The Sherlock Holmes Megapack: 25 Modern Tales by Masters: 25 Modern Tales by Masters (66 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

John Gregory Betancourt
is a best-selling science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery author. His most recent publication is
Pit and the Pendulum
a collection of his “Pitbull” Peter Geller mystery stories. He is the writer of four Star Trek novels and the new Chronicles of Amber prequel series, as well as a dozen original novels. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such diverse publications as
Writer’s Digest
,
The Washington Post
, and
Amazing Stories
.

Marc Bilgrey
is the author of two humorous fantasy novels,
And Don’t Forget to Rescue the Princess
and
And Don’t Forget to Rescue the Other Princess
. His serious fantasy, science fiction, horror, and crime short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, including,
Slipstreams, The Ultimate Halloween, Merlin, And Crafty Cat Crimes
. As a writer/cartoonist, his cartoons have been featured in magazines and newspapers such as,
The Harvard Business Review
,
The Wall Street Journal
, and
Funny Times
.

Rhys Bowen
is a New York Times bestselling and Agatha and Anthony award-winning author. She created the atmospheric Molly Murphy mysteries, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and the Royal Spyness mysteries—sparkling British comedies featuring penniless minor royal Lady Georgiana in the 1930s.

Carla Coupe
fell into writing short stories almost without noticing. Two of her short stories—“Rear View Murder” in
Chesapeake Crimes II
and “Dangerous Crossing” in
Chesapeake Crimes 3—
were nominated for Agatha Christie Awards. Her Sherlock Holmes pastiches appear in
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine
and
Sherlock’s Home: The Empty House
.

Jack Grouchot
is a retired investigative newspaper journalist and a former federal law enforcement agent specializing in mail fraud cases. He lives on a small farm in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he writes and cares for five boarded horses. Besides newspaper stories, Grouchot has co-written and edited a nonfiction book,
Pittsburgh Characters,
published by The Iconoclast Press of Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The author, an active member of Mystery Writers of America.

Bruce Kilstein
majored in English at Franklin & Marshall College. He went on to study medicine and began devoting more time to writing as a creative outlet. He uses his medical and surgical experience in many of his stories. He enjoys writing in different genres including historical fiction, horror and mystery.

Michael Kurland
is an American science fiction and detective fiction author. His first published novel was
Ten Years to Doomsday
(written with Chester Anderson) in 1964. Other notable works include
The Unicorn Girl
and two novels set in the world of Randall Garrett’s Lord Darcy,
Ten Little Wizards
and
A Study in Sorcery
(available from Wildside Press). Following the success of his Edgar-nominated
The Infernal Device
and
A Plague of Spies
, Kurland turned his attention to detective fiction. Several of his subsequent novels feature Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis, Professor Moriarty.

Gary Lovisi
is a recognized Holmes aficionado and has written several Holmes pastiches, including “Mycroft’s Greatest Game” and “The Loss of the British Bark Sophy Anderson.” He authored the reference bibliography
Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective in Paperback
.

Richard A. Lupoff
has written sixty volumes of fantasy, mystery, science fiction, horror, and mainstream fiction. His recent books include the collection
Killer’s Dozen
,
Quintet: the Cases of Chase and Delacroix
,
Before 12:01 and After
,
The Universal Holmes
, and
Terrors, Visions, and Dreams
. His nine-volume mystery series involving Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum was reissued by Wildside Press in 2013.

Michael Mallory
is a writer on animation and post-war pop culture, Mallory also writes murder mysteries, often featuring “Amelia Watson,” the second (and previously unheralded) wife of Dr Watson of Sherlock Holmes fame. Four volumes of Amelia Watson stories have appeared to date:
The Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson
,
Murder in the Bath
,
The Exploits of the Second Mrs. Watson
, and
The Stratford Conspiracy
.

Adam Beau McFarlane
is currently a Twin Cities resident and an M.P.A. graduate student at the University of Minnesota. His most recent publication was “The Bottom of My Heart” in
Thuglit
issue nine. He is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Private Eye Writers of America.

Thos. Kent Miller
is the author of
Allan Quatermain at the Crucible of Life
and
Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World
. He’s been published in
Faunus: The Journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen;
Ghosts & Scholars
:
M.R. James Newsletter
; and
The Weird Tales Collector
. He names his cats after Victorian authors.

Mike Resnick
is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction. He has five Hugos, plus other major awards from the USA, France, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Catalonia, and Japan. Mike is the author of 84 novels, over 260 stories, and 3 screenplays, and has edited 41 anthologies.

Linda Robertson
practices criminal law with a San Francisco-based nonprofit law firm. In addition to her Sherlock Holmes short stories and nonfiction writing, she co-authored
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Unsolved Mysteries
.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
is an American writer and editor. Under various pseudonyms, she has written science fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, and mainstream novels. Rusch won the 2001 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “Millennium Babies;” the 2003 Endeavour Award for
The Disappeared
2002; and the 2008 Sidewise Award for Alternate History for “Recovering Apollo 8.” She edited
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
for six years, from mid-1991 through mid-1997, winning one Hugo Award as Best Professional Editor.

Robert James Sawyer
is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 21 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
,
Amazing Stories
,
On Spec
,
Nature
, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006), and received a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award from the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association in 2013.

Stan Trybulski
is the author or the popular Doherty series and was a felony trial prosecutor for the district attorney’s office in Brooklyn and later a civil trial attorney for the New York City Department of Education. Prior to becoming an attorney, Trybulski was a newspaper reporter, college administrator, bartender, and a long-time frequenter of McSorley’s Old Ale House in New York City. During his legal career, he made McSorley’s his office away from the office, and has continued that tradition through his writing career, using the front table as his desk, its cats as his editorial assistants, and the tavern as a locale in his novels and short stories.

Mark Wardecker
is a librarian and academic technologist who is interested in how digital technology impacts and is influenced by research and instruction practices. Just as important are his avocational pursuits: Sherlock Holmes, Victorian and Edwardian periodical literature, pulp fiction, classical literature, Doctor Who, and many others.