I don't know how I missed hearing about this until now, but on November 1, for the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel.
http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/books/the-house-of-silk/
I'm heading to Barnes and Noble right now.
Sweet! I love Sherlock Holmes. He is a fantastic character.
I hope this book is better than The Sherlockian
I loved Hound of the Baskervilles when I was a kid.
Shame about those movies.
But a new book, that sounds interesting.
Anything is better than those Robert Downey Jr. movies.
The TV show is splendid. You should watch it.
Splendid, there's a word you don't see everyday. We should bring splendid back into common usage. I've got the show on my netflix instant queue (did I spell that right?). And, I liked the first Downey movie, haven't seen the second...what's so terrible about them, I think they're better than 90% of the rest of the crap Hollywood slings.
And lest this digress from the OP, I loved Sherlock as a kid. I haven't read any in more years than I care to count, but those are big shoes to fill on the part of Horowitz. I'll probably read it.