Today’s post finishes off my reviewing for August and Writing the Murder was an unplanned bonus nonfiction read. The introduction begins with the general premise that crime fiction grew up alongside the development of law enforcement e.g. the rise of the modern-day police force etc. Not the most groundbreaking but I guess a book has […]| crossexaminingcrime
Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, […] The post Six Degrees of Separation – Ghost Cities to The Hound of the Baskervilles appeared first on A life in books.| A life in books
Another reading challenge? Who needs another reading challenge? Not me, surely… which is why I signed up for one. Right? Yup, that’s how these things go. This one, known as the “H…| BookWyrm Knits
The audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville is now available at Apple Books, as well as Audible and Amazon.| Jim Nelson
Introduction “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” is one of the 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First published in The Liberty, an American publication in November 1926, it was later collected as part of The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927, the final volume of Holmes […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Introduction The Adventure of the Gloria Scott” is one of the earliest tales in the Sherlock Holmes canon—not in terms of publication, but in the life of Holmes himself. It holds a unique position as a kind of origin story, revealing the moment when a young, university-aged Sherlock first flexed his deductive muscles. Told as […]| Golden Age of Detective Fiction
Update on the audiobook of A Man Named Baskerville, and the hardcover edition is about to be released.| Jim Nelson
The audiobook dropped this week on Audible.| Jim Nelson
Pre-orders for the special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville are now available.| Jim Nelson
And that's a wrap—MX Publishing's Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville closed earlier today with 81 backers pledging £1,842 (USD$2,241) toward the upcoming Special Edition hardback. Learn more about A Man Named Baskerville on my web site.| Jim Nelson
The Kickstarter for A Man Named Baskerville: Special Edition has raised nearly $1,700 in two weeks, and great donor rewards are still available.| Jim Nelson
MX Publishing's Kickstarter fundraiser is underway to launch a special hardcover edition of A Man Named Baskerville and an audiobook. Donors can receive rewards like signed copies and exclusive megapacks. Contributions will cover production costs. Please share the campaign!| Jim Nelson
Some time in early 2025, you should expect to see a new hardcover and audiobook of Baskerville. I'm especially excited about the audiobook, as this will be the first one produced for my novels.| Jim Nelson
It is well known that Harry Houdini had an interest in the afterlife and the paranormal. What if the magician pulled off the greatest trick of his life by escaping the bonds of death? Our guest Charlie Young, along with his sister Cheryl Young, have written a work of fiction called Houdini’s Last Handcuffs which […]| The Brophisticate
Let’s take a moment to reflect on what Tony Medawar has done in recent years for GAD fans, with Wicked Spirits (2024) being the eighth collection of lost, forgotten, and so-rare-they-doubt-th…| The Invisible Event
Sometimes the Holmes canon surprises me; I have very fond memories of certain stories, while others are almost a complete blank.| The Invisible Event
Is this the the best title in the Sherlock Holmes canon? I don’t mean the best story, but rather the most intriguing combination of words put together to entice you in.| The Invisible Event
Many authors and film-makers would seek to overturn this in the years ahead, but as far as the canon goes we find ourselves visiting Sherlock Holmes’ first ever case.| The Invisible Event
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes, solidly 15 of which must be among the most prized creations in the genre. The other 41, then, vary somewhat.| The Invisible Event
This slipped by me in February, but today I learned A Man Named Baskerville is reviewed positively at Melisende’s Library: This is the much needed backstory of the character of Stapleton from Conan Doyle’s “Hound of the Baskervilles”. It is exceedingly well done and in keeping with Conan Doyle’s original story. … Heartily recommended for […]| Jim Nelson
If you’re a NetGalley member, my Sherlock Holmes-inspired novel A Man Named Baskerville is now available for download and review. Baskerville is my take on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Told as a journal penned by the original’s villain, it relates his life story from a pauper’s childhood in the Empire of Brazil to life […]| Jim Nelson
My post on the history of Sherlock Holmes' copyright status has been indexed by Google but is not available via search. In other words, Google's servers have seen the post, they've analyzed the content, but they refuse to add it to their search engine for users to discover.| Jim Nelson