TOC: The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes edited by John Joseph Adams
Editor John Joseph Adams has launched the website for his anthology, The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which sports nice cover art by David Palumbo. Check out the site for lots of cool info about the anthology, like links to online versions for some of the stories and non-fiction pieces, in multiple formats. This is not just a collection of detective stories; they span multiple genres. Here’s the table of contents:
- “The Doctor’s Case” by Stephen King
- “The Horror of the Many Faces” by Tim Lebbon
- “The Case of the Bloodless Sock” by Anne Perry
- “The Adventure of the Other Detective” by Bradley H. Sinor
- “A Scandal in Montreal” by Edward Hoch
- “The Adventure of the Field Theorems” by Vonda N. McIntyre
- “The Adventure of the Death-Fetch” by Darrell Schweitzer
- “The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland” by Mary Robinette Kowal
- “The Adventure of the Mummy’s Curse” by H. Paul Jeffers
- “The Things That Shall Come Upon Them” by Barbara Roden
- “Murder to Music” by Anthony Burgess
- “The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor” by Stephen Baxter
- “Mrs Hudson’s Case ” by Laurie R. King
- “The Singular Habits of Wasps” by Geoffrey Landis
- “The Affair of the Forty-Sixth Birthday” by Amy Myers
- “The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey” by Peter Tremayne
- “The Vale of the White Horse” by Sharyn McCrumb
- “The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger” by Michael Moorcock
- “The Adventure of the Lost World” by Dominic Green
- “The Adventure of the Antiquarian’s Niece” by Barbara Hambly
- “Dynamics of a Hanging” by Tony Pi
- “Merridew of Abominable Memory” by Chris Roberson
- “Commonplaces” by Naomi Novik
- “The Adventure of the Pirates of Devil’s Cape” by Rob Rogers
- “The Adventure of the Green Skull” by Mark Valentine
- “The Human Mystery ” by Tanith Lee
- “A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman
- “You See But You Do Not Observe” by Robert J. Sawyer
There is also A Sherlockiana Primer by Christopher Roden and John Joseph Adams’s Introduction and Acknowledgements.
Why does Bradley H Sinor repeatedly refer to Prince Albert Victor as third in line to the British Throne in the Adventure of the Other Detective, when he was in fact second in line?