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MX New Sherlock Holmes Stories #18
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XVIII: Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth 1899-1925
In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today’s leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow. And now we present a new three-volume set. Like 2017’s two-volumes set, Eliminate the Impossible, this new collection, Whatever Remains . . . Must Be the Truth features tales of Holmes’s encounters with seemingly impossible events – ghosts and hauntings, cults and curses, mythical beasts and mediums, angels and demons, and more.
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.
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.
436 pages, Paperback
First published October 31, 2019
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November 13, 2021
Another massive tome. Another Sixteen solid, competent, readable pastiches, preceded by interesting 'Forewords'. My favourites among these sixteen were~
1. Thomas A. Burns Jr.'s "The Witch of Ellenby";
2. Craig Janacek's "The Adventure of the Fair Land";
3. Paul Hiscock's "The Cassandra of Providence Place";
4. Arthur Hall's "The Adventure of the House Abandoned";
5. M.J. Elliott's "The Winterbourne Phantom";
6. David Marcum's "The Unnerved Estate Agent"— best story of this collection;
7. S.F. Bennett's "The Case of the Ivy-Covered Tomb".
Overall, a satisfactory compilation to spend time with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Recommended.
1. Thomas A. Burns Jr.'s "The Witch of Ellenby";
2. Craig Janacek's "The Adventure of the Fair Land";
3. Paul Hiscock's "The Cassandra of Providence Place";
4. Arthur Hall's "The Adventure of the House Abandoned";
5. M.J. Elliott's "The Winterbourne Phantom";
6. David Marcum's "The Unnerved Estate Agent"— best story of this collection;
7. S.F. Bennett's "The Case of the Ivy-Covered Tomb".
Overall, a satisfactory compilation to spend time with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Recommended.
January 18, 2020
An excellent assortment of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, true to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's style.
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