The latest MX Book Of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XX11 is now on sale (paperback £20.65), containing more untold cases from 1877 to 1887, including Tim Symonds’ short-story The Strange Death Of An Art Dealer set in England’s capital, a tale...
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Readers of any of my five novels or the short stories will realise I’ve very considerable admiration for Dr. John H. Watson. I’m not the first to deplore the traditional Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Hollywood portrayal of the former Army surgeon...
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Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn on location in Africa for the filming of ‘The African Queen’, 1951 A Goodreads reader kindly asked me, ‘who is your favourite fictional couple?’ As the author of five Sherlock Holmes novels I ought to say...
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I have placed several canvass chairs around favourite locations in the Sussex High Weald woodland, such as this one near Burwash. Even in winter it’s usually warm enough to spend a couple of hours typing away at my novels, though the chairs...
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Tim Symonds and Lesley Abdela in the African bush
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Tim Symonds was born in London, England, and grew up in Somerset, Dorset and the Channel Island of Guernsey, off the coast of Normandy. After spending his late teens farming in the Kenya Highlands and driving bulldozers along the Zambezi River...
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Tim Symonds lives in the Sussex Weald – a series of wooded hills and valleys near the ancient Ashdown Forest, a region thoroughly familiar to Arthur Conan Doyle. He writes in a converted oast-house looking out at a bunch of rowdy jackdaws...
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