Murder, My Dear Watson - (New Tales of Sherlock Holmes) by Jon L Lellenberg & Daniel Stashower & Martin H Greenberg (Paperback)

About the Book

Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy--in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers--including Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman-- celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes in this paperback version. In addition, Christopher Redmond illuminates the vast possibilities that new technology offers in "Sherlock Holmes on the Internet," while in "A Sherlockian Library" editors Lellenberg and Stashower provide a new list of fifty essential titles on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Holmes canon. Finally, an essay by mystery novelist Philip A. Shreffler explores one of English literature's most famous friendships in "Holmes and Watson, the Head and the Heart." This is truly a treasury of never-before-published Sherlockian tales that should not be missed.

Book Synopsis

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"

Review Quotes

"An homage to the master....There isn't an unpolished stone in the pile....Put this on your Christmas list for Holmes' many fans. Grade: A."

"Solid anthology...uniformly faithful to the spirit of Doyle's creation."

"This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf."

"Uniformly satisfying...remind[ing] readers of the elements of Conan Doyle's greatness: difficult puzzles, vivid but selective detail, and tight dialogue."

About the Author

Martin H. Greenberg, one of crime fiction's most awarded editors and anthologists, coedited The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with Jon Lellenberg, the executor of the estate of the late Dame Jean Conan Doyle.

Daniel Stashower is the author of the Edgar Award-winning biography Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Greenberg, Lellenberg, and Stashower also edited the widely praised anthology Murder in Baker Street.