alt.sherlock.holmes

Three very different Baker Streets. Three very different Sherlocks. Three extraordinary new cases.

Brilliant, distracted, sarcastic, abrasive, superior, fiercely loyal and—above all—ferociously principled, Sherlock Holmes is a hero for all times. Every era has its thieves and monsters, its exploiters and abusers, and in every era the detective of Baker Street will piece together the clues and bring the guilty to book.

In alt.sherlock.holmes, the creators of Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets have invited three talented writers to bring startling visions of the Great Detective and the redoubtable Doctor Watson to the page: as a carnival owner and fortune teller in the ’thirties American Dust Bowl, as a drugged-up, tuned-out weirdnik in ’sixties New York City, and as the most irregular consultant in present-day Hollywood.

The game’s afoot! Whether hunting a vandal, a killer, or a shadowy conspiracy, in Indiana, California or New York, Holmes and Watson are on the case.

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.