Clan Destine Press Blog — The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

In The Only One in the World, Jayantika Ganguly's story "The Adventure of the Fated Homecoming" takes place in India. We asked Jay about the joys of writing a tale of Sherlock in her native home, and what she loved the most about it. What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while writing your story? I was looking for an appropriate equivalent for Mycroft Holmes (basically I wanted a grand, super-smart, powerful big brother for my Indian Sherlock), so I was digging into the origin and meaning of "Mycroft," and stumbled upon the tidbit that there's an AI voice...

In the middle of the year that went nowhere, I asked writers from around the world to interpret what Holmes and/or Watson might be like if one or both came from a cultural background different from Conan Doyle’s London-centred Victorian/Edwardian England, in stories where they also did not have to be white upper-class men. The characters could change in any and many ways to suit the story, so that readers could explore the Great Detective and his biographer from new and different angles. The result is The Only One in the World. Who's In This Sherlockian Anthology? Fourteen splendid writers...