MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XV

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 XV in the popular MX series of new Sherlock Holmes stories features contributions from Mark Mower, Thomas Fortenberry, Robert Perret, Tracy J. Revels, Robert Stapleton, Peter Coe Verbica, Maurice Barkley, Edwin A. Enstrom, William Todd, Roger Riccard, Kelvin I. Jones, Arthur Hall, Jack Grochot, David Marcum, Dick Gillman, Will Murray, Tim Symonds, Mike Hogan, Leslie Charteris, Denis Green, Ian Dickerson, Nick Cardillo, Darryl Webber, with forewords from David Marcum, Will Thomas, Roger Johnson, Steve Emecz and Melissa Grigsby, and two poems from Christopher James.

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 17 juillet 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787054523
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
Part XV
2019 Annual
(1898–1917)






First edition published in 2019 by
MX Publishing
335 Princess Park Manor
Royal Drive, London, N11 3GX
www.mxpublishing.co.uk
Digital edition converted and distributed by
Andrews UK Limited
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Copyright © 2019 MX Publishing under exclusive license from the authors
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Stories in Companion Volumes
The following can be found in the companion volumes
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
Part XIII - 2019 Annual (1881-1890)
and
Part XIV - 2019 Annual (1891-1897)
PART XIII: 1881–1890
Inscrutable ( A Poem ) - 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 XIV: 1891–1897
Skein of Tales ( A Poem ) - Jacquelynn Morris
The Adventure of the Royal Albert Hall - Charles Veley and Anna Elliott
The Tower of Fear - Mark Sohn
The Carroun Document - David Marcum
The Threadneedle Street Murder - S. Subramanian
The Collegiate Leprechaun - Roger Riccard
A Malversation of Mummies - Marcia Wilson
The Adventure of the Silent Witness - Tracy J. Revels
The Second Whitechapel Murderer - Arthur Hall
The Adventure of the Jeweled Falcon - GC Rosenquist
The Adventure of the Crossbow - Edwin A. Enstrom
The Adventure of the Delusional Wife - Jayantika Ganguly
Child’s Play - C.H. Dye
The Lancelot Connection - Matthew Booth
The Adventure of the Modern Guy Fawkes - Stephen Herczeg
Mr. Clever, Baker Street - Geri Schear
The Adventure of the Scarlet Rosebud - Liz Hedgecock
The Poisoned Regiment - Carl Heifetz
The Case of the Persecuted Poacher - Gayle Lange Puhl
It’s Time - Harry DeMaio
The Case of the Fourpenny Coffin - I.A. Watson
The Horror in King Street - Thomas A. Burns, Jr.



Copyright information
“The Mysterious Mr. Rim” Copyright © 2018 Maurice Barkley.
“The Adventure of the Weeping Stone” Copyright © 2018 Nick Cardillo.
“The Case of the Haunted Chateau” Copyright © 1944, 2017 Leslie Charteris and Denis Green. Printed by permission of the Leslie Charteris Estate. Introduction Copyright © 2018 Ian Dickerson. Printed by permission of the author’s estate.
“Introduction - The Case of the Haunted Chateau” Copyright © 2018 Ian Dickerson.
“An Ongoing Legacy for Sherlock Holmes” Copyright © 2019 Steve Emecz.
“The Adventure of the Fatal Jewel-Box” Copyright © 2018 Edwin A. Enstrom.
“The Incomparable Miss Incognita” Copyright © 2019 Thomas Fortenberry.
“The Silver Bullet” Copyright © 2018 Dick Gillman and “The Boy Who Would be King” Copyright © 2019 Dick Gillman.
“A Word From the Head Teacher of Stepping Stones” Copyright © 2019 Melissa Grigsby.
“A Skeleton’s Sorry Story” Copyright © 2018 Jack Grochot.
“The Adventure of the Silent Sister” Copyright © 2018 Arthur Hall.
“Alas, Poor Will” Copyright © 2018 Mike Hogan.
“The First Floor Ghost” and “Sherlock of Aleppo” Copyright © 2019 Christopher James.
“When I Glance Over My Notes and Records” Copyright © 2019 Roger Johnson.
“The Devil’s Painting” Copyright © 2018 Kelvin I. Jones. A substantially different version of this story originally appeared in Carter’s Occult Casebook Copyright © 2011.
“Editor’s Introduction: The Great Holmes Tapestry” Copyright © 2018 David Marcum and “An Actor and a Rare One” Copyright © 2018 David Marcum.
“The Whitechapel Butcher” Copyright © 2018 Mark Mower.
“The Adventure of the Throne of Gilt” Copyright © 2018 Will Murray.
“The Adventure of the Twofold Purpose” Copyright © 2018 Robert Perret.
“The Adventure of the Green Gifts” Copyright © 2018 Tracy J. Revels.
“The Notable Musician” Copyright © 2018 Roger Riccard.
“The Turk’s Head” Copyright © 2018 Robert Stapleton.
“The Seventeenth Monk” Copyright © 2018 Tim Symonds and Lesley Abdela.
“Take Up and Read!” Copyright © 2019 Will Thomas.
“Mass Murder” Copyright © 2018 William Todd.
“A Ghost in the Mirror” Copyright © 2019 Peter Coe Verbica.
“The Adventure of the Three Telegrams” Copyright © 2019 Darryl Webber.








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.



Editor’s Introduction: The Great Holmes Tapestry
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