Today at BoucherCon, we’re having a launch party for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes. There are thirteen prose stories in the collection–but there are also Gahan Wilson drawings, and one graphic story by Leah Moore and John Reppion: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes publishes November 11. You can pre-order a copy from: Poisoned…
Read MoreIn the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Michael Sims and Cornelia Funke. The Memoirs of Silver Blaze by Michael Sims I shall not soon forget that awful night on the moors. I was happy in King’s Pyland. At the…
Read More10 November 1914 I have been neglecting this Journal in recent weeks. Nonetheless, it appears that my life will continue, and Dr. Ginsberg feels that some weekly notation might be of use in the restoration of normal thought. So I shall resume. My family is dead. I, however, am alive. And following the increasing number…
Read MoreIn the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Andrew Grant and Denise Hamilton: Dr Watson’s Casebook by Andrew Grant Frankland shared links to Frankland v Middleton and Frankland v Fernworth, at Court of Queen’s Bench. Frankland likes this. D1,000 others…
Read MoreWant a copy of Dreaming Spies before the rest of the world can even get a peek? Bantam are doing a giveaway this month, here on: Goodreads.
Read MoreIn the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Jeffrey Deaver and Laura Caldwell: The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman by Jeffrey Deaver Sometimes it’s overwhelming: the burden of knowing that the man you most admire isn’t real. Then the depression…
Read More(From Mary Russell’s war journal, in the hand of Dr. Leah Ginsberg.) 3 November 1914 This past week saw a relapse in Mary’s state of mind. At first, I and her doctor both feared a return of the infections caused by the dirt in her injuries, and she did admit to headaches. However, when she…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThe book I’m working on has, among its several elements, an episode in Papua New Guinea. So, today’s throwback Thursday… In 1977, a highland air strip (that’s the plane’s strut above my head) and no, I’m not standing far in front of these ladies, they’re just really, really short. And fascinated by this figure from…
Read MoreIn the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as… John Lescroart and Michael Dirda: Dunkirk by John Lescroart May, 1940 In full dark and shrouded in fog, the Dover Doll rose and fell in the still waters of the English Channel.…
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