Description

The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News).

Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes.

Includes new tales by:

Sharyn McCrumb
Loren D. Estleman
Carolyn Wheat
Malachi Saxon
Jon L. Breen
Bill Crider
Colin Bruce
Lenore Carroll
Barry Day
Daniel Stashower

And brilliantly insightful essays including:

Christopher Redmond on illuminating the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet"
Editors Lellenberg and Stashower's "A Sherlockian Library" details fifty essential books for the Arthur Conan Doyle fan
Philip A. Shreffler's essay explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart"