The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Barbara Roden, ' The Adventure of the Suspect Servant'. Barbara Roden (b. 1963) is a Canadian enthusiast of the ghost and mystery story who helped found the first Canadian Holmes society west of the Rocky Mountains, the Stormy Petrels of British Columbia, in 1987. With her husband, Christopher Roden, she is joint organizer of the Arthur Conan Doyle Society. They also operate the specialist ghost-story press Ash-Tree Press and the Calabash Press devoted to books about Sherlock Holmes. 'The Adventure of the Suspect Servant' won

a pastiche contest sponsored by the Bootmakers of Toronto in 1989 but is published here in a slightly revised form for the first time.

Denis O. Smith, ' The Adventure of the Silver Buckle'. Smith (b. 1948) is a dedicated Sherlockian scholar who has produced a number of Holmesian pastiches starting with The Adventure of the Purple Hand, issued from his own Diogenes Publications. All are listed in Appendix II and have been reissued by Calabash Press with a new story as The Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes. He also has a passion for old maps and Victorian railways, both of which are germane to Holmes's adventures. Although a Yorkshireman by birth he now lives in Norfolk with his wife and three daughters.

Guy N. Smith, 'The Case of the Sporting Squire'. Smith (b. 1939) was both a bank clerk and a gamekeeper before he settled down to full-time writing in 1975. He is probably still best remembered for his early gruesome horror novels such as The Sucking Pit, The Slime Beast and the best-selling Night of the Crabs, and though most of his sixty or more books are horror fiction, he has produced other material including westerns and, rather surprisingly, film novelizations of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty and Song of the South, as well as books for children under the alias Jonathan Guy. He began his writing career selling mystery and horror short stories to the London Mystery Magazine and has long been a devotee of Sherlock Holmes.

PeterTremayne, 'The Affray at the Kildare Street Club'. Peter Tremayne (b. 1943) is the pseudonym of Celtic scholar and historian Peter Berresford Ellis who, under his own name, has written many books tracing the history and myth of the Celts, including The Celtic Empire, Celt and Saxon and Celt and Greek. In the fiction field he established an early reputation for his books of horror and fantasy, particularly his Dracula series collected in the omnibus Dracula Lives!, and his Lan-Kern series based on Cornish mythology, which began with The Fires of Lan-Kern. He is now, perhaps, best known for his series of historical mysteries featuring the seventh-century Irish Advocate, Sister Fidelma, in

the books Absolution by Murder, Shroud for an Archbishop, Suffer Little Children, The Subtle Serpent and The Spider's Web.

RobertWeinberg, 'The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman' with Lois H. Gresh. Weinberg (b. 1946) is an American bookdealer, collector and author who has written a number of novels of fantastic fiction. He has produced several featuring occult detective Alex Werner, starting with The Devil's Auction, plus a sequence of humorous fantasy novels which began with A Logical Magician.

DerekWilson, 'The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity'. DerekWilson has written over thirty books of history, biography and fiction, including the acclaimed family biographies, Rothschild: A Story of Wealth and Power and The Astors 17631922: Landscape with Millionaires. He also also written two fascinating books on the circumnavigation of the globe, The World Encompassed – Drake's Voyage 1577-1580 and The Circumnavigators. In the world of mystery fiction he has created the character of Tim Lacy, international art connoisseur and investigator whose cases have been chronicled in The Triarchs, The Dresden Text and The Hellfire Papers.

Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley is a full-time writer, editor and researcher with almost a hundred books to his credit. He has compiled over fifty Mammoth Books including The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy and The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries. He has also written the biography of Algernon Blackwood, Starlight Man, and a comprehensive study The Mammoth Book of King Arthur. He lives in Kent with his wife and three cats and when he gets the time he likes to go for long walks.

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