, and I kept up the heat.
That was how Blackfield Carpenter, an English law firm, linked me, Nancy Holder the horror writer, to a Victorian-era banker named Alexander Holder. It turns out that I’m a descendant of this man, the closest one, in fact.
And Alexander Holder was a client of Sherlock Holmes.
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes publishes November 11. You can pre-order a copy from:
Poisoned Pen Books (signed by Laurie King, Les Klinger, and others)
I received mine yesterday from Amazon – did they jump the gun? I’m not complaining, because it enables me to fly to California with it so that I can get the book autographed! Can’t wait to read it!
good afternoon. i ordered the “in company..” new book yesterday, from my local indie bookstore here in vancouver, bc. (support the indies!!) although the bookseller got all the information she needed by accessing your blog, we were both a bit stumped by one thing. is there a laurie r. king story in the book too? (love most of the other authors, so can’t wait for mine to arrive)
thanks
Nope, I did the introduction but there’s no story of mine in this one.
hi laurie, thanks for the response about your “in the company…” new book. one of those crazy co-incidences, i had no sooner hit “send”, than an email popped into my inbox from The Strand Magazine, with an extensive article about the book. a spooky, halloween co-incidence, perhaps?