Publisher's Synopsis
The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News).
Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes.
Includes new tales by:
- Sharyn McCrumb
- Loren D. Estleman
- Carolyn Wheat
- Malachi Saxon
- Jon L. Breen
- Bill Crider
- Colin Bruce
- Lenore Carroll
- Barry Day
- Daniel Stashower
- Christopher Redmond on illuminating the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet"
- Editors Lellenberg and Stashower's "A Sherlockian Library" details fifty essential books for the Arthur Conan Doyle fan
- Philip A. Shreffler's essay explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart"
