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WHAT OF WATSON? HOW IMPORTANT IS DR WATSON?

Posted August 4, 2023 by Nick Shaw 107 0 0

Readers of any of my seven Sherlock Holmes novels or the collections of my short stories will realise I have very considerable admiration for Dr. John H. Watson. I’m not the first to deplore the traditional Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Hollywood...

Sherlock Holmes quizzes by Tim

Posted August 5, 2022 by stu 594 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 854 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 1817 0 0

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

Posted October 30, 2018 by stu 1732 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 1720 0 0

What of Watson?

Posted February 22, 2017 by stu 3317 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 3751 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 2226 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 2636 0 0

Tim Symonds and Lesley Abdela in the African bush

About Tim Symonds

Posted August 12, 2016 by stu 5756 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 2691 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...