The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Original Stories by Eminent Mystery Writers

by Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Jon L. Lellenberg (Editor), Carol-Lynn Rössel Waugh (Editor)

Infernal machine / John Lutz --
Final toast / Stuart M. Kaminsky --
Phantom chamber / Gary Alan Ruse --
Return of the Speckled Band / Edward D. Hoch --
Adventures of the unique Holmes / Jon L. Breen --
Sherlock holmes and "The Woman" / Michael Harrison --
Shadows on the lawn / Barry Jones --
Adventure of the Gowanus abduction / Joyce Harrington --
Dr. and Mrs. Watson at home / Loren D. Estleman --
Two footmen / Michael Gilbert --
Sherlock Holmes and the muffin / Dorothy B. Hughes --
Curious computer / Peter Lovesey --
Adventure of the persistent marksman / Lillian de la Torre --
House that Jack built / Edward Wellen --
Doctor's case / Stephen King --
Second treaty / Daniel Stashower --
Adventure of the venomous lizard / Bill Crider --
Hostage to fortune / Anne Perry
Afterword: Moriarty and the real underworld / John Gardner.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Short Stories, Crime, Anthologies

404 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

For the 1950s anthologist and publisher of Gnome Press, see Martin Greenberg.

Reviews

[Gram · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches with the stand out stories being "The Doctor's Case" by Stephen King, which sees Holmes' faithful companion solve a locked-room mystery before the famous detective and "The Curious Computer" by Peter Lovesey, which brings Holmes into the computer age. But my favourite was the gloriously tongue-in-cheek one-act play "Dr. and Mrs. Watson at Home" by Loren D. Estleman, in which Mrs Watson makes it plain that all is not sweetness and light in the Watson household, with a marvellous sting-in-the-tail which involves "The Napoleon Of Crime" himself!!!

[Roberta Van · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed the Arthur Conan Doyle like stories. There were lots of references and tidbits from the original stories. Each author crafted an original story. One of my favorite parts were with each story was a picture from the Strand which had published Doyle’s original stories.

[Robert A · Rating 2 out of 5]

You can’t duplicate the master. Sorry folks it’s not the same