A new Sherlock Holmes collection: alt.sherlock.holmes

Abaddon explores three different sides of Sherlock in alt.sherlock.holmes

Three novellas offer up fresh new visions of the Great Detective


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The Great Detective proves the equal of any mystery as he crosses continents, time and gender in Abaddon’s alt.sherlock.holmes, a collection of new Holmesian fiction exploring wildly different visions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved creation.

The collection follows on from Abaddon’s critically acclaimed 2014 Holmes-themed collection Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, and includes three novellas: Jamie Wyman’s The Case Of The Tattooed Bride, Gini Koch’s A Study In Starlets, and Glen Mehn’s The Power of Media.

Abaddon commissioning editor David Thomas Moore said:

“Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets was a highlight of my young career, bringing together some amazing talents to produce some fantastic stories on a topic close to my heart. I’m ecstatic to be returning to the great detective’s rather untidy office (or caravan), and to see more of these wonderful worlds.

The gritty, atmospheric carnival of Jamie’s ‘Hobohemia,’ the up-to-the-minute glitz of Gini’s ‘Single Ladies’ and the sweetly soulful counterculture scene of Glen’s ‘The Power of Media’ drew me relentlessly in, and they were all brilliant authors to work with.”

The novellas will be e-first publications, with a print collection due to hit retail in April 2016. All three authors are available for interview, as is commissioning editor David Thomas Moore.

Alt.sherlock.holmes is to be published in April 2016




The Case of the Tattooed Bride by Jamie Wyman

Publisher: Abaddon
Release Date: Out now!
Buy links: Amazon UK | US

Winter, and the Soggiorno Brothers’ Travelling Wonder Show has  pulled into its berth in Peru, Indiana; Sanford “Crash” Haus, proprietor and genius, and his friend, surgeon and retired soldier Jim “Dandy” Walker, are looking forward to a quiet few months. But then the Show’s old manager, Professor Sylvestri, comes into town, his ward in tow, and happily, too, because the Strong Man and the Tattooed Lady have just announced their betrothal, and the good Professor happens to be a minister. Preparations for the happy day begin, but it seems violence and misfortune attend on them...




A Study In Starlets by Gini Koch

Publisher: Abaddon
Release Date: Out now!
Buy links: Amazon UK | US
Sherlock Holmes and her new partner Dr. John Watson are settling in as roommates and consulting detectives in their new home in Los Angeles, when TV producers Joey Jackson and Tony Antonelli come to call. Their partner, Cliff Camden, has disappeared without a trace on the eve of filming for the new show. The LAPD aren’t interested and Watson doesn’t want to be involved, but Holmes takes the case. She’s just getting to grips with the case, amidstthe neurotic actors and the low-level sleaze that permeates the city, when a fresh murder turns everything on its head...




The Power of Media by Glen Mehn

Publisher: Abaddon
Release date: 1 April
Pre-order now: UK | US

The third novella by Glen Mehn, based on his story “Half There/All There,” is set in the drug-steeped, experimental world of Warhol’s Factory, will see Holmes and Watson exploring a mystery amidst the complex, emerging social, cultural and racial issues – and the fierce (and sometimes violent) changes – of the late ’sixties.