{"id":22337,"date":"2026-07-22T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=22337"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:24:08","slug":"sherlock-holmes-consulting-detective-vols-19-20-and-the-paralipomena-of-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2026\/07\/22\/sherlock-holmes-consulting-detective-vols-19-20-and-the-paralipomena-of-sherlock-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective,’ Vols. 19-20 and ‘The Paralipomena of Sherlock Holmes’"},"content":{"rendered":"

So with this posting, I have caught up with the excellent Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective<\/em> series from Airship 27<\/a>. This time I go over volumes 19 and 20, which are the most recent volumes.<\/p>\n

\"Sherlock<\/a>As I don’t know when the next volume will come out, I didn’t want to delay covering these two too long; I’ve added a bonus of another volume of I.A. Watson<\/a><\/strong>‘s Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/strong> stories from Airship 27 as well: The Paralipomena of Sherlock Holmes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Each of these volumes is well designed, with good to great cover artwork by different authors, interior art by Rob Davis<\/a><\/strong>. Each story has an essay by the author, running one to three pages, about their work and the background on it. And we get a brief bio of each author. This is what I expect from New Pulp publishers, which we don’t always get.<\/p>\n

In volume 20, they really made some interesting changes for this milestone volume, which I’ll note below. Few New Pulp series get that far.<\/p>\n

Some of the same authors appear in various volumes, with I.A. Watson in every volume, as usual.<\/p>\n

Volume 19<\/h3>\n

We get four stories by I.A. Watson, Ray Lovato<\/a><\/strong>, and Jonathan Casey<\/a><\/strong>. Ray Lovato provides two stories.<\/p>\n

First up from Lovato, Holmes is approached by a Catholic cardinal for help with an esoteric issue. A new gospel, hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives, has been found that will rock the foundations of the church. Someone wants to smuggle it out, which would help the Anglican Church in its conflict with the Catholic Church. Can Holmes and Dr. Watson<\/strong> assist with this, which will entail them heading to Rome, where they will be aided by an American monsignor?<\/p>\n

The second story from Lovato has a killer who leaves verse that points to his next victim. Can Holmes figure out who the murderer is before he can kill again?<\/p>\n

From I.A. Watson, we get a story set during the Shropshire Olympian Games, a local forerunner and inspiration to the modern Olympic Games. A group of men is preparing for the games, hoping to use their success at the games to win the hand of a young maiden. But when one of them who happened to follow the same training path as another is murdered using a spear similar to those owned by another, do we have a murder over this rivalry? And was the wrong person murdered? Holmes will need to unravel this mystery to expose the true culprit. Or is that culprits?<\/p>\n

And finally, from Jonathan Casey, we get a strange case that starts out slowly. Holmes notices a small item in the newspapers about a literary professor who died after stepping off his bedroom balcony. But he suspects this might have been murder instead of an accident. Soon Holmes and Watson are heading to the small town where he lived to look into matters. What will they find? And if there has been a murder, can they expose the one behind it?<\/p>\n

Volume 20<\/h3>\n

We get six stories by I.A. Watson, Teel James Glenn<\/a><\/strong>, Ray Lovato, and Michael Black<\/a><\/strong>, along with several extra items.<\/p>\n

From I.A. Watson, we get the cover story that ties in The Strand<\/em> magazine, which is where Holmes first appeared in print. The Strand<\/em> ran from 1891 to 1950 and was a popular British fiction magazine, similar to the pulps.<\/p>\n

Set after Holmes’s return, Watson is contacted by the publishers about a murder at the magazine. While looking into it, they learn another editor has recently died, though at home. Are these two connected? Will Holmes solve the mystery before more die? This one is a bit complex due to the many people Holmes has to interview.<\/p>\n

Another story is set in a courtroom where Holmes is an expert witness and explains how the defendant is not the murderer, but someone else is. While I am sure Holmes appears as a witness in many cases, I have never read a Holmes story set in a courtroom, so this was an interesting change.<\/p>\n

Ray Lovato and Michael Black team up on a story set before WWI. Mycroft<\/strong> comes to Holmes with an issue with German spies trying to get information on their new super battleship. Working with a British secret agent, can Holmes and Watson expose and stop the spy ring?<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>From Teel James Glenn, we get two shorter stories. The first finds Holmes and Watson on a train to Wales, where they encounter a recently engaged couple and have to deal with a not-nice person and the death of another passenger. Not quite your typical story, but a good one nonetheless. The second is a Watson solo story set shortly after the events at Reichenbach Falls. Here, he is asked to look into the murder of a prince of a small European nation. Will he be able to use the method of Holmes to figure out the crime and expose the murderer? He also provides a poem.<\/p>\n

The Paralipomena of Sherlock Holmes<\/em><\/h3>\n

This is a volume of seven Holmes stories by I.A. Watson. A “paralipomena” is a variant of an accepted text, which is one way of looking at pastiches.<\/p>\n

Of these stories, three appeared in volumes of The MX Volume of New Sherlock Holmes Stories<\/em> series and one appeared in After the East Wind Blows: WWI and Roaring Twenties Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/em>, Vol. 1. As I haven’t read them, they are all new to me. And like all of I.A. Watson’s stories, expect footnotes.<\/p>\n

The first story is set early in the career of Holmes when Watson started to live with him and centers around the use of forensic science to solve a crime as he and Watson are asked to help with a coroner’s inquest of a strange murder. The victim was sewn into a sack and tossed into a stream to drown, following a Roman practice for punishing fratricide. Can he use forensics to identify the victim and perhaps indicate who murdered him?<\/p>\n

The second story focuses on a character whom Holmes uses as an identity, where he is a secure courier for various people. But sadly, when criminals go after the character and another, and kill them, Holmes must expose the murders.<\/p>\n

In the next story, Holmes and Watson are called in to help a college retrieve a possible lost play by William Shakespeare<\/strong>. A former student has found this while examining the library of his grandfather, now under the control of his uncle, but after it was put on display at the college library, it went missing with a sort of ransom note left behind. Along the way, we learn of other such rumored lost plays. Is this an actual lost play, or something else? Interestingly, Holmes will deal with this character in the future.<\/p>\n

“The New York Crakster” includes some secondary characters of Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/strong> who appeared in previous I.A. Watson stories: Jemmy Wilson the Nottingham Crakster<\/strong> and Catherine Cusack<\/strong>. Here we get a story earlier in their lives when they arrive in New York and proceed to steal from the unjust and give to the poor. There is actually little with Holmes here, as the focus is on the actions of the two pranksters, but it’s still a fun story.<\/p>\n

In another story, Holmes and Watson are brought in for a kidnapping case involving a politician. His toddler son has gone missing, and they receive a ransom note demanding he vote a certain way on a bill and pay 2,000 pounds. Looking into matters, he discovers the toddler is actually the man’s nephew, orphaned when his brother and his wife passed after the child was born, so he adopted the boy. He is able to solve the mystery, which turns out to be quite bizarre.<\/p>\n

When Holmes and Watson visit a confectionery factory, they run into a falling out between criminals over the daughter of one of them. She has fallen in with one of their customers, but there is more to him than most of them know. Can Holmes and Watson figure out what is really going on and rescue the girl from the true danger of her would-be boyfriend?<\/p>\n

The final story is set during WWI, and finds Holmes and Watson helping out the War Office. During the testing of a new class of submarine, things went horribly wrong. Once the vessel is retrieved, they find that one of the men is missing. Can they find out what happened to him, and does this point to a bigger issue, such as possible spies?<\/p>\n

So I’m totally caught up with this series. I’m not sure when we’ll see volume 21, but I look forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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