Echoes of Holmes, Ephron, Gardiner, & Krueger

More teasing tidbits from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes. Understudy in Scarlet by Hallie Ephron It’s not an open casting call, Angela Cassano realizes as she takes in the emptiness of director Glenn Lancaster’s outer office. The gloomy space, on the second floor over storefronts on Santa Monica in Beverly Hills, has rough stucco walls painted…

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Echoes of Holmes, Perry, & Lee

The last couple of samples from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, and these are goodies. Raffa by Anne Perry It was one of the nicest hotels in London. The dining room was suitably lush, sombre and filled with the chink of china and the delicate odours of coffee and bacon, but Marcus St. Giles was unimpressed…

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Echoes of Holmes, Phillips & Ryan

Two tasty morsels from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes for you today… Martin X by Gary Phillips The dean of black empowerment lay dead on the worn throw rug. A ragged bullet hole violated Professor Lincoln Barrow’s wrinkled forehead. He was dressed in slacks and slippers, a ratty robe splayed open over an athletic T-shirt covering his…

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Echoes of Holmes, McPherson, Mina, & Morrell

That’s right: more samples from Echoes of Sherlock Holmes… The First Mrs Coulter by Catriona McPherson Miss Cordelia Grant did not mourn the world of damp dressing rooms, damper lodgings and Sunday travel in a third-class railway carriage. True, her current role – lady’s maid to Mrs Gilver – was performed on a smaller stage…

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Echoes of Holmes, Crombie & Doctorow

Want some more samples of the new anthology? Well, okay then! The Case of the Speckled Trout by Deborah Crombie My name is Sherry Watson. It’s a crap name, Sherry, I know. But what can you do? It’s not like I had a say in the matter. My parents, to give them credit, were trying…

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Echoes of Holmes, Cameron, & Connolly

This third collection of “stories inspired by the Holmes canon” that Les Klinger and I have edited is out now, in hardback, e-, and next week, in audio.  In celebration, and to tempt you into the mix, I thought I’d post a few tidbits from the stories.  Here’s the first sampler… Where There is Honey by…

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“Echoes” is coming

This just in from Publishers Weekly about (next month’s!) Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: King and Klinger’s strong third Sherlockian anthology (after 2014’s In the Company of Sherlock Holmes) features 17 stories from leading authors who draw on Conan Doyle’s work for inspiration. The end result is a rich variety of entries, including Tony Lee and Bevis Musson’s “Mrs.…

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No hand-bag clutching in NOLA

The first mystery conference I ever attended was in London, in 1990. At the time, I had a separate agent for the English/Commonwealth market, and she happened to mention that there was this conference that I might go to… Because it coincided with family stuff, I went. And found it interesting, and informative, and more…

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Love for Echoes

PW chose it as one of their top ten mysteries for the fall, and now Kirkus reviews loves them some Echoes of Sherlock Holmes, too: “Inspired” is the key word here, for contributors have been encouraged to interpret their remit even more broadly than in the editors’ previous two collections (In the Company of Sherlock Holmes,…

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Echoes of Sherlock Holmes

Something with my name on the cover has just appeared in the Publisher’s Weekly list of Top Ten Mysteries for the Fall Back in 2009, Les Klinger was in charge of the Left Coast Crime Sherlock Holmes panel. And being Les, he did not go just for the usual suspects (ie, me) but for guests of…

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