a lifetime with Sherlock
Although I have spent much of the last month in A Location Not to Be Revealed, I must assert my right to have my friends to my own home. Therefore, you are hereby invited to join Holmes and me for a garden party in our Sussex home, on 19 August. The festivities will be on a Moroccan theme, in honour of the setting of Garment of Shadows, which means that Mrs. Hudson is currently firmly … [Read more...]
Oh dear, one does begin these projects with the very best of intentions, and then Life intervenes and before any time at all, one is off in Switzerland or being consulted on a case in Costa Rica and the communication with friends suffers. And here I meant to keep you all abreast of these cases on which Holmes and I are asked to advise. However, now that the Olympics are about to descend on the … [Read more...]
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Today is publication day for the new collection of stories inspired by Holmes canon entitled, “A Study In Sherlock.” My literary agent, Ms. Laurie R King, and her friend, Mr Leslie S Klinger (author of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes), collaborated on the concept for this anthology and the early reviews have been favourable. The list of contributing mystery writers is impressive, and as … [Read more...]
When my literary agent, Laurie R King, informed me she was joining with Leslie Klinger (The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes) in a project to solicit well-known mystery writers to produce short stories “inspired by the Holmes canon” with an eye to publication as an anthology, I wished them well. I never dreamed that this collection of sixteen new short stories, titled “A Study In Sherlock,” … [Read more...]
Today is publication day for Pirate King! My agent, Laurie King, is setting off on her tour, and I hope that those of you who live in one of the cities she will be visiting will come out to see her: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, Chicago, Minneapolis, St Louis, and Denver. Her schedule is Here. And to get everyone in the mood for the (admittedly preposterous!) … [Read more...]