MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XIV

David Marcum

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In 1881, a weary doctor - wounded while serving in the military in Afghanistan - returned to London, only to be introduced to a most unusual young man who was already making a name for himself as the world's first consulting detective. At that time, the young man and his unique colleague were only just in their late twenties, unaware of their legendary futures... but they would go on to become two of the most famous and recognizable figures in the world: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson.In 1887, Holmes and Watson's first investigation as a team - A Study in Scarlet - was published. The Sign of Four followed in 1890, and then, in 1891, the world was electrified with the publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the newly-formed Strand Magazine... and the world would never be the same! Through the remainder of the nineteenth Century and all the way through the twentieth, Holmes and Watson's fame would grow. We're now well into the twenty-first century, yet the much-loved duo are just as popular today - if not even more so.In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring stories set within the canon's correct time period, written by the very best of today's Sherlockian authors from around the world. That first anthology, spread over three huge volumes, contained sixty-three stories and was the largest collection of its kind assembled at the time. Response was immediately and overwhelmingly positive, and soon there were calls from fans for additional collections.Over 150 contributors so far have joined together from around the world to produce well over three hundred new adventures to honour Sherlock Holmes, the man described by Watson as "the best and wisest whom I have ever known."We now proudly present Parts XIII, XIV, and XV, three volumes which break the record of the initial triple offering, with an incredible sixty-six new adventures featuring the eternal duo Watson and Holmes. ***Part XIV in the popular MX series of new Sherlock Holmes stories features contributions from Charles Veley and Anna Elliott, Mark Sohn, David Marcum, S. Subramanian, Roger Riccard, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Arthur Hall, GC Rosenquist, Edwin A. Enstrom, Jayantika Ganguly, C.H. Dye, Matthew Booth, Stephen Herczeg, Geri Schear, Liz Hedgecock, Carl Heifetz, Gayle Lange Puhl, Harry DeMaio, I.A. Watson, and Thomas A Burns, Jr., with forewords from David Marcum, Will Thomas, Roger Johnson, Steve Emecz, Melissa Grigsby and a poem by Jacquelynn Morris.

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 08 juillet 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787054486
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
Part XIV
2019 Annual
(1891–1897)






First edition published in 2019 by
MX Publishing
335 Princess Park Manor
Royal Drive, London, N11 3GX
www.mxpublishing.co.uk
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Stories in Companion Volumes
The following can be found in the companion volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories: Part XIII - 2019 Annual (1881-1890) and Part XV - 2019 Annual (1898-1917)
PART XIII: 1881-1890
Inscrutable - Jacquelynn Morris
The Folly of Age - Derrick Belanger
The Fashionably-Dressed Girl - Mark Mower
The Odour of Neroli - Brenda Seabrook
The Coffee House Girl – David Marcum
The Mystery of the Green Room - Robert Stapleton
The Case of the Enthusiastic Amateur - S.F. Bennett
The Adventure of the Missing Cousin – Edwin A. Enstrom
The Roses of Highclough House - M.J.H. Simmonds
The Shackled Man - Andrew Bryant
The Yellow Star of Cairo - Tim Gambrell
The Adventure of the Winterhall Monster - Tracy Revels
The Grosvenor Square Furniture Van - Hugh Ashton
Bootless in Chippenham - Marino C. Alvarez
The Clerkenwell Shadow - Paul Hiscock
The Adventure of the Worried Banker - Arthur Hall
The Recovery of the Ashes - Kevin P. Thornton
The Mystery of the Patient Fisherman - Jim French
Sherlock Holmes in Bedlam - David Friend
The Adventure of the Ambulatory Cadaver - Shane Simmons
The Dutch Impostors - Peter Coe Verbica
The Missing Adam Tiler - Mark Wardecker
PART XV: 1898-1917
Two Poems – Christopher James
The Whitechapel Butcher – Mark Mower
The Imcomprable Miss Incognita - Thomas Fortenberry
The Adventure of the Twofold Purpose - Robert Perret
The Adventure of the Green Gifts – Tracy J. Revels
The Turk’s Head – Robert Stapleton
A Ghost in the Mirror - Peter Coe Verbica
The Mysterious Mr. Rim - Maurice Barkley
The Adventure of the Fatal Jewel-Box - Edwin A. Enstrom
Mass Murder - William Todd
The Notable Musician – Roger Riccard
The Devil’s Painting – Kelvin I. Jones
The Adventure of the Silent Sister – Arthur Hall
A Skeleton’s Sorry Story – Jack Grochot
An Actor and a Rare One - David Marcum
The Silver Bullet – Dick Gillman
The Adventure at Throne of Gil t - Will Murray
The Boy Who Would Be King – Dick Gillman
The Case of the Seventeenth Monk – Tim Symonds
Alas, Poor Will – Mike Hogan
The Case of the Haunted Chateau - Leslie Charteris/Denis Green
The Adventure of the Weeping Stone - Nick Cardillo
The Adventure of the Three Telegrams – Darryl Webber



Copyright Information
It’s Time copyright © 2018 Harry DeMaio
Child’s Play copyright © 2013, 2018 C.H. Dye
The Tower of Fear copyright © 2018 Mark Sohn
Take Up and Read! copyright © 2019 Will Thomas
Skein of Tales copyright © 2019 Jacquelynn Morris
The Poisoned Regiment copyright © 2018 Carl Heifetz
Mr. Clever, Baker Street copyright © 2018 Geri Schear
The Collegiate Leprechaun copyright © 2018 Roger Riccard
The Lancelot Connection copyright © 2019 Matthew Booth
The Case of the Fourpenny Coffin copyright © 2018 I.A. Watson
The Horror in King Street copyright © 2018 Thomas A. Burns, Jr
The Second Whitechapel Murderer copyright © 2019 Arthur Hall
The Threadneedle Street Murder copyright © 2018 S.Subramanian
The Adventure of the Crossbow copyright © 2018 Edwin A. Enstrom
The Carroun Document copyright copyright © 2018 David Marcum
A Malversation of Mummies copyright © 2009, 2018 Marcia Wilson
The Adventure of the Silent Witness copyright © 2018 Tracy J. Revels
The Adventure of the Jeweled Falcon copyright © 2018 GC Rosenquist
The Case of the Persecuted Poacher copyright © 2019 Gayle Lange Puhl
An Ongoing Legacy for Sherlock Holmes copyright © 2019 Steve Emecz
The Adventure of the Modern Guy Fawkes copyright © 2018 Stephen Herczeg
When I Glance Over My Notes and Records copyright © 2019 Roger Johnson
The Adventure of the Delusional Wife copyright © 2019 Jayantika Ganguly
The Adventure of the Scarlet Rosebud copyright © 2018 Liz Hedgecock
Editor’s Introduction: The Great Holmes Tapestry copyright © 2019 David Marcum
A Word From the Head Teacher of Stepping Stones copyright © 2019 Melissa Grigsby
The Adventure of the Royal Albert Hall copyright © 2018 Charles Veley and Anna Elliott
The Mystery of the Patient Fisherman copyright © 2002 Jim French. Included by kind permission of the author’s estate
The Grosvenor Square Furniture Van copyright © 2018 Hugh Ashton and j-views Publishing. This story is included by kind permission of j-views Publishing








The 2019 Annual, Parts XIII , XIV , and XV
of
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
are dedicated to
Joel Senter
Joel passed away in July 2018
He was a wonderful and very supportive Sherlockian, and he will be missed.



The Great Holmes Tapestry
Editor’s Introduction
by David Marcum
Way back in early 2015, when the world was a much simpler place, I woke up early one morning from a very vivid dream where I had edited a Sherlock Holmes anthology. Instead of going back to sleep, I arose and started thinking about it. What a wild hansom cab ride it’s been since then!
Who would have then suspected the future of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories ? Since that time, we’ve had over 330 new Sherlock Holmes adventures, plus poems and forewords, from over 150 contributors, and along the way, through the very generous efforts of the participants, we’ve raised over $40,000 for the Stepping Stones School for special needs students at Undershaw, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former homes. Additionally, the books have raised awareness of the school around the world.
Back in 2015, when the initial hope for a single book of possibly a dozen new Holmes tales had grown and grown to three massive simultaneous volumes of 63 new stories, I sat down to write a foreword. In it, I referred to a phenomenon that I had observed during my previous four decades of collecting, reading, and chronologicizing literally thousands of traditional Holmes stories: All of these different narratives - the pitifully few original sixty of The Canon and all the rest from so many other later literary agents - fit together remarkably well as one wonderful whole. To describe it, I coined the term The Great Holmes Tapestry , and I’ve been proud since then to see it mentioned that way in other places when describing The Big Picture of all these stories, and not just Watson’s initial sixty tales that crossed the First Literary Agent’s desk.
As I’ve explained in other locations, this Tapestry consists of the overall and complete lives of Holmes and Watson from birth to death, filling in all those pieces of the picture that the original Canon does not. The Canon indisputably makes up the main fibers of the illustration, but there are so many other pieces to examine. Another way to look at this is to think of all the days in a life. I’m sure that someone somewhere has calculated the amount of time in Holmes and Watson’s lives that are actually represented in The Canon. (There are always people who are carrying out these various scholarly tasks - counting the exact number of times a gasogene is used, for instance, or the total number of words uttered by Inspector Lestrade during all of his combined appearances. This information is undoubtedly out there - somewhere - if one just knows where to look.)
The actual amount of on-stage time chronicled in The Canon adds up to just a limited number of days. In Holmes and Watson’s full lifetimes - and as a deadly serious player of The Game, I emphatically declare that Holmes and Watson had very full lifetimes! - there were far more moments that have not been “officially” described than the little bit that is related within The Canon. Some would be satisfied with only ever knowing what’s related in The Official Sixty Adventures, endlessly examining and re-examining these cases and preferring to think of Holmes spending the rest of his time between cases moping about the Baker Street sitting room in a brown study limbo for weeks on end. And that isn’t correct at al