The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part XI
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“The Adventure of the Priory School”
Holmes was retained in the case of the Ferrers Documents
The Abergavenny murder, which is coming up for trial
“The Adventure of Black Peter”
The sudden death of Cardinal Tosca - an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope
The arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East-End of London.
“The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”
NONE LISTED
“The Adventure of the Six Napoleons”
The dreadful business of the Abernetty family, which was first brought to Holmes’s attention by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day
The Conk-Singleton forgery case
Holmes was consulted upon the case of the disappearance of the black pearl of the Borgias, but was unable to throw any light upon it
“The Adventure of the Three Students”
Some laborious researches in Early English charters
“The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”
The repulsive story of the red leech
...and the terrible death of Crosby, the banker
The Addleton tragedy
...and the singular contents of the ancient British barrow
The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case
The tracking and arrest of Huret, the boulevard assassin
“The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”
Henry Staunton, whom Holmes helped to hang
Arthur H. Staunton, the rising young forger
“The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”
Hopkins called Holmes in seven times, and on each occasion his summons was entirely justified
“The Adventure of the Second Stain”
The woman at Margate. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can one build on such a quicksand? A woman’s most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tong
The Hound of the Baskervilles
That little affair of the Vatican cameos, in which Holmes obliged the Pope
The little case in which Holmes had the good fortune to help Messenger Manager Wilson
One of the most revered names in England is being besmirched by a blackmailer, and only Holmes can stop a disastrous scandal
The atrocious conduct of Colonel Upwood in connection with the famous card scandal at the Nonpareil Club
Holmes defended the unfortunate Mme. Montpensier from the charge of murder that hung over her in connection with the death of her stepdaughter Mlle. Carere, the young lady who, as it will be remembered, was found six months later alive and married in New York
The Valley of Fear
Twice already Holmes had helped Inspector Macdonald
His Last Bow
“The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge”
The locking-up Colonel Carruthers
“The Adventure of the Red Circle”
The affair last year for Mr. Fairdale Hobbs
The Long Island cave mystery
“The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans”
Brooks...
...or Woodhouse, or any of the fifty men who have good reason for taking Holmes’s life
“The Adventure of the Dying Detective”
NONE LISTED
“The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax”
Holmes cannot possibly leave London while old Abrahams is in such mortal terror of his life
“The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot”
Holmes’s dramatic introduction to Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street
“His Last Bow”
Holmes started his pilgrimage at Chicago...
...graduated in an Irish secret society at Buffalo
...gave serious trouble to the constabulary at Skibbareen
Holmes saves Count Von und Zu Grafenstein from murder by the Nihilist Klopman
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”
Negotiations with Sir George Lewis over the Hammerford Will case
“The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”
The Abbey School in which the Duke of Greyminster was so deeply involved
The commission from the Sultan of Turkey which required immediate action
The professional service for Sir James Saunders
“The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone”
Old Baron Dowson said the night before he was hanged that in Holmes’s case what the law had gained the stage had lost
The death of old Mrs. Harold, who left Count Sylvius the Blymer estate
The compete life history of Miss Minnie Warrender
The robbery in the train de-luxe to the Riviera on February 13, 1892
“The Adventure of the Three Gables”
The killing of young Perkins outside the Holborn Bar
Mortimer Maberly, was one of Holmes’s early clients
“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
Matilda Briggs, a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared
Victor Lynch, the forger
Venomous lizard, or Gila. Remarkable case, that!
Vittoria the circus belle
Vanderbilt and the Yeggman
Vigor, the Hammersmith wonder
“The Adventure of the Three Garridebs”
Holmes refused a knighthood for services which may, someday, be described
“The Problem of Thor Bridge”
Mr. James Phillimore who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world
The cutter Alicia, which sailed one spring morning into a patch of mist from where she never again emerged, nor was anything further ever heard of herself and her crew.
Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duelist who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science
“The Adventure of the Creeping Man”
NONE LISTED
“The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane”
NONE LISTED
“The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger”
The whole story concerning the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant
“The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”
Holmes ran down that coiner by the zinc and copper filings in the seam of his cuff
The St. Pancras case, where a cap was found beside the dead policeman. Merivale of the Yard, asked Holmes to look into it
“The Adventure of the Retired Colourman”
The case of the two Coptic Patriarchs
About the Contributors
The following contributions appear in this volume:
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
Part XI - Some Untold Cases (1880–1891)
Hugh Ashton was born in the U.K., and moved to Japan in 1988, where he remained until 2016, living with his wife Yoshiko in the historic city of Kamakura, a little to the south of Yokohama. He and Yoshiko have now moved to Lichfield, a small cathedral city in the Midlands of the U.K., the birthplace of Samuel Johnson, and one-time home of Erasmus Darwin. In the past, he has worked in the technology and financial services industries, which have provided him with material for some of his books set in
the 21st century. He currently works as a writer: Novelist, freelance editor, and copywriter, (his work for large Japanese corporations has appeared in international business journals), and journalist, as well as producing industry reports on various aspects of the financial services industry. Recently, however, his lifelong interest in Sherlock Holmes has developed into an acclaimed series of adventures featuring the world’s most famous detective, written in the style of the originals, and published by Inknbeans Press. In addition to these, he has also published historical and alternate historical novels, short stories, and thrillers. Together with artist Andy Boerger, he has produced the Sherlock Ferret series of stories for children, featuring the world’s cutest detective.
Deanna Baran lives in a remote part of Texas where cowboys may still be seen in their natural habitat. A librarian and former museum curator, she writes in between cups of tea, playing Go, and trading postcards with people around the world. This is her latest venture into the foggy streets of gaslit London.
Brian Belanger is a publisher and editor, but is best known for his freelance illustration and cover design work. His distinctive style can be seen on several MX Publishing covers, including Silent Meridian by Elizabeth Crowen, Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Melbournian by Allan Mitchell, Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt by David Marcum, Welcome to Undershaw by Luke Benjamen Kuhns, and many more. Brian is the co-founder of Belanger Books LLC, where he illustrates the popular MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes young reader series (#1 bestsellers on Amazon.com UK). A prolific creator, he also designs t-shirts, mugs, stickers, and other merchandise on his personal art site: www.redbubble.com/people/zhahadun.
Leslie Charteris was born in Singapore on May 12th, 1907. With his mother and brother, he moved to England in 1919 and attended Rossall School in Lancashire before moving on to Cambridge University to study law. His studies there came to a halt when a publisher accepted his first novel. His third one, entitled Meet the Tiger, was written when he was twenty years old and published in September 1928. It introduced the world to Simon Templar, aka The Saint. He continued to write about The Saint until 1983 when the last book, Salvage for The Saint, was published. The books, which have been translated into over thirty languages, number nearly a hundred and have sold over forty-million copies around the world. They’ve inspired, to date, fifteen feature films, three television series, ten radio series, and a comic strip that was written by Charteris and syndicated around the world for over a decade. He enjoyed travelling, but settled for long periods in Hollywood, Florida, and finally in Surrey, England. He was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association in 1992, in recognition of a lifetime of achievement. He died the following year.
Ian Dickerson was just nine years old when he discovered The Saint. Shortly after that, he discovered Sherlock Holmes. The Saint won, for a while anyway. He struck up a friendship with The Saint’s creator, Leslie Charteris and his family. With their permission, he spent six weeks studying the Leslie Charteris collection at Boston University and went on to write, direct, and produce documentaries on the making of The Saint and Return of The Saint, which have been released on DVD. He oversaw the recent reprints of almost fifty of the original Saint books in both the US and UK, and was a co-producer on the 2017 TV movie of The Saint. When he discovered that Charteris had written Sherlock Holmes stories as well - well, there was the excuse he needed to revisit The Canon. He’s consequently written and edited three books on Holmes’ radio adventures. For the sake of what little sanity he has, Ian has also written about a wide range of subjects, none of which come with a halo, including talking mashed potatoes, Lord Grade, and satellite links. Ian lives in Hampshire with his wife and two children. And an awful lot of books by Leslie Charteris. Not quite so many by Conan Doyle, though.
Craig Stephen Copland confesses that he discovered Sherlock Holmes when, sometime in the muddled early 1960’s, he pinched his older brother’s copy of the immortal stories and was forever afterward thoroughly hooked. He is very grateful to his high school English teachers in Toronto who inculcated in him a love of literature and writing, and even inspired him to be an English major at the University of Toronto. There he was blessed to sit at the feet of both Northrup Frye and Marshall McLuhan, and other great literary professors, who led him to believe that he was called to be a high school English teacher. It was his good fortune to come to his pecuniary senses, abandon that goal, and pursue a varied professional career that took him to over one-hundred countries and endless adventures. He considers himself to have been and to continue to be one of the luckiest men on God’s good earth. A few years back he took a step in the direction of Sherlockian studies and joined the Sherlock Holmes Society of Canada-also known as The Toronto Bootmakers. In May of 2014, this esteemed group of scholars announced a contest for the writing of a new Sherlock Holmes mystery. Although he had never tried his hand at fiction before, Craig entered and was pleasantly surprised to be selected as one of the winners. Having enjoyed the experience, he decided to write more of the same, and is now on a mission to write a new Sherlock Holmes mystery that is related to and inspired by each of the sixty stories in the original Canon. He currently lives and writes in Toronto, Buenos Aires, New York, and the Okanagan Valley and looks forward to finally settling down when he turns ninety.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Holmes Chronicler Emeritus. If not for him, this anthology would not exist. Author, physician, patriot, sportsman, spiritualist, husband and father, and advocate for the oppressed. He is remembered and honored for the purposes of this collection by being the man who introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. Through fifty-six Holmes short stories, four novels, and additional Apocryphal entries, Doyle revolutionized mystery stories and also greatly influenced and improved police forensic methods and techniques for the betterment of all. Steel True Blade Straight.
Steve Emecz’s main field is technology, in which he has been working for about twenty years. Following multiple senior roles at Xerox, where he grew their European eCommerce from $6m to $200m, Steve joined platform provider Venda, and moved across to Powa in 2010. Today, Steve is CCO at collectAI in Hamburg, a German fintech company using Artificial Intelligence to help companies with their debt collection. Steve is a regular trade show speaker on the subject of eCommerce, and his tech career has taken him to more than fifty countries - so he’s no stranger to planes and airports. He wrote two novels (one a bestseller) in the 1990’s, and a screenplay in 2001. Shortly after, he set up MX Publishing, specialising in NLP books. In 2008, MX published its first Sherlock Holmes book, and MX has gone on to become the largest specialist Holmes publisher in the world. MX is a social enterprise and supports two main causes. The first is Happy Life, a children’s rescue project in Nairobi, Kenya, where he and his wife, Sharon, spend every Christmas at the rescue centre in Kasarani. In 2014, they wrote a short book about the project, The Happy Life Story. The second is the Stepping Stones School, of which Steve is a patron. Stepping Stones is located at Undershaw, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former home.
Lyndsay Faye BSI, ASH is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books, including the Sherlockian volumes Dust and Shadow, about Sherlock Holmes’s attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper, and The Whole Art of Detection, containing fifteen Holmes adventures. Additionally, she has written The Gods of Gotham, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Seven for a Secret, The Fatal Flame, Jane Steele, and the forthcoming The Paragon Hotel. Faye, a true New Yorker in the sense that she was born elsewhere, lives in New York city with her husband, Gabriel.
Mark A. Gagen BSI is co-founder of Wessex Press, sponsor of the popular From Gillette to Brett conferences, and publisher of The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library and many other fine Sherlockian titles. A life-long Holmes enthusiast, he is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars and The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis. A graphic artist by profession, his work is often seen on the covers of The Ba
ker Street Journal and various BSI books.
Jayantika Ganguly BSI is the General Secretary and Editor of the Sherlock Holmes Society of India, a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and the Czech Sherlock Holmes Society. She is the author of The Holmes Sutra (MX 2014). She is a corporate lawyer working with one of the Big Six law firms.
Melissa Granger, Executive Head Teacher of Stepping Stones School, is driven by a passion to open the doors to learners with complex and layered special needs that just make society feel two steps too far away. Based on the Surrey/Hampshire border in England, her time is spent between relocating a great school into the prestigious home of Conan Doyle, and her two children, dogs, and horses, so there never a dull moment.
Denis Green was born in London, England in April 1905. He grew up mostly in London’s Savoy Theatre where his father, Richard Green, was a principal in many Gilbert and Sullivan productions, A Flying Officer with RAF until 1924, he then spent four years managing a tea estate in North India before making his stage debut in Hamlet with Leslie Howard in 1928. He made his first visit to America in 1931 and established a respectable stage career before appearing in films - including minor roles in the first two Rathbone and Bruce Holmes films - and developing a career in front of and behind the microphone during the golden age of radio. Green and Leslie Charteris met in 1938 and struck up a lifelong friendship. Always busy, be it on stage, radio, film or television, Green passed away at the age of fifty in New York.
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was born in Leeds, England. His amazing paintings, usually featuring twilight or night scenes illuminated by gas-lamps or moonlight, are easily recognizable, and are often used on the covers of books about The Great Detective to set the mood, as shadowy figures move in the distance through misty mysterious settings and over rain-slicked streets.