With the beginning or Winter and the colder nights I’ve decided to start a new project whilst waiting for feedback on my latest submission to MX Publishing. I had the idea that there are a lot of Sherlock Holmes’ canon where Sherlock makes brief references to having been involved with the main protagonist before or…
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Sherlock Holmes
Was Holmes always an anthology detective?
Why Sherlock Feels Most at Home in Shorter Forms When most people think of Sherlock Holmes, they think of novels like The Hound of the Baskervilles. But the truth is, Holmes was never really a novelist’s detective. His natural home was always the short story, and by extension, the anthology. Holmes and The Strand Arthur…
Why I Began With The Great Hiatus
I began with a simple question: “Why has no one written significant pastiches about the period known as the Great Hiatus in Sherlockian canon?” And I couldn’t find a suitable answer. When Conan Doyle sent Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls in 1891, the world thought him dead. Three years later, in The Adventure of the…
Footsteps on the Moor
Now helping to feed those in need As Sherlock Holmes might say there’s no such thing as coincidence, but I rather like the timing of this. Footsteps on the Moor is now available directly from my publisher here and every copy bought through their website provides a meal via the World Food Programme’s ShareTheMeal initiative….
Kickin Tunes Radio Interview
Well yesterday I had my first ever live radio interview about a piece of work I have produced. It was with a friend of mine Stray Cat who is a DJ on Kickin FM Tunes 96.9 which is part of ALLFM community radio station in Manchester, UK. They’ve won a Gold Award for community broadcasting…
Echoes from 221b on the Radio
This Thursday I have the pleasure of being interviewed by a friend of mine on the community radio station Kickin Tunes: All FM 96.9. The radio station is run by volunteers and covers the Manchester, UK area. It has a range of shows producing diverse content for the communities of Manchester via AllFM . The…
Welcome to Echoes from 221b
Pull up a chair, settle into your favourite armchair, and welcome to Echoes from 221B a space for wandering through the shadows of Baker Street and beyond. This isn’t strictly a Sherlock Holmes reread blog (though I wouldn’t rule that out). Think of it more as a place where Holmes-adjacent thoughts live the odd deduction,…