Books to Read if You Love Sherlock Holmes

Books to Read if You Love Sherlock Holmes

There’s a particular kind of grief that settles in after you close the last page of “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.” You’ve read all sixty stories. You know the smell of Baker Street fog, the rhythm of Watson’s narration, the exact...
The Baker Street Letters: Start the Lucy James Mystery Series

The Baker Street Letters: Start the Lucy James Mystery Series

If you’ve just discovered that Sherlock Holmes has a daughter in this series and you’re wondering where to begin, you’re in the right place. We get this question constantly, and we love answering it. There’s nothing quite like handing a new...
Victorian London History in Detective Stories

Victorian London History in Detective Stories

Pick up almost any list of classic mystery fiction and you’ll find the same handful of sentences about foggy streets and gaslight. What those lists rarely explain is why that setting matters at all. Why does a mystery set in a real, richly textured Victorian...
Charles Veley and Anna Elliott: Authors of Sherlock and Lucy

Charles Veley and Anna Elliott: Authors of Sherlock and Lucy

If you’ve just finished a Sherlock and Lucy novel and found yourself searching for the names behind it, you’re not alone. Readers who fall for Lucy James, Sherlock Holmes’s daughter, and the woman carrying his detective legacy into new territory,...