As you will have seen by the cover, this issue is a Murder Rooms special. We not only have a feature on the programme and interviews with the two stars, which includes exclusive information about the new series, but in our fiction section we have a Murder Rooms story by David Pirie, the creator of the first drama, too...

Contents

1. NEWS AND VIEWS
2. MYSTERY: CAUGHT IN THE WEB 
   Bob Byrne is Web wise
3. OFF THE CUFF 
   John Hall on Holmes’ first meeting with Watson
4. MURDER ROOMS - THE SERIES 
   David Stuart Davies interviews the stars of the BBC’s new Sherlock programme, Charles Edwards and Ian Richardson
5. SHERLOCK STATESIDE 
   Pat Ward has been on an odyssey to Minneapolis
6. HOUND OF THE MOVIES 
   Part four of David Stuart Davies’ look at screen versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles
7. BODY OF EVIDENCE 
   Calum McLeod reviews the work of Paul Johnstone in his regular look at contemporary crime writers
8. TELLY ’TECS 
   Chris Senior falls under the influence of The Persuaders
9. PICK OF THE POIROTS 
   Jared Cade reviews The ABC Murders
10. THE CASE OF THE FEARFUL WIFE 
    A Murder Rooms Mystery by David Pirie
11. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
    An overview of The Golden Pince-Nez
12. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
    Roger Forsdyke travels back into Victorian times to try out the transportSLEUTHING THE SHELVES The reviews section edited by Kathryn White
13. THE PENGUIN HOLMES 
    Paul M Chapman discovers that Conan Doyle’s stories are elevated to classic status in the new Penguin reprints
14. THE UNDYING DETECTIVE 
    Paul M Chapman wonders what is the singular appeal of Sherlock Holmes
15. THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 
    David Stuart Davies views The Cardboard Box, the final production in the series
16. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER 
    Mike Ripley looks at the work of Raymond Chandler and asks "Noir or Hardboiled?"
17. SOCIETIES FORUM 
    Conducted by Roger Johnson with The Nashville Scholars of The Three Pipe Problem illuminated by Gael Stahl
18. MORIARTY’S MUTTERINGS