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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

The Boy Sherlock Holmes

The Sherlock Holmes stories are by far my favourite detective stories of all time. James and I have watched all the videos and read most of the books.

Yesterday I gave a presentation for members of the Association of Canadian Publishers on online marketing. We were talking about how long it takes to make a blog post so I asked for a book from the audience--The Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock was the proffered title.

The Eye of the Crow turns out to be a series about a young Sherlock Holmes. The boy detective is as sharp and witty as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s senior Holmes--I’m looking forward to confirming that myself. The book is published this fall from Tundra Books.

Shane Peacock has a Flash site promoting the series.

[And now you know what I was on about yesterday. Oh, the arcane workings of my brain ...]