Sunday, July 26, 2015

The Demon Device (1981)

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Not a Holmes story, but I think this still falls under our charter of "cases for which the world was not yet prepared." The Demon ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Quallsford Inheritance (1987)

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The Quallsford Inheritance  – "a memoir of Sherlock Holmes from the papers of Edward Porter Jones, his late assistant" – was first...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Sherlock Holmes and the Golden Bird (1979)

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The first Holmes pastiche by the prolific Frank Thomas . This first paperback edition contains a preview for The Dossier of Solar Pons  in t...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

A Monstrous Regiment of Woman (1997)

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Laurie R. King's sequel to  The Beekeeper's Apprentice . First published in hardcover in 1995. This Batman paperback is from 1997. ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1996)

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice or On The Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King is another Holmes pastiche that I think would make a gr...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Night Break (2015)

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The eight (and final?) installment in Andrew Lane's Young Sherlock Holmes series. Sherlock's mother has died, his father has di...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Exit Sherlock Holmes (1987)

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This is a 1987 UK paperback edition of Robert Lee Hall's intriguing novel, Exit Sherlock Holmes . I always thought this one would have m...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Becoming Holmes (2014)

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Not to be confused with Andrew Lane's  Young Sherlock Holmes  books, this unofficial series about "The Boy Sherlock Holmes" ra...
Thursday, June 11, 2015

Christopher Lee, 1922-2015

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Sir Christopher Lee has passed away at age 93. Lee played Sherlock Holmes in the 1962 film Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace , and in ...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Sherlock Holmes (1916) screens in San Francisco

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William Gillette's recently discovered 1916 silent film version of his famous stage play Sherlock Holmes screened at the Castro Theatre...