Her website is: www.lauracaldwell.com.
JEFFERY DEAVER. A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages.
The author of thirty-three novels, two collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, he’s received or been shortlisted for a number of awards. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association, and his stand-alone novel Edge and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller The Broken Window were also nominated for that prize. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and the Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers’ Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award.
Deaver’s character, Lincoln Rhyme, the quadriplegic forensic detective, introduced in The Bone Collector, was largely inspired by Sherlock Holmes, who, the author has said, is the essential model for cerebral crime-solving protagonists.
Readers can visit his website at www.jefferydeaver.com.
MICHAEL DIRDA was invested into The Baker Street Irregulars in 2002 as “Langdale Pike.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning book columnist for the Washington Post, he is the author, most recently, of On Conan Doyle, which received a 2012 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His next book, Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting and Living with Books, will be published by Pegasus in 2015. This will be followed by a reappraisal of popular fiction during the late 19th and early 20th century, tentatively titled The Great Age of Storytelling. Please note that the revelations in “By Any Other Name” are, despite their shocking nature, just as genuine and historically accurate as Watson’s meticulous accounts of the many investigations undertaken by Sherlock Holmes.
At age 80, after 68 years as a writer, having won hundreds of awards, with almost 2,000 published stories, columns of opinion, essays, film & TV scripts, and 102 volumes of storytelling, HARLAN ELLISON has only this to say of himself: “For a while I was here; and for a while I mattered.”
CORNELIA FUNKE met Les Klinger at the L.A. Book Festival, where he was signing his annotated version of Sherlock Holmes. As he didn’t mind her German accent at all and the fact that she prefers to write for children, they became friends and have been ever since. Cornelia didn’t know that one day her daughter would live on the same street in London as Conan Doyle once did (she walks past the plaque quite regularly) or that one day she would stumble over his gravestone in an English village. Of course the next step had to be writing a story that honored one of the most impressive characters who ever escaped the pages of a book. Cornelia has published more than 60 titles in about 40 languages and 70 countries, but there has rarely been a greater and more thrilling honor in her writer’s life than Les asking her to write this story. She bows her head in gratitude—and hopes it won’t be her last encounter with the glorious Sherlock Holmes (and in her eyes equally glorious Doctor Watson).
Her website is at www.corneliafunke.com
ANDREW GRANT was born 118 miles north of 221B Baker Street in May 1968. He honed his deductive skills at St. Albans school, Hertfordshire and later progressed to the University of Sheffield where he studied English Literature and Drama. After graduation Andrew set up and ran a small independent theater company which showcased a range of original material to local, regional and national audiences. Following a critically successful but financially challenging appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Andrew moved into the telecommunications industry as a “temporary” solution to a short-term cash crisis. Fifteen years later, after carrying out a variety of roles—including a number which were covered by the U.K. Official Secrets Act—Andrew escaped from corporate life, and established himself as the author of the critically-acclaimed David Trevellyan series of novels—Even, Die Twice, and More Harm Than Good. His latest book, the standalone thriller RUN, was published in October 2014.
Andrew is married to novelist Tasha Alexander, and lives in Chicago, IL.
Further information is available on his website: www.andrewgrantbooks.com.
DENISE HAMILTON. As a child, Denise Hamilton was so terrified by The Hound of the Baskervilles that she swore never to visit a crumbling English manor house or traverse the moors. Luckily, she spent a college semester in London, saw the error of her ways and traveled widely throughout the U.K.
After years as an L.A. Times reporter, Denise turned to crime fiction. Her novels have been finalists for the Edgar and Willa Cather awards. She also edited the Edgar-awarding winning Los Angeles Noir anthology and Los Angeles Noir 2: The Classics. Her latest novel, Damage Control, was praised by James Ellroy as “A superb psychological thriller.” When not pondering new and interesting ways to kill people, she writes about perfume for the L.A. Times.
Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.
NANCY HOLDER is a New York Times bestselling author (the Wicked Saga, co-authored with Debbie Viguié). She has written many horror and young adult dark fantasy novels and over two hundred short stories. Her award-winning “tie-in” work for TV shows and iconic figures includes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf, The Rocketeer, Zorro, Nancy Drew, and Hellboy. She has received five Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association and her novels have appeared on recommended lists from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, and the New York Public Library’s Books for the Teen Age.
Her first Holmes encounter was watching Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, one of the Universal movies set during WWII, as a very young girl. It was shown on Science Fiction Theater. For several years thereafter, she thought that Holmes and Watson were Victorian time-travelers or had possibly had been reanimated to save England from the Nazis.
Leslie Klinger cleared up her confusion during a book event in Los Angeles, and next thing she knew, she had been invited to the Baker Street Irregulars’ Sherlock Holmes birthday weekend dinner in New York. Since then, she has enjoyed the company of BSI’s who have shown her their art collections and taken her on private walking tours of Holmes’s London. With the enthusiastic assistance of the Trust, she has discovered that she is related to the very Holder family whom Holmes assisted in “The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet.” Even more astounding, she has come into possession of Mary Holder’s diary. A second story based on this ignoble ancestress’s true-life exploits will appear in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. What? Nancy’s next book is The Rules, a teen thriller, from Penguin Random House. She lives in San Diego, California with her daughter, Belle.
Her website is www.nancyholder.com.
LAURIE R. KING, an award-winning, bestselling crime writer, is best known for her Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series that began in 1994 with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and continues with Dreaming Spies. She also writes mainstream crime novels, including a new series (Touchstone; The Bones of Paris) set in approximately the same time and place as the Russell & Holmes stories, although those characters have yet to meet. King figures that this series is a good fallback for when the Sherlockians worldwide catch on and rise up in horror at her temerity. In the meantime, she is still an invested member of the Baker Street Irregulars, known there as “The Red Circle.”
King and Les Klinger have bonded over the antics of the residents of 221B Baker Street, although by now it is hard to know who drags whom into their joint projects.
More can be found at her website: www.LaurieRKing.com.
LESLIE S. KLINGER is the Edgar-winning editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and more than 25 other books. Proud to have been called “the world’s first consulting Sherlockian,” he lectures and writes extensively on Holmes, Dracula, and the Victorian age, while squeezing in a full-time law practice. Having p
reviously confined his writing to footnotes, he is honored to be in the company of the authors presented in this volume.
More on Les at: www.lesliesklinger.com.
JOHN LESCROART is a New York Times bestselling author whose books, translated in more than twenty languages, have sold over ten million copies. John initially honed his Sherlockian interests in a series of formal Martha Hudson Dinners that he hosted during his twenties. His first hardcover book, Son of Holmes, posited the theory that Nero Wolfe (with the original alias of Auguste Lupa) was the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. The sequel, Rasputin’s Revenge, explored the connections between Moriarty, Rasputin, Sherlock Holmes, and Lupa in the closing months of World War I. John’s short story, “The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (edited by Sue Grafton).
LEAH MOORE AND JOHN REPPION are a husband and wife writing team based in Liverpool, U.K. Working together since 2003, the duo have written two full-length comic book mysteries starring the Great Detective and the Good Doctor—The Trial of Sherlock Holmes (2009), and Sherlock Holmes—The Liverpool Demon (2013). Holmes aside, Moore & Reppion have worked on projects as varied as adapting Bram Stoker’s Gothic masterpiece Dracula into a graphic novel, and creating the innovative Channel 4 Education (U.K.) web-series The Thrill Electric.
They can be found at: www.moorereppion.com.
(“The Problem of the Empty Slipper” was written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, with pencils by Chris Doherty, inks and lettering by Adam Cadwell.)
ADAM CADWELL is a cartoonist and storyboard artist based in Manchester, U.K. He is best known for his darkly comic Northern vampire series Blood Blokes and his autobiographical web-comic The Everyday. He is also the co-founder of the publishing group Great Beast and in 2012 founded the British Comic Awards. The film Young Sherlock Holmes terrified him as a child and he has never solved a mystery in his life. See more on Adam at: www.adamcadwell.com.
CHRIS DOHERTY is an illustrator based in Manchester, U.K. He wrote and illustrated the graphic novel Video Nasties (2011), and has done illustration and comics work for Mirage Studios, Electric Sheep Online Magazine and Cinema Sewer. He’s relatively new to Holmes and is catching up on his reading.
SARA PARETSKY’s entire idea of London is based on having read the Sherlock Holmes stories at an early age. It was a great disappointment on her first visit not to find hansom cabs still tooling the streets. When fog rolls in from Lake Michigan, shrouding the Chicago streets, she knows that “as you value your life and your reason, keep away from the moor.” Paretsky’s own detective, V. I. Warshawski, created through some twenty novels and collections of short stories, is an anti-Holmes, relying on instinct and psychology more than forensic evidence to solve crimes. Holmes was perhaps the ultimate response to the Victorian believe in human perfectibility through reason, while V.I., growing up in the nuclear, post-Shoah world, believes there’s always a psychopath lurking around a corner, prepared to kill us all because he thinks he’s been dissed. What V.I. and Holmes share is a restlessness that leads them to plunge into action—in V.I.’s case, it’s left her nearly dead in a swamp, trapped in a burning building, flung from the top of a high rise, and nearly drowned at sea. If she isn’t as brilliant a deductive reasoner as Holmes, she’s far more physically resilient.
For more about Paretsky or Warshawski, go to www.saraparetsky.com.
MICHAEL SIMS is the author of acclaimed nonfiction books such as The Adventures of Henry Thoreau and The Story of Charlotte’s Web. He has written about Sherlock Holmes in his own books as well as in some of the numerous anthologies he has edited, especially The Dead Witness in his Connoisseur’s Collection series for Bloomsbury. He has been the Distinguished Speaker at the annual meeting of the Baker Street Irregulars and is currently writing a book about the real people in the life of Arthur Conan Doyle who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
Michael’s web site is: www.michaelsimsbooks.com.
GAHAN WILSON is an American author, cartoonist, and illustrator. His cartoons (usually featuring lovingly horrific monsters) and prose fiction have appeared regularly in Playboy, the New Yorker, and Collier’s for over fifty years. He has drawn numerous cartoons depicting Holmes and Watson, and his 1998 novel Everybody’s Favorite Duck featured the detective Enoch Bone and his companion John Weston. Gahan received Lifetime Achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention and the National Cartoonists Association in 2005.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Without the perseverance, skill, sound advice, and patience of our attorneys Jonathan Kirsch and Scott Gilbert and their colleagues, the book would have never been published. They were aided by some exceptional volunteers, Prof. Betsy Rosenblatt and Darlene Cypser, Esq., who added much to the legal arguments. Our friends and “expert witnesses” Peter Blau and Steve Rothman went out of their way to assist because they believed in our case. The estimable Zoë Elkaim put in an extraordinary effort keeping the www.free-sherlock.com website up to date, on holidays, birthdays, and while in labor. Les’s wife Sharon never blinked at the time and cost of the endeavor, and cheered all along the way. And there were many others who donated money or enthusiasm or publicity to the effort—we’re happy that we were able to bring it to fruition.
Thanks too are due to agent Don Maass, who helped us through some unusual dealings; our courageous publisher Claiborne Hancock, who believed in us even in the darkest times; and of course family, friends, and perhaps most of all, our very, very patient contributors—many of whom said “yes” back in 2012 when it all sounded so simple, created their little masterpieces, and then had to wait and wait!
Deepest thanks to all, without whom this book would not exist.
L & L
SUPPLEMENTAL COPYRIGHT PAGE
Introduction copyright © 2014 by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
The Crooked Man copyright © 2014 by Michael Connelly
The Curious Affair of the Italian Art Dealer copyright © 2014 by Sara Paretsky
The Memoirs of Silver Blaze copyright © 2014 by Michael Sims
Dr. Watson’s Casebook copyright © 2014 by Andrew Grant
The Adventure of the Laughing Fisherman copyright © 2014 by Jeffrey Deaver
Art in the Blood copyright © 2014 by Laura Caldwell
Dunkirk copyright © 2014 by John Lescroart
The Problem of the Empty Slipper copyright © 2014 by Leah Moore and John Reppion. Illustrations for The Problem of the Empty Slipper copyright © 2014 by Chris Doherty and Adam Cadwell
Lost Boys copyright © 2014 by Cornelia Funke
The Thinking Machine copyright © 2014 Denise Hamilton
By Any Other Name copyright © 2014 Michael Dirda
He Who Grew Up Reading Sherlock Holmes copyright © 2014 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. All rights reserved. Harlan Ellison is a registered trademark of The Kilimanjaro Corporation.
The Adventure of My Ignoble Ancestress copyright © 2014 Nancy Holder
The Closing copyright © 2014 by Leslie S. Klinger
How I Came to Meet Sherlock Holmes copyright © 2014 by Gahan Wilson
IN THE COMPANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
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