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Every Sunday we like to share a particular writer or a theme.  This week we are offering a choice of short story collections - up to five. Please use the contact us form, quote #Sherlock Sunday Short Stories and let us know which country you are from.  Please check your library so you don't ask for books already have (codes are hard to re-allocate).   Sherlock Holmes and the Folk Tale Mysteries, Volume 2   The Scrapbook of Sherlock Holmes   Canon of the Non-Sacred Writings   Dead Ringers   New Cases of Sherlock Holmes  

Week 7 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2023 We continue our quest to give away hundreds of Sherlock Holmes audio codes each week and this week it's a choice of three from five from the catalogue - including the brand new released this week Chris Chan collection - Of Course He Pushed Him. It's the first volume with the 2nd one coming soon. We keep the codes available until Sunday.  Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 7-2023 and let us know which country you are from. Please only ask for books you don't already have.  3 from 5 books this week...

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An extract from Memoirs from Mrs Hudson's Kitchen;  “The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks,” so said Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), a Scottish jurist, politician and historian. This maxim could easily be applied to Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson, since both often preferred coffee over tea throughout the day and into the night. A breakfast pot served hot and strong was mandatory. In Dr. Watson’s account of A Study in Scarlet the first mention of coffee was made. Dr. Watson “rose somewhat earlier than usual” and I was so accustomed to...

Week 6 - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2023 We continue our quest to give away hundreds of Sherlock Holmes audiocodes each week and this week it's a choice of three from five from the catalogue.   Kickstarter  There are three campaigns running; JUST 2 days left - Sherlock Holmes and The Unmasking of the Whitechapel Horror - Holmes, Watson and Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline solve the unmasking, arrest, trial and execution of the real Jack The Ripper. Just launched - The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 6. This collection is rather special. It contains all the Holmes stories written by the...