Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower

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Bibliographic Details

• Editors: Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower
• Title: Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
• Publisher: ‎ MJF Books
• Publication Date: January 1, 2007
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 277 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1567318053
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1567318050
• Item Weight: ‎ .85 pounds
• Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.1 x 9.75 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (may show some minor discoloration on page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News).

Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writers celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock Holmes.

About the Editors:

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. In addition, he was a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel.

Jon Lellenberg was born on February 6, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He is the son of Jack and Jessie Hazelbaker Lellenberg.

Lellenberg studied at Pembroke Country Day School till 1963. Then he received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Southern California School of International Relations in 1967. Three years later, he received a Master of Arts degree. In 1996 he received a Master of Science degree at National War College.

Jon Lellenberg was particularly known as the author of numerous books on matters of Sherlockian and Doylean. He received various awards including the Two-Shilling Award, Morley-Montgomery Award, and Defense Monitoring Services Medal from the United States Department of Defense.

Daniel Stashower is the author of The Boy Genius and The Mogul as well as the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is also the author of five mystery novels, the most recent of which is The Houdini Specter. Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashower's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.