The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part X
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Mark Mower is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and The Solar Pons Society of London. He writes true crime stories and fictional mysteries. His first two volumes of Holmes pastiches were entitled A Farewell to Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Case-Files (both with MX Publishing) and, to date, he has contributed chapters to six parts of the ongoing The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. He has also had stories in two anthologies by Belanger Books: Holmes Away From Home: Adventures from the Great Hiatus - Volume II: 1893–1894 (2016) and Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street (2017). More are bound to follow. Mark’s non-fiction works include Bloody British History: Norwich (The History Press, 2014), Suffolk Murders (The History Press, 2011) and Zeppelin Over Suffolk (Pen & Sword Books, 2008).
Tracy J. Revels, a Sherlockian from the age of eleven, is a professor of history at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She is a member of The Survivors of the Gloria Scott and The Studious Scarlets Society, and is a past recipient of the Beacon Society Award. Almost every semester, she teaches a class that covers The Canon, either to college students or to senior citizens. She is also the author of three supernatural Sherlockian pastiches with MX (Shadowfall, Shadowblood, and Shadowwraith), and a regular contributor to her scion’s newsletter. She also has some notoriety as an author of very silly skits: For proof, see “The Adventure of the Adversarial Adventuress” and “Occupy Baker Street” on YouTube. When not studying Sherlock Holmes, she can be found researching the history of her native state, and has written books on Florida in the Civil War and on the development of Florida’s tourism industry.
Roger Riccard of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., is a descendant of the Roses of Kilravock in Highland Scotland. He is the author of two previous Sherlock Holmes novels, The Case of the Poisoned Lilly and The Case of the Twain Papers, a series of short stories in two volumes, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures for the Twelve Days of Christmas and Further Adventures for the Twelve Days of Christmas, and the new series A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases, all of which are published by Baker Street Studios. He has another novel and a non-fiction Holmes reference work in various stages of completion. He became a Sherlock Holmes enthusiast as a teenager (many, many years ago), and, like all fans of The Great Detective, yearned for more stories after reading The Canon over and over. It was the Granada Television performances of Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, and the encouragement of his wife, Rosilyn, that at last inspired him to write his own Holmes adventures, using the Granada actor portrayals as his guide. He has been called “The best pastiche writer since Val Andrews” by the Sherlockian E-Times.
Geri Schear is a novelist and short story writer. Her work has been published in literary journals in the U.S. and Ireland. Her first novel, A Biased Judgement: The Diaries of Sherlock Holmes 1897 was released to critical acclaim in 2014. The sequel, Sherlock Holmes and the Other Woman was published in 2015, and Return to Reichenbach in 2016. She lives in Kells, Ireland.
Shane Simmons is a multi-award-winning screenwriter and graphic novelist whose work has appeared in international film festivals, museums, and lectures about design and structure. His best-known piece of fiction, The Long and Unlearned Life of Roland Gethers, has been discussed in multiple books and academic journals about sequential art, and his short stories have been printed in critically praised anthologies of history, crime, and horror. He lives in Montreal with his wife and too many cats. Follow him at eyestrainproductions.com and @Shane_Eyestrain
Robert V. Stapleton was born and brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and studied at Durham University. After working in various parts of the country as an Anglican parish priest, he is now retired and lives with his wife in North Yorkshire. As a member of his local writing group, he now has time to develop his other life as a writer of adventure stories. He has recently had a number of short stories published, and he is hoping to have a couple of completed novels published at some time in the future.
Amy Thomas is a member of the Baker Street Babes Podcast, and the author of The Detective and The Woman mystery novels featuring Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. She blogs at girlmeetssherlock.wordpress.com, and she writes and edits professionally from her home in Fort Myers, Florida.
Kevin Thornton lives in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. It is a place chiefly known for being cold. How cold? The type of cold where Fahrenheit and Celsius meet at minus forty and say to each other, “We have to stop doing this.” Kevin writes poetry and short stories that are published and read by dozens of people, and books that are not. Nevertheless, he has been a finalist in the Canadian Crime Writers awards six times, and was honoured with the Literature “Buffy” award in his locale up there in the north (where we might have mentioned it is cold). Kevin is or has been a member of the Crime Writers Association, the Edmonton Poetry Festival, the International Thriller Writers, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, the Crime Writers of Canada, and the KEYS, the Catholic Writers Guild founded by two chaps called Chesterton and Knox, albeit before his time. He studied at one of those universities that had two Nobel Laureates in Literature on the staff. It didn’t seem to do much good. Kevin now works as a writer and editor, having been a contractor for the Canadian military, a member of the South African Air Force, and a worker of such peripatetic habits that he is now on his fourth continent and many-eth country.
Marcia Wilson is a freelance researcher and illustrator who likes to work in a style compatible for the color blind and visually impaired. She is Canon-centric, and her first MX offering, You Buy Bones, uses the point-of-view of Scotland Yard to show the unique talents of Dr. Watson. This continued with the publication of Test of the Professionals: The Adventure of the Flying Blue Pidgeon and The Peaceful Night Poisonings. She can be contacted at: gravelgirty.deviantart.com