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Download & Review - Get it while it's hot, this is a one week deal! If you are truly passionate about reviewing and sharing your love of Sherlock Holmes books, then I invite you to claim your free reviewer copy of my new audiobook, courtesy of MX Publishing. Five Miles of Country by Gretchen Altabef (NEW AUDIOBOOK… Continue reading FREE AUDIOBOOK DEAL – FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY
“This elegant publication… cleverly develops an ingenious and original new plot, finally delivering to the reader a stunning conclusion to the novel.” Review by Julia Stoneham for The Historical Novel Society. The Historical Novel Society was founded in the UK in 1997. It was "conceived as something of a campaigning society for the support of… Continue reading Review of Five Miles of Country by The Historical Novel Society.
I sprang to my feet, my hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralysed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog. A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its… Continue reading HAPPY HOOOOOUNDAWEEN!!!
Give it a listen! FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY - A New Sherlock Holmes Adventure is out on audio. Just in time for the holidays. A FIVE-STAR Sherlock Holmes Mystery written from a women's perspective by Gretchen Altabef. Brilliantly narrated by J.T. McDaniel. J.T. McDaniel's Scottish lilt adds authenticity to the voices of Doctor Watson and… Continue reading FIVE MILES OF COUNTRY Audiobook is out NOW!
“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein Recently, a friend who I hadn’t seen in a long while asked how I became an author and how I learned to read my writing dramatically. By trusting my Muse. I learned that imagination expands exponentially when used daily. Championed… Continue reading Trust The Muse
Much of this post is taken from a May 1993 article: "THE CASE OF EDWARD HARDWICKE," by Kate Tyndall for The Washington Post. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND -- Well, I think he's the audience. I think he is the, sort of, receptor of the idea. I think Watson really is every-man and one has to remind oneself that… Continue reading Happy Birthday Watson & Ted
NEW 5-STAR REVIEW for Five Miles of Country Reviewed in the United Kingdom. Altabef triumphantly... brings in new characters... a great sense of period... expanded roles for Mrs Hudson... Irene Adler... Murray... an intriguing murder plot located on the world’s first film set... has the reader eager to turn the page and find out what… Continue reading A Bangingly Good read!
. . .details which I have to kind of make up to fill this kind of well, that Doyle so brilliantly left out." Jeremy Brett Thank you all. REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS made the cut!!! Enjoy the ride, it is truly remarkable! From Holmes's reconciliation with Watson in "The Empty House" to the truth about… Continue reading Top 20 MX Sherlock Holmes Audiobooks in June
REMARKABLE POWER OF STIMULUS by Gretchen Altabef. The exciting and heart-warming second adventure in the Rachel Holmes Trilogy. This week, grab your free audio codes and get inspired by adventures that blend mystery with the world of sport. If you haven't yet explored MX Publishing audio promotions, why not dive in now? Simply fill out… Continue reading SNAG YOUR FREE AUDIOBOOK
You look at THESE SCATTERED HOUSES, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation, and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there . . . Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone… Continue reading “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches” & My Sherlock Novels
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