As a child, TONY LEE was a reluctant reader and therefore never read any of the Sherlock Holmes novels, only ever reading of Holmes’s exploits in a special issue of DC comics Batman. That was until he saw Jeremy Brett’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes on TV in 1984. Following this, he devoured every one of Holmes’s adventures, in the process discovering a joy for reading that he has never lost. Now a #1 New York Times bestselling writer of comics, books, TV, and film, Tony has written for the world of Sherlock Holmes in both audio (The Confessions of Dorian Gray: Ghosts of Christmas Past) and comic form (his series of Baker Street Irregulars Graphic Novels were so popular, they were even made into a US stage play), but hopes more than anything to write something one day that redeems the poor, misunderstood and maligned Professor Moriarty. He can be found at www/tonylee.co.uk.
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times bestselling novelist, five-time Bram Stoker Award? winner, and comic book writer. He has been a longtime fan of Sherlock Holmes and wrote a Holmes story, “The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost,” which is based on the only case in American legal history where the testimony of a ghost was introduced in court and led to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan has also performed in regional theater in several one-act dramatizations of Holmes stories, playing Mycroft Holmes, James Moriarty, and Charles Augustus Milverton. He writes the Joe Ledger thrillers, the Rot & Ruin series, the Nightsiders series, the Dead of Night series, as well as standalone novels in multiple genres. His comic book works include, among others, Captain America, Bad Blood, Rot & Ruin, V-Wars, and others. He is the editor of many anthologies, including The X-Files, Scary Out There, Out of Tune, and V-Wars. His books Extinction Machine and V-Wars are in development for TV, and Rot & Ruin is in development as a series of feature films. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse, and the co-founder of The Liars Club. Prior to becoming a full-time novelist, Jonathan spent twenty-five years as a magazine feature writer, martial arts instructor, and playwright. www.jonathanmaberry.com Growing up in Edinburgh, CATRIONA MCPHERSON had Holmes, Watson, Conan Doyle, Deacon Brodie, Burke, Hare, Jekyll, and Hyde hopelessly muddled until she read her way to clarity in her teens. When she started writing her own fiction she was drawn back into their world, not so much for the gaslight and cobblestones as for the secrets and the shame. Edinburgh, rigidly respectable on the surface, is a great place for secret shame. She has written ten novels in a historical series set in Scotland, featuring private detective Dandy Gilver, which The Guardian calls “quietly subversive.” They have won Agatha, Macavity and Bruce Alexander awards and been shortlisted for a CWA dagger. Recently, she began a strand of contemporary standalones and has won two Anthony awards for these as well as being an Edgar? finalist for The Day She Died. Her latest is The Child Garden. You can find her at www.catrionamcpherson.com.
DENISE MINA has long been slightly obsessed by Joseph Bell, Doyle’s inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes. She studied and lives in Glasgow, a hop, skip and a jump from Edinburgh Medical School, where Bell taught his systematic reasoned deductions to Doyle himself. When not being a tedious pedant herself, she is the author of seven graphic novels, including the DC Comics adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy.” In her spare time she is the author of thirteen novels. Her first, Garnethill, won the CWA John Creasy Award for Best First Novel and the Spirit of Scotland Award. She is the author of the Paddy Meehan series, the second of which, The Dead Hour, was short listed for the Edgar?. The Paddy Meehan books have been brilliantly adapted for BBC Drama starring Peter Capaldi and David Morrissy. The Alex Morrow Series began with Still Midnight and includes the multi-award-winning End of the Wasp Season as well as her current book, Blood Salt Water. If you can bear to find out any more, her web site is www.denisemina.com. She whitters on Twitter at @DameDeniseMina.
DAVID MORRELL can’t remember a time when Sherlock Holmes wasn’t part of his imaginative DNA. Writing “The Spiritualist” gave him a wonderful impetus to re-read the Holmes Canon and re-enter the dizzying Great Game. A former literature professor at the University of Iowa, Morrell created the character of Rambo in his debut novel, First Blood. His numerous New York Times bestsellers include the classic spy novel The Brotherhood of the Rose, the basis for the only TV miniseries to be broadcast after a Super Bowl. An Edgar? and Anthony finalist, a Nero and Macavity winner, Morrell is a recipient of three Bram Stoker Awards? and the Thriller Master award from the International Thriller Writers organization. His latest novels are the Victorian mystery/thrillers Murder as a Fine Art and Inspector of the Dead. Visit him at www.davidmorrell.net.