The Collected Papers of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 7

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>At the age of ten in the mid-1970's David Marcum discovered Mr. Sherlock Holmes and from that point he knew that the original 60 Canonical adventures would never be enough. This coupled with his life-long desire to write meant that eventually he would find a way to add new stories to The Great Holmes Tapestry.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>The years passed and David collected read and chronologicized literally thousands of traditional Canonical Sherlockian pastiches. Then in 2008 with time on his hands while laid off from his civil engineering job during The Great Recession David finally found his way to Watson's Tin Dispatch Box producing </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>The Papers of Sherlock Holmes</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>. These first nine short stories originally sat on a shelf in his Holmes book collection before he eventually decided to share them with others. That first collection was initially published by a small press in 2011 and then in 2013 by the world's premiere Sherlockian publisher MX Publishing - and after that there was no turning back.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>Since then in addition to editing over 60 volumes (most of which are Sherlockian pastiche collections) David has written and published over 100 Sherlockian adventures in a variety of anthologies and magazines. Now these are being collected - along with a few others that haven't been seen before. The first five volumes were published as a set in 2021 containing 77 of David's Holmesian stories - and now we bring you 21 more some published for the first time!</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes the man described by the estimable Dr. Watson as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(40 40 40 1)>The game is afoot! </em></p>