It’s very rare for a novel to take the world by storm, but Dan Brown’s "The Da Vinci Code" is one such rare animal. It is still top of the best selling paperbacks in the UK. If you are puzzled by the book’s success, you’ll find M J Elliott’s article enlightening.

When I took over the editorship nine years ago, many people said to me that there would never be enough fresh material about Sherlock Homes to provides content for a magazine that appears six times a year. Time has proved them wrong, and never more than now. 

We recently had a new Holmes TV film, and we have the long awaited DVD release, "A Study in Terror". And, for the first time ever, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is being staged as a musical...

Contents

1. CONTRASTS IN GREY AND GREEN 
   Paul M Chapman on Holmes in Town and Country
2. UNDER THE GASLIGHT 
   Roger Forsdyke reveals The Great Turf Fraud
3. THE DA VINCI MAN 
   M J Elliott attempts to crack Dan Brown’s code
4. CANONICAL INTRODUCTIONS 
   An insight into "The Veiled Lodger"
5. SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE CASE OF THE SILK STOCKINGS 
   David Stuart Davies reviews the critical responses
6. ACTION GIRL 
   Calum McLeod on the crime fiction of Zoe Sharp
7. THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRIME FICTION 
   Mark Valentine throws the spotlight on Philip MacDonald
8. MORIARTY OF THE MOVIES 
   Continuing the study of Holmes’ arch rival as portrayed on the big screen
9. ELLERY QUEEN ON TV 
   Robert Sanderson discusses the 70s television show
10. A STUDY IN TERROR 
    News of the DVD release, plus competition to win your own copy
11. THE BASKERVILLE BEAST 
    Leonard Rose talks to Teddy Hayes about the new Sherlock Holmes musical, with an additional review of the production by Judith Cunningham
12. A LIFE OF CRIME 
    Martin Edwards reviews the career of H R F Keating, a doyen of British crime fiction writing
13. SHERLOCK HOLMES - THE DEFECTIVE DETECTIVE
    Alan Paerry explodes the Holmes myth
14. LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
    A Johnny One Eye story by David Stuart Davies
15. SLEUTHING THE SHELVES
    The Review Section, edited by Kathryn White
16. SHERLOCK STATESIDE
    Pat Ward discusses the American crime fiction scene
17. JOHNSON’S JOTTINGS
    Roger Johnson follows the trail of Holmes and Watson
18. END PIECES
    Incorporating Bob Byrne’s Mystery on the Web, and M J Elliot’s DVD Calendar
19. MORIARTY’S MUTTERINGS
    Our outspoken columnist continues his contentious writings