My new Mondadori yellowback is out in Italian, The Keys of Death. Inside you will also find Luigi’s usual appendix, while in the Classics of the Yellow, the story “Where do they sell Chihuahuas?” by Marco Azzalini, winner of the 2025 Giaveno Yellow Award, will be included in the appendix.
With Ida Lupino on the cover! She is one of my role models as the primary woman Hollywood director. She directed over 40 films and over 100 TV shows. A prominent actress who transitioned to directing in the late 1940s and 1950s, becoming the primary female film director working in Hollywood during that era. If you’ve ever wondered who was responsible for the 60s golden age of TV, it was Ida Lupino and her The Filmakers Inc. Company (Batman, Giligan’s Island, The Twilight Zone, Columbo, Charlie’s Angels, many more.)
Gretchen Altabef is an award-winning author of sensational new Sherlock Holmes mysteries written from a woman’s perspective. THESE SCATTERED HOUSES brings Holmes to New York during his ‘great hiatus’. REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS follows in London. During the investigation of a gruesome murder, Sherlock seizes a second chance with THE woman, and they marry in anarchist-ridden Paris. The series continues with FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY. Holmes is called in by Thomas Edison to solve a murder in his unique film studio. While Mrs Irene Adler-Holmes triumphs on Broadway despite the antics of a theater ghost. THE KEYS OF DEATH is a genesis story of 221B Baker Street and its inhabitants, as told by Mrs Hudson and Dr Watson. Sherlock Holmes FAR & WIDE mystifies with nine stories and one play, including the award-winning “Sir Arthur And The Time Machine”.
