SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE IRON CROWN
The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Iron Crown, by Michael A. Black. When Ron Fortier, the main editor and founder of Airship 27, first suggested that my friend, Ray Lovato and I take a stab at writing a Sherlock Holmes novel, the idea seemed pretty daunting. “There’s a lady in England,” Ron told us. “She’s an artist and contacted me because she heard about the Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective series that I’m publishing. She’s waited her whole life to do some illustrations for a Holmes novel. Ray and I had both written short stories featuring the peerless team of Holmes and Watson, but maintaining the mystery and suspense for a novel-length project was another matter entirely. I was in the middle of completing the first novel of the next three book contract for my Trackdown series for Wolfpack. Ray, however, had just completed a couple of really good Sherlock Holmes short stories, and was interested in the challenge of doing a novel. I told him to give i...