"Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes has at various times to examine."

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Sherlock Holmes in Orbit (1995)

A "truly original" collection of 26 Holmes stories officially authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. This is the paperback first. A hardcover was released in 1997.

NOT EVEN TIME CAN DEFEAT
THE MASTER SLEUTH
in this intriguing anthology of 26 new stories about the most famous and popular detective in the annals of literature–Sherlock Holmes. This volume, authorized for publication by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, contains stories by such top talents as Vonda McIntyre, Frank M. Robinson, Craig Shaw Gardner, David Gerrold, and Mike Resnick, masterful plotters who cleverly set their crime scenarios in every age from Holmes' era to own time or our future, and sometimes even dare to follow the great detective's career after his death. 
From confrontations with Fu Manchu and Moriarty, to a commission Holmes undertakes for a vampire, to a tale in which the master of logic is reconstituted as a computer program, here are truly original stories, all of which contain some science fiction or fantasy element and all of which remain true to the spirit and personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous and enduring creation.
THE MUSGRAVE VERSION
THE CASE OF THE DETECTIVE'S SMILE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE RUSSIAN GRAVE
THE ADVENTURE OF THE FIELD THOREMS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING COFFIN
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND SCARF
THE PHANTOM OF THE BARBARY COAST
MOUSE AND THE MOAST
TWO ROADS, NO CHOICES
THE RICHMOND ENIGMA
A STUDY IN SUSSEX
THE HOLMES TEAM ADVANTAGE
ALIMENTARY, MY DEAR WATSON
THE FUTURE ENGINE
HOLMES EX MACHINA
THE SHERLOCK SOLUTION
THE FAN WHO MOLDED HIMSELF
SCOND FIDDLE
MORIARTY BY MODEM
THE GREATEST DETECTIVE OF ALL
THE CASE OF THE PURLOINED L'ISITEK
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLEGAL ALIEN
DOGS, MASQUES, LOVE, DEATH: FLOWERS
YOU SEE BUT YOU DO NOT OBSERVE
ILLUSIONS
THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEARLY GATE 

Title: Sherlock Holmes in Orbit
Editors: Mike Resnick, Martin H. Greenberg
Year: 1995
Publisher: DAW
Purchase: Amazon (U.S.) | Amazon (UK)

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train (1985)

One of several original Holmes novels by Frank Thomas. This one has Sherlock solving a great train robbery.

INTO THIN AIR... 
A half million pounds in gold has disappeared from an armored train outside London. The railroad and the banks are in an uproar, and finally they must turn to Sherlock Holmes for help. What begins as a deceptively simple case transforms into a puzzle unlike any Dr. Watson has ever seen, as Holmes works brilliantly to unravel an international tangle of high finance, low cunning, and cold-blooded murder. The clues are slim, the work is deadly dangerous, the game's afoot––and the great sleuth is giving chase!

Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Treasure Train
Author: Frank Thomas
Year: 1985
Publisher: Pinnacle
Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

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