The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XI: Some Untold Cases (1880-1891)

I have them all and confidently expect more. Holmsians are fortunate to have this man rounding up and editing these wonderful continuations of the Canon. Where it's always 1895 . . . . . Thanks, David !

This volume (and the next) of MX Publishing’s ongoing anthology of traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches brings us Canonical cases that Dr. Watson mentioned but never told in full. Part XI contains 16 short stories, a sonnet on the untold tales, and a classic radio play by Leslie Charteris and Denis Green. Of the stories, my favorites were “Mrs. Forrester’s Complication,” in which Roger Riccard introduces a substitute sidekick for Holmes; Paul Nash’s “The Adventure if the Paradol Chamber,” pitting the detective against a vainglorious literary rival; and Craig Stephen Copeland’s “The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee,” blessed with an exotic setting and a pair of twins. Other strong entries are Will Murray’s account of the “abominable” Merridew, Hugh Ashton’s solution of the Tankerville Club card scandal, Gayle Lang Pugh’s diagnosis of “Colonel Warburton’s Madness,” and Mike Hogan’s “The Bishopgate Affair.” Kevin P. Thornton offers a different take on “The Vatican Cameos” than Richard Ryan’s, while Robert Perret demonstrates that even Victorian laundry offered an avenue for crime. Marcia Wilson (here accompanied by Richard Dean Starr) enables Lestrade solve a mystery that had baffled his Scotland Yard colleagues for a decade. It is hard to imagine Conan Doyle editing these long-lost stories more entertainingly than his latter-day successors. Better yet, Part XII of the anthology presents more “untold cases” from 1894 to 1902. Stay tuned!

Wonderfully written short stories written by experts on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his great character Sherlock Holmes. You will be stunned at how good the stories are not to mention you just won't be able to it down!