News — Book Launches

Out today – The Detective, the Woman and the Pirate’s Bounty

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In The Detective, The Woman and The Pirate’s Bounty, Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler retrace the steps of pirates as they uncover a conspiracy at the heart of Florida’s islands. Death threats and gangsters are not enough to stop the pair as they meet new friends and enemies while seeking pirate treasure and preserving law and order. “Thomas portrays this iconic character and his mannerisms brilliantly. The story was so good and is written in such a way that enables you to picture it happening; as if watching a film.  I’d most definitely like to read more from this author...

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Out next week - Lives Beyond Baker Street

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If you have ever read “A Scandal in Bohemia” and wondered what Watson’s allusion to “Mr. John Hare” means… if you aren’t sure who was in charge in southeast Asia when Mycroft Holmes mentions “the present state of Siam”… if you’re wondering about Watson’s portrait of General Gordon or Holmes’s Vernet relatives or what Scottish expert on poisons Scotland Yard consulted when the Baker Street duo weren’t available… this is your book. It provides one-paragraph biographies of 800 real-life Victorians and Edwardians who strolled down Oxford Street near Holmes and Watson or figured in the newspapers they read. That mention...

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Released today

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The Best and Wisest Man - Being A Reprint of the Reminiscences of Mrs. Mary Watson, née Morstan 1888: Dr. John H. Watson, Army Corps surgeon turned colleague of the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, decides not to assist in future cases as he is engaged to Mary Morstan. 1926: Mary Forrester discovers her mother’s diary, covering the years 1889 to 1893 — her marriage to Watson. What occurred in those years? How was the quintessential male friendship of Holmes and Watson seen through a woman’s eyes? How stable was a marriage where Watson was liable to abandon Mary at...

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April 14th - A Scandal in Bohemia, illustrated in Lego.

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April 14th - A Scandal in Bohemia, illustrated in Lego. The first in a new series with a new book each month. Amazon USA, Barnes and Noble USA, Amazon UK, Hive UK (free UK delivery) and free delivery worldwide from Book Depository.

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The Sherlock Holmes Hotel bookshop has got hold of some pre-publication copies of The Holmes Sutra

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The Sherlock Holmes Hotel bookshop has got hold of some pre-publication copies of The Holmes Sutra -  a collection of 160 mantras, some original, some from the Holmes stories and a test of your Holmes Mania Quotient (HMQ). http://www.parkplazasherlockholmesbooks.com/product/9781780925356/The+Holmes+Sutra

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