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Sherlock Holmes quizzes by Tim

Posted 4 days ago by stu 20 0 0

If you’ve read a good number of the original ‘canon’ – the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Holmes and Watson – try your hand at these quizzes I compiled for Country Life and Education quizzes...

Latest MX Book Of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part XX11

Posted December 7, 2020 by stu 541 0 0

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...

Tim Through The Years: Tim in his late 20s

Posted October 30, 2018 by stu 1490 0 0

Tim Through The Years: Tim in his late 20s pretending he owned a Rolls

Posted October 30, 2018 by stu 1400 0 0

Tim Through The Years: Tim visiting the New York Times on a 3-month visit to ‘The Big Apple’

Posted October 30, 2018 by stu 1373 0 0

What of Watson?

Posted February 22, 2017 by stu 3012 0 0

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...

Tim Symonds’ favourite fictional couple

Posted February 11, 2017 by stu 3443 0 0

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...

I have placed several canvass chairs around favourite locations in the Sussex High Weald woodland

Posted September 7, 2016 by stu 1967 0 0

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...

Tim Symonds and Lesley Abdela in the African bush

Posted September 3, 2016 by stu 2264 0 0

Tim Symonds and Lesley Abdela in the African bush

About Tim Symonds

Posted August 12, 2016 by stu 4278 0 1

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...

About the Author

Posted July 9, 2016 by stu 2305 0 1

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...