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Sherlock Holmes: Tales from the stranger's room #3
Sherlock Holmes: Tales From The Stranger's Room - Volume 3
Welcome back once more to the Stranger's Room. The fire is blazing so help yourself to a brandy, pull up a chair to the fire and enjoy these tales from established and new Holmesian writers. Encompassing as they do tradition, humour and quirkiness, there is something for everyone. Enjoy! David Ruffle, Danielle Gastineau, Soham Bagchi, David Marcum, Robert Perret, Mark Mower, Margaret Walsh, Anna Lord, Arthur Hall, Geri Schear, Jennifer Met, S F Bennett, Craig Janacek. Royalties from all the authors are being donated to Stepping Stones School at Undershaw.
- GenresMystery
224 pages, Paperback
Published August 3, 2017
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About the author
David Ruffle
27 books285 followersDavid Ruffle was born in Northamptonshire in the UK at an early age in 1956,yes..a long time ago. The school years passed by in a blur, or was he the blur ? He managed to extricate himself from the education system at 15 years of age and embarked on the adventure of life.
Eventually, said adventure took him to Dorset and the beautiful town of Lyme Regis in July of 2004.He felt immediately at home here and surprised himself by starting to write...first, poetry and later ghost stories. All the time he felt that Lyme Regis would be a perfect place for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to have an adventure, any kind of adventure ! And so...Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror was born. The story continues.
David is now with the MX publishing team and further titles have appeared; Sherlock Holmes and The Lyme Regis Legacy, Tales From The Stranger's Room (as contributor and editor),and Holmes and Watson: End Peace. A children's illustrated book, Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Snowman (with illustrations by Rikey Austin, another Lyme Regis resident and hugely talented to boot)saw the light of day in November 2012. Two weeks later the third and final part of the Sherlock Holmes/Lyme Regis trilogy appeared: Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Trials. Also in the offing is an outing to Scarborough for Holmes and Watson, a proposed tale of thievery, murder and cricket!(A collaboration).Meanwhile, he is still to be found in Lyme Regis, working away and drinking the odd cider, diet permitting. The Abyss: A Journey With Jack The Ripper is set to be published in December 2013.
On a whim he decided to try his hand at comedy resulting in A Twist of Lyme and Another Twist of Lyme. These were published in 2014 along with the final book in the trilogy, A Further Twist of Lyme. New for 2015 will be, Holmes and Watson: An American Adventure. 2016 will see the publication of Holmes and Watson: An Evening in Baker Street followed by The Gondolier and the Russian Countess, a Holmes and Watson adventure set in 1902 Venice. And with any luck, Sherlock Holmes and the Scarborough Affair should surface by the end of the year!
Eventually, said adventure took him to Dorset and the beautiful town of Lyme Regis in July of 2004.He felt immediately at home here and surprised himself by starting to write...first, poetry and later ghost stories. All the time he felt that Lyme Regis would be a perfect place for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to have an adventure, any kind of adventure ! And so...Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror was born. The story continues.
David is now with the MX publishing team and further titles have appeared; Sherlock Holmes and The Lyme Regis Legacy, Tales From The Stranger's Room (as contributor and editor),and Holmes and Watson: End Peace. A children's illustrated book, Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Snowman (with illustrations by Rikey Austin, another Lyme Regis resident and hugely talented to boot)saw the light of day in November 2012. Two weeks later the third and final part of the Sherlock Holmes/Lyme Regis trilogy appeared: Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Trials. Also in the offing is an outing to Scarborough for Holmes and Watson, a proposed tale of thievery, murder and cricket!(A collaboration).Meanwhile, he is still to be found in Lyme Regis, working away and drinking the odd cider, diet permitting. The Abyss: A Journey With Jack The Ripper is set to be published in December 2013.
On a whim he decided to try his hand at comedy resulting in A Twist of Lyme and Another Twist of Lyme. These were published in 2014 along with the final book in the trilogy, A Further Twist of Lyme. New for 2015 will be, Holmes and Watson: An American Adventure. 2016 will see the publication of Holmes and Watson: An Evening in Baker Street followed by The Gondolier and the Russian Countess, a Holmes and Watson adventure set in 1902 Venice. And with any luck, Sherlock Holmes and the Scarborough Affair should surface by the end of the year!
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September 5, 2017Hard to review this one as I bought it to support my good friend, Margaret Walsh, who wrote a charming piece for it.
Not being a Sherlockian or into the era....or into Holmes and Watson stories at all, I'm afraid I didn't read anybody else's works. Apologies to these contributors. It was not you, it was me.
I did look through the book and I have to say, it is a cute bit of fun. Great for those that are preoccupied (ie on a train and wanting a collection of short works so you can start and finish a piece between Stops) and for those who are just avid collectors of all writings Sherlock related.
As I only read the work of one contributor and flicked through the rest, I feel it would be dishonest to give the book a star rating. A review where I can disclose all, seems the happy medium.
Not being a Sherlockian or into the era....or into Holmes and Watson stories at all, I'm afraid I didn't read anybody else's works. Apologies to these contributors. It was not you, it was me.
I did look through the book and I have to say, it is a cute bit of fun. Great for those that are preoccupied (ie on a train and wanting a collection of short works so you can start and finish a piece between Stops) and for those who are just avid collectors of all writings Sherlock related.
As I only read the work of one contributor and flicked through the rest, I feel it would be dishonest to give the book a star rating. A review where I can disclose all, seems the happy medium.
August 29, 2017
This is an anthology for real fans of Sherlock Holmes. It features poems, haikus, riddles AND short stories for avid sherlockiana readers. Not being such, I mostly concentrated on the short stories, a genre I really like and that I consider a difficult form of expression.
My three stars are due to my inability to enjoy the anthology in its whole; some short stories I really disliked but I also found several to my taste...among my favorite authors the more swashbuckling Anna Lord, Arthur Hall for the atmosphere, Margaret Walsh for her short story's unusual point of view and her "Why Sherlock Holmes?" insight. I loved it. And I discovered that we practice the same sport, the spiders' whacking. I really hope to read some of her work again.
Please note that all the proceedings from the sales of this anthology will go to "The Stepping Stones "School for kids with chronic medical conditions, so it's a good opportunity to be entertained AND help some less than lucky child.
Highly recommended to all Sherlock and Holmes' fanatics. :)
My three stars are due to my inability to enjoy the anthology in its whole; some short stories I really disliked but I also found several to my taste...among my favorite authors the more swashbuckling Anna Lord, Arthur Hall for the atmosphere, Margaret Walsh for her short story's unusual point of view and her "Why Sherlock Holmes?" insight. I loved it. And I discovered that we practice the same sport, the spiders' whacking. I really hope to read some of her work again.
Please note that all the proceedings from the sales of this anthology will go to "The Stepping Stones "School for kids with chronic medical conditions, so it's a good opportunity to be entertained AND help some less than lucky child.
Highly recommended to all Sherlock and Holmes' fanatics. :)
July 30, 2017
Stories, poems, and a bit of fun!
My thanks go out to Steve and Timi at MX Publishing for my advance copy of this book!
Let me just say that it is difficult to take this book seriously. The stories themselves run the usual gambit from excellent to so-so. No problems there. But the book is filled with original Sidney Pagent Holmes illustrations with “Captain Obvious” style captions. There are puzzles to solve and each author has their top ten Holmes Canon stories list.
That said, I do find the book enjoyable. “Terror of the Green Man” by Robert Perret gets a “Best in Book” award from me, with David Marcum’s “The Affair of the Mother’s Return” a close second. I liked all of the poems, but Geri Schear’s “The Man on the Tor” was fantastic!
The puzzles were quite good, and by “quite good” I mean “largely beyond my abilities to solve.” I did get a few right but they are extremely challenging.
There is a play in the book, but anyone who has read my reviews knows that I do not read plays. I could sit for hours watching a stage play but I cannot read them. I cannot read screenplays or radio plays either. I just cannot get the mental image of what is happening from a play’s instructions about where each character is, background details, sound bites of trumpets, etc. I can follow the dialog, but that’ it.
I will give the book three stars…
Quoth the Raven…
My thanks go out to Steve and Timi at MX Publishing for my advance copy of this book!
Let me just say that it is difficult to take this book seriously. The stories themselves run the usual gambit from excellent to so-so. No problems there. But the book is filled with original Sidney Pagent Holmes illustrations with “Captain Obvious” style captions. There are puzzles to solve and each author has their top ten Holmes Canon stories list.
That said, I do find the book enjoyable. “Terror of the Green Man” by Robert Perret gets a “Best in Book” award from me, with David Marcum’s “The Affair of the Mother’s Return” a close second. I liked all of the poems, but Geri Schear’s “The Man on the Tor” was fantastic!
The puzzles were quite good, and by “quite good” I mean “largely beyond my abilities to solve.” I did get a few right but they are extremely challenging.
There is a play in the book, but anyone who has read my reviews knows that I do not read plays. I could sit for hours watching a stage play but I cannot read them. I cannot read screenplays or radio plays either. I just cannot get the mental image of what is happening from a play’s instructions about where each character is, background details, sound bites of trumpets, etc. I can follow the dialog, but that’ it.
I will give the book three stars…
Quoth the Raven…
September 11, 2017
I bought this book to support my best friend Danielle Gastineau, her stories are sweet, she is a great writer with a great imagination and talented to. As for the rest of the book I had no plans on reading the other stories, I am sure they are fine and good but I wanted to support a friend.
September 11, 2017
My friend Erica (who already posted a review) and I purchased this book to support my friend Danielle. She has natural talent for story telling and I do hope she writes and publishes more. I didn't read the other stories but I did give the book as a whole 5 stars.
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