Marcum, David
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XVII
In “The Sussex Vampire”, Holmes tells Watson: “This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.” In each of the stories presented in this huge three-volume collection, Holmes approaches the varied problems with one of his favorite maxims firmly in place: “. . . . When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth . . . .” But what, exactly, is the truth?
A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson, was first published in 1887. What an amazing journey the years since then have been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of additional Holmes adventures in the form of books, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies, manuscripts, comics, and fan fiction. And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!
The forty-nine stories in these three companion volumes represent some of the finest new Holmesian storytelling to be found, and honor the man described by Watson as “the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known.”
All royalties from this collection are being donated by the writers for the benefit of the preservation of Undershaw, one of the former homes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Part XVII – Whatever Remains Must Be the Truth (1891-1898) features contributions by:
Charles Veley & Anna Elliott, Arthur Hall, Michael Mallory, Will Murray, Paul D. Gilbert, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Stephen Herczeg, Hugh Ashton, Chris Chan, Bert Coules, Jane Rubino, Tracy J. Revels, Geri Schear, David Marcum, and Dick Gillman, with a poem by Christopher James, and forewords by David Marcum, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Roger Johnson, and Steve Emecz
Keywords: Undershaw, sir Arthur Conan Doyle, short story collection, stepping stones school, supernatural, ghosts, mythological creatures, curses, possessions, prophecies, monsters, violin, verse, Scarborough, Scarborough Castle, specter, reporter, The Gazette, blackmailer, museum, Sumatra, Giant Rat of Sumatra, Matilda Briggs, witch-board, planchette, spirit board, hypnotism, Canterbury Theatre of Varieties, Manchester, kidnapping
- Author(s)
- Marcum, David
- Publisher
- Andrews UK
- Publication year
- 2019
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
- Page amount
- 550 pages
- Category
- Thriller
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781787055087
- Printed ISBN
- 9781787055070