Three Sherlockian Poems Three new selections from our ongoing series of Sherlockian Poems: A Rare Friendship, The Dark Valley of Fear, and Breakfast at 221B Baker Street. A RARE FRIENDSHIP To the Memory of Arthur Conan Doyle   All this was a long time ago. They lived together, day and night,   in heat and […]

The Hound of the Baskervilles Redux A Versification   The Baskerville Estate Near the Moors and Grimpen Mire of Devonshire (As Envisioned by Nathalia Mikhalchuk, 1907)   Chapter One: Introduction to the Moors:“When the wind blows cold o’er the moors at night” (“Tam Pierce” English Folk Song)   The skies they were ashen and sober, […]

Excerpt: Enemy Queen by Robert Steven Goldstein (The Strand Magazine proudly presents this excerpt from Robert Steven Goldstein’s Enemy Queen.) It was palpable the moment I entered the North Carolina house. The place felt completely different. I stood, confused and motionless, trying to assimilate how the ambiance could have veered so drastically in so short […]