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NBA legend to pen Sherlockian mystery

9 January, 2015

Footballer and manager Terry Venables did it in the 1970s. Champion jockey AP McCoy did it just last year. And now the former LA Lakers all-star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is to join them and write a crime novel. The retired athlete – one of the greatest…

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Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

By RoughJustice

16 October, 2014

Having experienced considerable critical and commercial success with The House of Silk, accomplished author Anthony Horowitz has returned to the world of Sherlock Holmes with his latest book. However, it might be more accurate to suggest he has entered Moriarty’s world, since this book’s narrative…

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First look: Moriarty by Horowitz

By crimefictionlover

5 October, 2014

Just the other day we posted a feature looking at the best Sherlock Holmes books that weren’t written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s almost as though we sent up a literary signal flare, because just like that a new book set in the Sherlock…

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Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann

By DavidPrestidge

15 August, 2014

Previously here on Crime Fiction Lover we’ve reviewed The Will of the Dead featuring Sherlock Holmes in a steampunk mystery, and The Executioner’s Heart from George Mann’s Newbury & Hobbes series set in Victorian times. This latest Conan Doyle pastiche takes us back to the…

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Gods of War by James Lovegrove

By RoughJustice

20 June, 2014

Last year we reviewed The Stuff of Nightmares, a Holmesian pastiche with science fiction and steampunk elements in which Lovegrove successfully steered a line between pleasing fans of traditional Conan Doyle mysteries and provided something new for readers. He returns now with an adventure set…

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Who Thinks Evil by Michael Kurland

By RoughJustice

25 March, 2014

Kurland’s Professor Moriarty series began in 1979 with The Infernal Device. It was an Edgar Award finalist and was also nominated for an American Book Award. Death by Gaslight, The Great Game, and The Empress of India followed. The series’ conceit is to tell stories…

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The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle

By RoughJustice

24 March, 2014

Crime fiction lovers might just remember the BBC TV series from 2001, The Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes. In it, David Pirie dramatised the early life of Arthur Conan Doyle, including his father’s death from alcoholism and his experiences as a medical…

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The Darke Chronicles by David Stuart Davies

By spriteby

10 March, 2014

David Stuart Davies is the creator of the wartime private detective Johnny Hawke, and the DCI Paul Snow series. On top of his crime writing, he also edits the CWA’s monthly magazine Red Herring, and Sherlock Magazine. He’s a Sherlock Holmes expert, and so it’s…

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NBA legend to pen Sherlockian mystery

Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz

First look: Moriarty by Horowitz

Sherlock Holmes: The Spirit Box by George Mann

Gods of War by James Lovegrove

Who Thinks Evil by Michael Kurland

The Revenant of Thraxton Hall by Vaughn Entwistle

The Darke Chronicles by David Stuart Davies

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