Man Of The Woods: A Dark Crime Tale (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544976464)

Kelvin I. Jones has been a prolific writer for a quarter of a century. Born in Kent in 1948, he is equally at home writing poetry, plays and, above all, novels. He has published six books about Sherlock Holmes and the only compreensive study on Conan Doyle's interest in spiritualism, as well as numerous articles about the Victorian detective (see R De Waal's Universal Sherlock Holmes, online edition, 2000). Ed Hoch, the renowned American crime writer, has said of his Sherlockian work: "Kelvin I Jones reveals a sensibility and knowledge of 19th Century literature that extends far beyond the world of Sherlock Holmes." (Introduction to Sherlock and Porlock, Magico, 1984). He has written the definitive biography of Holmes, 'Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective ' (2016). He has published two thrilling Holmes pastiches, both dealing with Holmes' intervention with Victorian celebrities of the period, with a third to follow, and he is also the author of many supernatural stories, among them Carter's Occult Casebook, about a psychic Edwardian detective.