The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part II (49 page)

Roger Johnson
BSI is a retired librarian, now working as a volunteer assistant at Essex Police Museum. In his spare time he is commissioning editor of
The Sherlock Holmes Journal
, an occasional lecturer, and a frequent contributor to the Writings About the Writings. His sole work of Holmesian pastiche was published in 1997 in Mike Ashley's anthology
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures
, and he has the greatest respect for the many authors who have contributed new tales to the present mighty trilogy. Like his wife, Jean Upton, he is a member of both
The Baker Street Irregulars
and
The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes.

Ann Margaret Lewis
attended Michigan State University, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. She began her writing career writing tie-in children's books and short stories for DC Comics. She then published two editions of the book
Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
for Random House. She is the author of the award-winning
Murder in the Vatican: The Church Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
(Wessex Press), and her most recent book is a Holmes novel entitled
The Watson Chronicles: A Sherlock Holmes Novel in Stories
(Wessex Press).

David Marcum
first discovered Sherlock Holmes in 1975, at the age of ten, when he received an abridged version of
The Adventures
during a trade. Since that time, David has collected literally thousands of traditional Holmes pastiches in the form of novels, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies and scripts, comics, fan-fiction, and unpublished manuscripts. He is the author of
The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Vol.'s I
and
II
(2011, 2013),
Sherlock Holmes and A Quantity of Debt
(2013) and
Sherlock Holmes - Tangled Skeins
(2015).
Additionally, he is the editor of the three-volume set
Sherlock Holmes in Montague Street
(2014, recasting Arthur Morrison's Martin Hewitt stories as early Holmes adventures,) and most recently this current collection,
The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories
(2015).
He has contributed essays to the
Baker Street Journal
and
The Gazette
, the journal of the Nero Wolfe
Wolfe Pack.
He began his adult work life as a Federal Investigator for an obscure U.S. Government agency, before the organization was eliminated. He returned to school for a second degree, and is now a licensed Civil Engineer, living in Tennessee with his wife and son. He is a member of
The
Sherlock Holmes Society of London
,
The John H. Watson Society
(“Marker”),
The Praed Street Irregulars
(“The Obrisset Snuff Box”),
The Solar Pons Society of London
, and
The Diogenes Club West (East Tennessee Annex)
, a curious and unofficial Scion of one. Since the age of nineteen, he has worn a deerstalker as his regular-and-only hat from autumn to spring. In 2013, he and his deerstalker were finally able make a trip-of-a-lifetime Holmes Pilgrimage to England, where you may have spotted him. If you ever run into him and his deerstalker out and about, feel free to say hello!

William Patrick Maynard
was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His passion for writing began in childhood and was fueled by early love of detective and thriller fiction. He was licensed by the Sax Rohmer Literary Estate to continue the Fu Manchu thrillers for Black Coat Press.
The Terror of Fu Manchu
was published in 2009 and was followed by
The Destiny of Fu Manchu
in 2012 and
The Triumph of Fu Manchu
in 2015. His previous Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in
Gaslight Grotesque
(2009/EDGE Publishing) and
Further Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
(2014/Titan Books). He currently resides in Northeast Ohio with his wife and family.

Sidney Paget
(1860-1908), a few of whose illustrations are used within this anthology, was born in London, and like his two older brothers, became a famed illustrator and painter. He completed over three-hundred-and-fifty drawings for the Sherlock Holmes stories first published in
The Strand
magazine, defining Holmes's image forever after in the public mind.

Chris Redmond,
BSI, is editor of the website
Sherlockian.Net
, and the author of
A Sherlock Holmes Handbook
,
In Bed with Sherlock Holmes
, and other books, as well as many Sherlockian articles. He is a member of the
Baker Street Irregulars
,
The Bootmakers of Toronto
,
The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes
, and other societies. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Robert V. Stapleton
was born and brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, and studied at Durham University. After working in various parts of the country as an Anglican parish priest, he is now retired and lives with his wife in North Yorkshire. As a member of his local writing group, he now has time to develop his other life as a writer of adventure stories. He has recently had a number of short stories published, and he is hoping to have a couple of completed novels published at some time in the future.

Sam Wiebe's
debut novel
Last of the Independents
was published by Dundurn Press. An alternative private detective novel set in the Pacific Northwest,
Last of the Independents
, won the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Unpublished First Novel. Sam's short fiction has been published in
Thuglit, Spinetingler,
Subterrain,
and
Criminal Element,
among others. Follow him at @sam_wiebe and at
samwiebe.com
.

Marcia Wilson
is a freelance researcher and illustrator who likes to work in a style compatible for the color blind and visually impaired. She is Canon-centric and her first MX offering,
You Buy Bones
, uses the point-of-view of Scotland Yard to show the unique talents of Dr. Watson. She can be contacted at
gravelgirty.deviantart.com

Vincent W. Wright
has been a Sherlockian and member of
The Illustrious Clients of Indianapolis
since 1997. He is the creator of a blog,
Historical Sherlock
, which is dedicated to the chronology of The Canon, and has written a column on that subject for his home scion's newsletter since 2005. He lives in Indiana, and works for the federal government. This is his first pastiche.

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