The Book of Extraordinary New Sherlock Holmes Stories: The Best New Original Stores of the Genre (Detective Mystery Book, Gift for Crime Lovers)

Holmes and Watson return in new detective stories by David Stuart Davies, Lavie Tidhar, Mark Mower, and more: "Highly recommended." —Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels This cornucopia of dark deeds, deduction, and derring-do contains never-before-published stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and other favorite Conan Doyle characters—written by some of today's best mystery and thriller writers and collected by one of the genre's eminent editors. Contributors include: Jon Courtenay Grimwood * Lavie Tidhar * David Stuart Davies * John Grant * Rose Biggins * David N. Smith * O'Neil De Noux * Rhys Hughes * Catherine Lundoff * Mark Mower * Matthew Booth * Martin Daley * Jan Edwards * Ashley Lister * Keith Brooke * Naching T.Kassa * Phillip Vine * Bev Vincent * Keith Moray * Nick Sweet "Lavie Tidhar provides a tantalizing puzzle in 'The Adventure of the Milford Silkworms,' in which a female client appeals for help understanding the connection between an assault on a botanist and goats acting oddly. Bev Vincent's 'Bloody Sunday' posits a clever plot behind one of the most notorious real-life riots of the Victorian era." — Publishers Weekly "Sometimes a brief zap of great writing is just what you're in the mood for or have time for. That's when anthologies like his are ideal...intellectually outstanding." — New York Journal of Books "The best short mystery and crime fiction of the year." —Leonard Carpenter, author of Lusitania Lost The appeal and popularity of Sherlock Holmes has never abated and the demand for new adventures of the iconic sleuth continues to this day, helped on by the latest, elegant TV series in which he is played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Some of the best contemporary writers of crime and mystery contribute each a brand new story featuring the mythical detective (and in many cases the obligatory John Watson and even, but whisperv it quietly, their nemesis Doctor Moriarty) as further examples of his awesome powers of deduction and his unerring quest for the truth, however improbable it might at first appear. This bumper volume includes stories by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Lavie Tidhar, David Stuart Davies, John Grant, Rose Biggins, David N.Smith, O'Neil De Noux, Rhys Hughes, Catherine Lundoff, Mark Mower, Matthew Booth, Martin Daley, Jan Edwards, Ashley Lister, Keith Brooke, Naching T.Kassa, Phillip Vine, Bev Vincent, Keith Moray, Nick Sweet. An anthology of brand-new stories from some of the best contemporary British and American writers of crime and mystery featuring the much-loved sleuth of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes, plus other favorite characters like John Watson, Doctor Moriarty, Irene Adler, and Mrs. Hudson A fabulous new collection of stories from legendary writer and editor Maxim Jakubowski featuring the mythical detective Sherlock Holmes from the best contemporary writers of crime and mystery