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Q&A

 

How did you decide where your book was going to take place?

Luxor and London were pretty much de rigeur for a story about Sherlock Holmes and the pharaoh’s curse. Monte Carlo was just for fun, and the Reichenbach Falls seemed like a good place to kill off Holmes. Wait! Did I say that? Did I do that?

A little bit about Holmes, a little bit about Tut, a little bit about me. Catch the whole piece at Fresh Fiction.

Behind the book

 

Where I blame it all on Doyle:

"There wasn’t supposed to be a third book. I mean, a second Sherlock Holmes book made sense, because I had already written it, lo these many years ago, as a screenplay. So my second book actually inspired my first one. that was alright. That was cool."

Read it all at Crimespree Mag.

Launch Day

 The tomb is now open.

Sherlock Holmes comes face to face with the boy king Tutankhamun and his curse. The Strange Case of the Pharaoh's Heart. Available today on Amazon and wherever books are sold.
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The Butterfly Cage review

When you pick up a Delafield and Malloy mystery you can be sure you’ll find certain elements: it will include every class of society, from debutantes to prostitutes; a wide expanse of geography, in this case from Manhattan way out west to Wyoming and way down south to Panama; a cast that brings historical figures to vivid life, from Buffalo Bill to William Howard Taft–and It will focus on issues as urgent today as they were a hundred years ago: in this case, the trafficking of young women. A...

Tom Robbins

“Challenge every single sentence; challenge it for lucidity, accuracy, originality, and cadence. If it doesn’t meet the challenge, work on it until it does.”

The post Tom Robbins first appeared on The Strange Cases of Sherlock Holmes.

John or Paul?

As an artist, which are you? Lennon or McCartney? The raw or the cooked? There are those artists who want to dig into themselves, confess themselves, use their souls as their source material. And then there are artists who hide behind their art, who use their art to please, to put on a hundred different masks. I think it’s true no matter what medium you work in: writing, acting, painting, etc. I adore Lennon, but I’m definitely a McCartney, hiding behind the voice of John Watson. (Not that a...

ARCS

Good news: if you’re an Edelweiss reviewer, my third Sherlock Holmes novel, The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart, is now available for advance reviews. Reviews are the lifeblood of any book, so I’d love it if you Weissers would download and read.

Available for download HERE

The post ARCS first appeared on The Strange Cases of Sherlock Holmes.

Cover Reveal

Okay…here it is, the cover reveal for The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart. Sherlock Holmes takes on the curse of Tutankhamun, along with Dr. Watson and the mysterious medium Estelle Roberts. Releasing March 19th from Seventh Street Books. Available for pre-order here on Amazon and most other places now.

Cover by the inimitable Jennifer Do.

Oh, and that’s an Egyptian scarab on the cover, not a flying cockroach. That’s my story, anyway.

The post Cover Reveal first appeared on The Stra...

Now Available:

Heads up!

A pub date has been set for book number three, The Strange Case of the Pharaoh’s Heart, in which our world-famous sleuth (along with the indefatigable Dr. Watson) investigates the curse of Tutankhamun: March 19, 2024.

And though it’s several months off, I’d really appreciate you pre-order (should you want to order) as it gives my publisher more confidence in me when it comes to deciding whether to publish my fourth book(which I’m hard at work on as we speak).

Pre-order no...

Review: Go Find Daddy

Launch date: Tomorrow, 7/11!

Modern society is a minefield, and was even before Covid-19. But there was a lot of discussion at the height of the pandemic as to how writers should handle such an event. Ignore it?—or plunge into it? Steve Goble elects to skip it, but in doing so he (intentionally) shines a light on its aftermath, and what it means to us going forward. The waning of trust—in institutions, in each other seems to have accelerated to dangerous new levels. A lot of readers were wait...