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Bloody Sunday
Recognized by the New York Journal of Books as “intellectually outstanding” and hailed as “the best short mystery and crime fiction of the year” by Leonard Carpenter, Maxim Jakubowski presents a collection of short fiction stories from the best contemporary writers of crime and mystery.
New adventures of the iconic sleuth. An icon of detective fiction, readers, investigators, and artists have come across Sherlock Holmes and his mythical stories of crime and adventure for generations. Now comes an outstanding anthology of never before seen short fiction stories featuring the much-loved powers of deduction and unerring quest for the truth―however improbable it might first appear.
A cornucopia of Sherlock Holmes characters, dark deeds, and derring do. Collected by one of the genre's eminent editors, this volume features the mythical detective alongside favorite Sherlock Holmes characters, John Watson and Doctor Moriarty. With further examples of Holmes and Watson, fast-paced puzzles, and investigations accompanied by fascinating investigators, The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories brings together some of the most renowned American and British crime and thriller authors of today.
This bumper volume includes short fiction stories by:
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Lavie Tidhar
- David Stuart Davies
- John Grant
- Rose Biggins
- David N.Smith
- O'Neil De Noux
- Rhys Hughes
- Catherine Lundoff
- Mark Mower
- Matthew Booth
- Martin Daley
- Jan Edwards
- Ashley Lister
- Keith Brooke
- Naching T.Kassa
- Phillip Vine
- Bev Vincent
- Keith Moray
- and Nick Sweet
Comments
Crap bev. You are not making this I'm-not-going-to-buy-anymore-books comment easy.
The good far outweighs the bad among the 15 Sherlock Holmes pastiches in this solid anthology from Jakubowski (Invisible Blood), mostly featuring authors new to the genre. Lavie Tidhar provides a tantalizing puzzle in “The Adventure of the Milford Silkworms,” in which a female client appeals for help understanding the connection between an assault on a botanist and goats acting oddly. Bev Vincent’s “Bloody Sunday” posits a clever plot behind one of the most notorious real-life riots of the Victorian era. Ashley Lister’s atmospheric “The Case of the Cursed Angel Tears” asks Holmes to unravel a series of seemingly supernatural deaths connected to a valuable jewel. Another standout is Matthew Booth’s “The Lancelot Connection,” which involves a stolen newly discovered Shakespeare play and murder. The stories with science fiction or fantasy elements fall short, and in general the contributors tend to be stronger on plotting than on recreating Watson’s narrative voice. Fans of MX Publishing’s New Sherlock Holmes Stories series will want to check this out. (Nov.)