John Hall

John Hall is an American author of mystery fiction best known for his pastiches of Sherlock Holmes. John was brought up in Brooklyn in New York City, where he lived with his brother and a coterie of more than twenty cousins. He was always a voracious reader and remembers that the first novel he ever read was “It Was Harry The Dirty Dog.” He was by then in the fifth grade and from that day he was hooked into reading and dreamt of one day becoming a professional author. The first novel Hall wrote was titled “The Mystery of the Leopard’s Eyes.” However, he never got to publish the novel though he still has the manuscript in his desk drawer. Hall would put the dream of publishing on hold for several years as he went on to work in the civil service. In 1973 he published the short story “Clouds of Daffodils” as well as another piece of short fiction that was published in the 1973 published anthology “Triangles.” His debut novel was “Sherlock Holmes and the Telephone Murder Mystery,” a pastiche of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries that he published in 1998. Since then, he has gone to make his pastiches into the Sherlock Holmes Mystery series. He has also written the single standing novels “The Ardagh Emeralds” and “Special Commission.” Hall publishes his works with the UK’s leading independent digital publisher Endeavour Press. He currently lives in New York City.