Steve Emecz's Blog: Musings of a Sherlockian Publisher - Posts Tagged "sherlock-holmes-pastiches"

The fourth volume (now totalling a huge 82 stories + other items) of the record breaking collection of new Sherlock Holmes traditional pastiches is now out on Amazon Kindle.



This volume will have particular interest with Conan Doyle fans as it includes a contribution from members of Sir Arthur's family.

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My Dear Watson is a very unusual book for two reasons. Firstly, its an award winning Sherlock Holmes novel that was written by an American writer but published first in Japanese - then many years later published in English, and generated so much interest back in Japan again that it was re-published once more in Japanese….

Secondly, it is pretty controversial. The title ‘My Dear Watson’ explains why Holmes’ never married or had romantic engagements by revealing that Sherlock Holmes was in fact a woman.

Whilst this didn't go down too well with traditionalists, the societies and critics felt that Margaret had done a great job;

“Margaret Park Bridges takes an even more revisionist approach in her novel My Dear Watson. The detective’s secret is disclosed at the very start of the book, and it’ll do no harm to reveal it here: Sherlock Holmes was a woman. It’s not a new idea but it’s handled here with great skill and confidence, and it has a purpose, to account for much of Holmes’ personality as described by Dr. Watson.’’ The Sherlock Holmes Society

As pastiches go, it's one of the most interesting ones we have published. As far as how it came to us via Japan it's certainly an unusual story with an even more unusual story. My Dear Watson