MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part I

David Marcum

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This is part one of a record-breaking ongoing collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories within this fantastic collection are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This particular volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, and includes contributions from John Hall, Hugh Ashton, Adrian Middleton, David Marcum, Jayantika Ganguly, Denis O. Smith, Amy Thomas, Kevin David Barratt, Luke Benjamen Kuhns, Summer Perkins, Deanna Baran, Shane Simmons, C.H. Dye, Mark Mower, Derrick Belanger , Daniel D. Victor, Steve Mountain, Stephen Wade, John Heywood, Will Thomas, Daniel McGachey, Martin Rosenstock, Craig Janacek... and a poem from Michael Kurland!

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 08 septembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781780928265
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
Part I: 1881-1889




First edition published in 2015 by MX Publishing
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Copyright Information
All of the contributions in this collection are copyrighted by the authors listed below. Grateful acknowledgement is given to the authors and/or their agents for the kind permission to use their work within these volumes.
“The Case of the Lichfield Murder” ©2015 by Hugh Ashton. All Rights Reserved. Hugh Ashton appears by kind permission of Inknbeans Press. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Case of the Vanishing Stars” ©2015 by Deanna Baran. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes” ©2015 by Kevin David Barratt. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Case of the Vanished Killer” ©2015 by Derrick Belanger. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Tale of the Forty Thieves” ©2015 by C.H. Dye. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Undershaw: An Ongoing Legacy for Sherlock Holmes” ©2015 by Steve Emecz. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
Sherlock Holmes photo illustration on back cover © 1991, 2015 by Mark A. Gagen. All Rights Reserved. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Defenestrated Princess” ©2015 by Jayantika Ganguly. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Slipshod Charlady” ©2015 by John Hall. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author
“The King of Diamonds” ©2015 by John Heywood. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Fateful Malady” ©2015 by Craig Janacek. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Study and Natural Talent” and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson photo illustrations on back cover and within the book ©2015 by Roger Johnson. All Rights Reserved. First publication of essay, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Foreword” Part I ©2015 by Leslie S. Klinger. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Allegro Mystery” ©2015 by Luke Benjamen Kuhns. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Sherlock Holmes of London – A Verse in Four Fits” ©2014 by Michael Kurland. Originally appeared in Mr. Kurland’s blog. First book appearance original to this collection. All Rights Reserved. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Pawnbroker’s Daughter” and “Editor’s Introduction: The Whole Art of Detection” ©2015 by David Marcum. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Seventh Stain” ©2015 by Daniel McGachey. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Kingdom of the Blind” ©2015 by Adrian Middleton. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Ululation of Wolves” ©2015 by Steve Mountain. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Strange Missive of Germaine Wilkes” ©2015 by Mark Mower. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Deadly Soldier” ©2015 by Summer Perkins. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Two Umbrellas” ©2015 by Martin Rosenstock. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Song of the Mudlark” ©2015 by Shane Simmons. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the authors.
“The Adventure of the Inn on the Marsh” ©2015 by Denis O. Smith. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Traveling Orchestra” ©2015 by Amy Thomas. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of Urquhart Manse” ©2015 by Will Thomas. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Aspen Papers” ©2015 by Daniel D. Victor. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Case of the Vanishing Inn” ©2015 by Stephen Wade. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
Photos of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson courtesy of Roger Johnson



Editor’s Introduction
The Whole Art of Detection
by David Marcum
Part I: The Great Watsonian Oversoul
According to Merriam-Webster, a pastiche is defined as a literary or artistic work that imitates the style of a previous work. Almost from the time that the first Sherlock Holmes stories began to appear in print, there were Holmes pastiches as well, side by side with the official sixty tales that are known as The Canon . Some from that period are more properly defined as parodies, but a few were written to sincerely portray additional adventures featuring Our Heroes, Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson,
I personally discovered pastiches at around the same time that I found the original Holmes stories, and began reading them just as eagerly as I did the material found in The Canon. In my mind, a well-written pastiche, set in the same correct time period as the originals, was as legitimate as anything written by the first – but definitely not the only! – of Watson’s literary agents, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the past, I’ve described the whole vast combination of Canon and pastiche as The Great Holmes Tapestry , with each providing an important thread to the whole, some brighter or thicker than others perhaps, but all contributing to the big picture. Perhaps another comparison would be to say that the union of Canon and pastiche forms a rope , with the Canonical adventures serving as the solid wire core, while all the threads and fibers of the additional pastiches bound around it provide greater substance and strength, with the two being indivisible.
I believe that pastiches have contributed immensely to the ever-increasing popularity of Holmes and Watson throughout the years. Additional cases and adventures serve only to feed the Sherlockian fire, and ideally refocus interest back on the original narratives. There are some Sherlockian scholars who want nothing at all to do with pastiches, and there are others who don’t even want to classify all of the original sixty stories as being authentic, stating in various essays and books that this or that Canonical tale is spurious. I cannot agree with them.
In my essay, “In Praise of the Pastiche” ( The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 62, No. 3, Autumn 2012), I argue that just sixty original stories relating incidents from Holmes’s career are simply not enough. There must be more about the world’s greatest consulting detective to justify that he is the world’s greatest consulting detective, rather than just a few dozen “official” stories that leave too much unanswered. Pastiches fill in the gaps and cracks.
In “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange,” Holmes tells Watson that “...I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook, which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume.” The vast amount of stories that make up the combination of both Canon and pastiche may not be – in fact, it certainly isn’t! – what Holmes had in mind, but it is the closest we’ll get to seeing and observing that overall tapestry of his life and work, the Whole Art of Detection .
Over the years, an incredible number of people have added to the body of work initially introduced by Watson’s first literary agent. Sometimes, people dis