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Acknowledgments
Many years ago, I was chatting with a fellow geek at a fan gathering, and she began talking excitedly about a man whose name I thought was some sort of joke. She insisted that Benedict Cumberbatch was his real name, and that some day he’d be a megastar and we’d all be talking about him. So thank you to Laurie Reid for first putting him on my radar.
A huge thank you to David Caron and Jack David at ECW Press for asking me to write this book, and to Crissy Calhoun for her editorial cheerleading, much-needed deadline extension, and all-round awesomeness during the process. Thanks also to my copy editor, Jen Knoch, and proofreader, Rachel Ironstone, for catching so many little things that would have otherwise been embarrassing. And thank you to Troy Cunningham for his beautiful design, Samantha Dobson for being such a fun publicist, and Aleksandra Lech for that gorgeous illustration on the cover.
While I was working on the book, I relied on some friends to help me clarify a few issues along the way. Thank you to Alison Marriott for helping me understand the visa situation in China for my commentary on “The Blind Banker”; to Darline Allen for explaining how a leftie could have shot a gun with his right hand in the same episode; to Dave Baker, who actually tried calling John Watson’s phone number (which just rang busy, disappointing both of us); and to Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott for being my go-to British persons. Thanks to my friends and family who cheered me on and listened to me moan endlessly when my arms were aching from typing too much in a single day (especially Suzanne Kingshott, who got the brunt of it). To my beloved Slayage extended family, thank you for being so supportive of my writing — you have no idea how much your support means to me. And thank you also to the ladies of my Third Tuesday book club — Sue, Trish, Jeannette, Ashlie, and Darline — and the members of my Graphic Novel Group, who kept me reading other books as I was making my way through the Sherlock Holmes canon. And so much appreciation goes out to everyone who keeps me company on social media, making me laugh — and think — on a daily basis.
A huge thank you to Christopher Redmond, Peter Calamai, and Charles Prepolec for so affably weighing in with their thoughts on Sherlock. And I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the incredibly gracious Thelma Beam of The Bootmakers of Toronto for putting me in touch with my three Sherlockian scholars.
This book was written throughout the summer and fall of 2014, with the music of Winged Victory for the Sullen’s Atomos XI album playing almost constantly in the background. For the first time I wrote without my two feline muses, who’d been with me through the writing process of every one of my previous books. Instead I had two new furballs who did their best to replicate the requisite sitting on pages, chewing on my giant Penguin complete Sherlock Holmes edition, and making sure my notes were constantly flipped to the floor when I needed them. I want to thank my husband, Robert, for giving me writing time once again, and to my children, Sydney and Liam, who are finally old enough to start w
atching some of Mommy’s shows with her. While my daughter loved watching Sherlock, my son still seems to prefer Time Lords to Great Detectives. Everyone’s a critic.
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About the Author
Nikki Stafford is the author of the acclaimed Finding Lost series, as well as companion guides to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, Angel, and Xena: Warrior Princess. Nikki blogs regularly on her site, Nik at Nite (nikkistafford.blogspot.com). She lives in London, Ontario, where her mind palace is occupied by her husband and two children, several cats, and a few lizards, along with several million factoids that are probably useless and cause her to constantly forget why she just walked into a certain room. She should really declutter that brain attic.
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