As usual, this issue is packed with a rich, eclectic mix... Waiting for you on page 30 we have the results of the Sherlock Awards! For the Sherlock Holmes fans there is A L Blake’s fascinating article sherlock holmes and the vampire connection. This examines the surprising number of stories and films in which the Baker Street detective has faced a blood-sucking fiend as an adversary.

Mr Holmes appears in another related article tracking the undead by regular contributor Paul M Chapman who investigates the vampire hunter as detective.Gavin Collinson’s sherlock on screen feature concentrates on the Holmes movie comedy without a clue starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. 

Our story in this issue is another new Holmes tale written by M J Elliott who has come up with a really intriguing mystery for the detective to solve. the adventure of the mocking huntsman is a fine tale in the Doyle tradition.

Contents

1. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VAMPIRE CONNECTION 
   A L Blake draws blood on Baker Street
2. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
   The Mazarin Stone, which was first published in the Strand in Octover 1921
3. INTERVIEW WITH SUE GRAFTON 
   Mark Campbell talks to the author about her alphabet crime detective Kinsey Millhone
4. TELLY ’TECS 
   David Stuart Davies views two new detective programmes on the small screen: Murphy’s Law and New Tricks
5. SHERLOCK STATESIDE 
   Pat Ward on the latest from the USA
6. TRACKING THE UNDEAD 
   The vampire hunter as detective. An analysis by Paul M Chapman
7. SHERLOCK ON SCREEN 
   Gavin Collinson looks at Without a Clue with Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine
8. THE OTHER DETECTIVES 
   Robert Sanderson investigates Emmuska Orczy’s female sleuth Lady Molly Robertson-Kirk
9. THE SHERLOCK AWARDS 2002 
   Announcing the winners of 2002’s coveted Sherlock detective fiction awards
10. SLEUTHING THE SHELVES 
    The latest round-up of Holmes and detective literature, edited by Kathryn White
11. DVD CALENDAR 
    M J Elliott brings us the low down on recent and forthcoming UK region 2 releases
12. BODY OF EVIDENCE 
    Calum McCleod casts a private eye over Cath Staincliffe
13. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
    Roger Forsdyke on the woman’s lot
14. GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER 
    Mike Ripley discusses the relations hip between hero and author in his regular column
15. NEWS DESK
16. MYSTERY: CAUGHT IN THE NET 
    Surfing the detective sites with Bob Byrne
17. THE AGONY COLUMN 
    Conducted by Roger Johnson
18. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MOCKING HUNTSMAN 
    A Sherlock Holmes mystery by M J Elliott, with illustrations by Chris Senior