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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2023 - Week 2

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#THIF - Thank Holmes It's Friday 2023 - Week 2

Week 2 - 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 four from the catalogue.  Kickstarter  There are two campaigns running; 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. Holmes and Co - Books 4-6 (from eighteen) - Irene Holmes, Sherlock's daughter, continues the tradition as a detective.   Free Audiobooks Please use the contact us form, quote #THIF 2-2023 and let us know which country you are from....

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The Top 10 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks for December 2022

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The Top 10 Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks for December 2022

Congratulations to David Marcum and Luke Barton for topping the charts for December with Eye of Heka. Also worth a mention Kevin E Green who appeared three times in the top 10 including 2nd... 1.   Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Heka – David Marcum and Luke Barton 2.   Sherlock Holmes and the Return of the Whitechapel Vampire – Dean P. Turnbloom and Kevin E Green 3.   New Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Janet Shaw and Ben Carling 4.   The Undiscovered Archives of Sherlock Holmes – John Lawrence and Adam Blanford 5.   A Continuum of Sherlock Holmes Stories – Jay Ganguly and Kevin E Green 6.   The Rediscovered Annals of Sherlock...

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Books to Books 2023

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Books to Books 2023

Following the success of our 2020 #bookstotrees campaign, where we funded 1,000 trees at Happy Life Mission in Kenya, in August 2020 we launched  #bookstobooks.    With the expansion of the Happy Life schools, the team are providing education not just for the 160 kids at Happy Life, but also hundreds more from the local community. One of the most challenging things to fund is curriculum schoolbooks which are expensive to import into Kenya. With our #bookstobooks project, we have funded hundreds of schoolbooks. Every $50 spent on the MX Publishing website we have donated $5 (the average cost of...

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Sherlock Sunday - Jack The Ripper

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Sherlock Sunday - Jack The Ripper

To celebrate the upcoming launch of the new book by Frank Emerson, Sherlock Holmes and The Unmasking of the Whitechapel Horror - which Reedsy describe as "A gripping and engrossing tale of suspense, intrigue, deduction, and dogged determination." - we are giving a selection of Sherlock Holmes and Jack The Ripper audiobooks this weekend. Please choose UP TO THREE audiobooks from the five choices that you would like to receive codes for.  Please use the contact us form, quote #Sherlock Sunday Jack The Ripper! 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...

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Sherlock Holmes and The Unmasking of the Whitechapel Horror

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Sherlock Book Reviews - Sherlock Holmes and The Unmasking of the Whitechapel Horror

Sherlock Holmes Society of London This is the first Holmesian pastiche of its kind that I have read. I assume that there have been others on this theme. The narrative brings together the eternal mystery over the identity of Jack the Ripper and the successful prosecution and subsequent execution of a multiple murderer. In other words, Jack the Ripper is, in this book, satisfactorily dealt with albeit only indirectly. The police detectives are, as usual, ably assisted by Sherlock Holmes with Watson acting as usual as a mere chronicler. The book is full of Canonical references which the author no...

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