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Welcome to the author page of Robert Perret

By day I am a librarian living in northern Idaho.  By night I like to write pulpy adventure stories and Sherlock Holmes pastiches.  Please feel free to contact me, I look forward to hearing from you!

My new collection is now available!

Fiction 

"Memoria dell'Amore" Sherlock Holmes in the Realms of Edgar Allen Poe

"The Mystery of the Winning Whisper!" The Irregular Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"The Adventure of the Twofold Purpose," MX Anthology Vol. XV

"The Adventure of the Pneumatic Box," Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realm of Steampunk

"The Bogus Laundry Affair," MX Anthology Vol. XII

"The Adventure of the Gnarled Beeches," Sherlock Holmes: Adventures Beyond the Canon Vol. 3

"A Change of Art," MX Anthology Vol. X

"The Mystery of the Pharaoh's Tablet", MX Anthology Vol. VIII "Eliminate the Impossible"

"Terror of the Green Man", The Stranger's Room Vol. 3

"The Book Lover", Spicy Library Stories

"The Adventure of the Dead Ringer" Sherlock Holmes: Before Baker Street

"The Two Patricks". The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories VI

"Madmen of a Harmless Nature", NonBinary Review Edgar Allan Poe issue

"Terror in the Air", Curious Incidents: More Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 

"Coyoteman", Dead of Winter

"Sherlock Holmes and the Sharpshooter", Proceedings of the Pondicherry Lodge

"For King and Country", The Science of Deduction

"The Canaries of Clee Hills Mine", An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"A Case of Juris Imprudence" Holmes Away from Home

"The Adventure of the Dead Ringer" Before Baker Street

"The Secret of the Gravedigger" Nancy Drew Anthology

"How Hope Learned the Trick", NonBinary Review, A Study in Scarlet issue

"Honeymoon in a Bottle", Ghosts, Gears and Grimoires

"The Dewey Policy", Two-Fisted Librarians

"Death Rides a Slow Horse", Frontier Tales 

Scholarship

"Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist", chapter in Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes, edited by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

"Irene by Any Other Name: A Survey of Pronunciation of Canonical Characters" Watsonian Vol. 5 No. 2

Perret, Robert. “A Study in Scholarship: The Case of the Baker Street Journal.” Proceedings of the Pondicherry Lodge Summer (2018): 52-80.

Perret, Robert. “Is Sherlockian Scholarship Scholarly?” The Watsonian 6.1 (2018)

Miscellania

"Mrs. Hudson: A Biographical Sketch" Retired Beekeepers

"A Year in Sherlocku", Jersey Devil Press Sherlock Holmes Issue 

"Why We Need Sherlock Holmes in an Improbable World", Waiting for a Name  

"Eveything You Ever Wanted to Know About Demetrius Phalerus But Were Afraid to Ask", Two-Fisted Librarians

Awards

"Alas, Poor Yorick" Brilliant Flash Fiction - Science Fiction Award - Longlisted

"Servant Girl Annihilator" - Mocha Memoirs Press Women in Horror 2016 - Finalist