Previous Post Sorry not to get an Untold Tales out this week. I'm under a bit of time pressure re deadlines and responsibilities, but I haven't forgotten it. Meanwhile, here's one of the things that distracted me. My long-delayed HOLMES AND HOUDINI novel finally came out this week. Below is the official blurb plus some links to a sample of the story and to an audio interview and a blog interview I recently did on the subject. IW *** HOLMES AND HOUDINI The Far Edge Club, rich bored thrill-seekers who play games with human life, man-hunt their most exciting prey, world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini. The iconic image of L'Inconnu, an unidentified drowned girl pulled from the Seine, becomes an inspiration for kidnap and murder. On the anniversary of a fateful meeting at Reichenbach Falls, Mr Sherlock Holmes receives a plaster death-mask of his old foe Professor Moriarty. A secret from a notorious South African concentration camp theatens to provoke mass murder in the capital of the British Empire. What better occassion to demand the alliance of Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, and rising star Harry Houdini, adventurer, escapologist, and showman extraordinare? I.A. Watson's first full-length Holmes mystery chronicles the meeting - the game is afoot and the show must go on! An account by Dr John H. Watson of his meeting with American impresario Mr Martin Beck, managing agent of Mr Harry Houdini (novel extract) A podcast about HOLMES AND HOUDINI wherein I.A. Watson chats with Art Sippo at ArtsReview. An interview about HOLMES AND HOUDINI and LABOURS OF HERCULES at Ralph's Rants. "Holmes and Houdini" by I.A. Watson ISBN-10: 0997786809 ISBN-13: 978-0997786804 Published by Airship 27 Release date: January 2017 Retail Price: $16.99 Kindle version available $3 e-version also available at The Airship 27 Hangar>/a>

I like the idea of this pairing quite a bit... It sounds like a natural premise, and yet not something I've really heard done before.

I'll check out the sample when I get the chance.