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So, the new Sherlock Holmes anthology ‘The Absentee Detective’ is, as you might just have heard, my new (And second) book. Due for release November 22nd 2018, it’s available NOW for Pre-Order on Amazon and we’re currently in negotiations for an Audio-Book release. But how to give you, the stunningly good-looking, stylish and discerning readers of my blog a sneaky peaky as it were?. Why, by giving a short synopsis of each of the four stories!.

In The Detective Who Wasn’t, a young boy in Wor...

The latest addition to the plenitudinous array of Sherlock Holmes novels is out on Amazon this very week; The Absentee Detective is Mark Sohn’s second Holmesian work, following on from Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders, an Amazon best-seller. We’ve managed to secure an exclusive interview with the Author – which, to be honest, wasn’t that much of a scoop seeing as I am Mark Sohn… still, work with what you’ve got, as the Magistrate said to the flasher…

Ahem. So, I decided to ask – er...

Sherlock Holmes and The Juju Men of RichmondA hitherto unpublished memoirof Dr. John Watson, M.D.    
I feel that enough time has passed that I may share with you one of the un-heralded adventures that involved my friend and colleague Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself in the year of our Lord 1882. As most of the protagonists and many of those with peripheral involvement have passed away or retired, as Holmes and myself, perhaps those survivors of this extraordinary episode will for...

Here's a link to the Author's page... handsome chap, isn't he?... (Whistling innocently)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mark-Sohn/e/...

Yes, it's almost here, that time of year again. A time of celebration and caring, of giving and pretending you wanted those hand-knitted gloves from Dotty old Aunty Ethel... bah! humbug! I say; I shall be drawing up the drawbridge, liberally spiking the drive with broken glass and retreating to the study with an impressive quantity of Port and Cigars, with some Brandy just in case of medical emergency. But what's this?; there's nothing on the telly and the radio's bust?. Relax - merely reach...

On a drive in East Sussex, Paul Ashton and his Wife decided to stop at a car boot sale. What he found there has both shocked and delighted the literary World. For just £2, Mr. Ashton purchased an old copy of Practical Handbook of Bee Culture-the Author?, none other than Sherlock Holmes!. It was thought no copies of the Handbook had survived, yet here over 267 pages is the diary kept by the great man, covering events from his 1903 move to a farm near Beachy Head, in East Sussex.

At this time,...

Here at 221b our interest was captured by a new and most promising author; aficionados may have visited James Moffett's excellent blog where all things Holmes are covered in a refreshing and concise manner. We have been lucky enough to be granted an interview with the man of the hour himself, but first let us share this remarkable site with you; https://apalaceforthemind.wordpress.com/
Now you will be delighted to hear, James has written his first novel, The Trials of Sherlock Holmes, a colle...

Dan Andriacco's Baker Street Beat: A Ripping Good Ripper Tale: Perhaps the most overworked of all pastiche storylines is that of Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper. But as well-worn as the trope is...

Images. Afghanistan. The British Army. Dreams... memories. John Watson bursts from his nightmares to another night, wracked with guilt, haunted by the past, mocked by the present. 


Martin Freeman plays John Watson, Doctor and ex-Soldier.Sitting on his singly bed in his dingy flat, he's utterly lost. The stick he walks with leans on the table. Breakfast is an apple. Coffee in a Medical Corps mug. Sliding his drawer open reveals a pistol*, 

but he takes his laptop out instead. He's got...

The Daily Mirror, one of Britain's leading tabloids reported this week on Patricia Cornwell's new book on Jack the Ripper-'Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert.' Although the left-leaning red-top is usually my go-to newspaper, Tom Bryant's article had me chomping at the bit in more ways than one. Ripper-ologists among you will doubtless be aware of her execrable previous foray into the field and, as I have no intention of going through that again, I shall focus on her last offering. 'Por...