{"id":4319,"date":"2017-08-10T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T10:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2017-08-26T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T13:13:29","slug":"holmes-dauntless-detective-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/holmes-dauntless-detective-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLMES & THE DAUNTLESS DETECTIVE BOOKSHELF"},"content":{"rendered":"

In which Sherlock Holmes goes canonical with MX Publishing, goes speculative with Belanger Books, and finally goes downright supernatural with Willie Meikle<\/strong><\/span>. We also call in on Vernon Loder’s<\/strong> 1928 classic murder novel The Mystery at Stowe<\/em>, and revisit The Department of Dead Ends<\/em> by Roy Vickers<\/strong>. So today’s article is for anyone who like a good crime or detective story. Unless you insist it has to be set on the mean streets of Glasgow with an alcoholic Scottish police officer barely hanging on to his job. We might have one of those in a later article, mind you…<\/p>\n

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The Great Detective<\/h1>\n

So, first out of the cells is Sherlock Holmes, with two huge collections of new Holmes tales coming up this Autumn. In the interests of full disclosure, we note that John Linwood Grant<\/strong>, the old reprobate, has stories in both, but you can always pull his stories out and feed them to the cat.<\/p>\n

The ideas behind these particular anthologies were too cool to miss out on, which is why he chanced it. Authentic Holmes with a special twist, and a new version of Wellsian fiction. Who could resist?<\/p>\n

1) Eliminate The Impossible<\/h3>\n

For MX Publishing, the Holmes scholar and editor David Marcum<\/strong> has put together two volumes of new stories under the title Eliminate the Impossible<\/em>. These are Volumes VII and VIII of the MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories<\/em> – forty eight new tales specially written for Halloween.<\/p>\n

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All the stories are set in the canonical world of the great detective, with the stimulating proviso that these are cases which initially appear<\/strong><\/em> to have some supernatural element \u2013 until Holmes is through with them. JLG<\/strong> contributed ‘The Second Life of Jabez Salt’<\/em>, a curious tale about a hanged man who has apparently returned to threaten those who turned on him…<\/p>\n

Royalties will go to Stepping Stones<\/strong>, a school for children with learning difficulties) for specific projects such as the new literary program. The Kickstarter has already exceeded its goals, but if you want to take up one of the offers, you’ll find it here, along with details of the authors:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1229605719\/eliminate-the-impossible-sherlock-holmes?token=fd92312c<\/a><\/p>\n

2) In the Realms of H G Wells<\/h3>\n

Our second Holmes for the day is another anthology with a somewhat different approach. Derrick Belanger<\/strong> and C. Edward Davis<\/strong> have collected more than twenty exciting tales which take Holmes into the imaginative realms of H G Wells<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Drawing on Wells’s speculative stories, here our detective hero has to consider some truly strange conundrums which take him out of his usual zone. Although Conan Doyle and Wells had their occasional differences, you would hope they might appreciate a work which explores both their creations.<\/p>\n

This, like Eliminate the Impossible<\/em>, is a two volume anthology, with a wealth of wonders. Have the Martians returned \u2013 or did they ever leave? What altered beasts dwell in the shadows? And what could Cavor’s last words from the moon really mean? The anthology includes ‘The Affair of the Red Opium’,<\/em> a novelette by greydog<\/em>. Gosh.<\/p>\n