NEWS
LATEST PERFORMANCES OF THE GAME'S
AFOOT
15-20 August 2016: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
David is thrilled to be returning to the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, 25 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh EH12 5AP.
Book through the Edinburgh Festival website. Ticket sales support the Centre, which is a stunning building.
"The game's afoot! David Stuart Davies is the man to bring Holmes and his creator thrillingly to life. An enthralling hour." Gyles Brandreth
13-17 April 2016: Books by the Beach: Scarborough Literature Festival
David is delighted to return to beautiful Scarborough to talk Sherlock at the opening and close of the fabulous festival. Thanks to organisers Heather French and Peter Guttridge for having him back!
Check out the festival website for more information nearer the time.
27 January 2016: Sheffield Library: Meet the Author Event
Back by poular demand at Sheffield Central Library, 6.30pm in the Carpenter Room.
2015
November 2015: Initiation into the Detection Club
David was honoured to be invited to join the Detection Club, founded in 1930. He was invested by the outgoing President Simon Brett in a ceremony at the Dorchester, shrouded in secrecy and black candles and much jiggery pokery. As part of the initiation ceremony, new members are asked to place their hand on Eric the Skull and swear - by something they hold sacred - to abide by the rules of the club. Naturally David swore to do so by 'the footprints of a gigantic hound.' The President’s red robe, first worn by GK Chesterton, was handed on to the new incumbent, Martin Edwards, whose study of the Golden Age of Crime Fiction covers the early years of the Detection Club. David was particularly thrilled to join the long line of club members, as Arthur Conan Doyle was invited to be its first President but declined due to ill health. He died the same year.
October
2015: The Sherlock Holmes
Book
David and co-editor Barry Forshaw worked on this latest in Dorling Kindersleys 'Big Ideas Made Simple' series.
12-14 August 2015: Edinburgh Fringe Festival: The Game's Afoot!
An Encounter with Arthur Conan Doyle & Sherlock Holmes
David spent a wonderful three nights at the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre presenting his new one man show.
Thanks to Ann and everyone at the centre for organising everything so brilliantly, and to the lovely audiences.
12-14 June 2015: Carlisle Crime Fiction Festival
David appeared at the first Carlisle Crime Fiction Festival to talk Sherlock on Saturday 13 June. The festival was a brilliant mix of events.
Massive thanks to the organising team, who made David feel so welcome.
17-18 January 2015: Crime Writers Festival, New Delhi
David was thrilled to have been invited to take part in the first Crime Writers' Festival in New Delhi. He discussed Sherlock Holmes at the festival and gave a presentation for the British Council at the Oxford Bookstore in Delhi.
January 2015:
Speaker: Baker Steet Irregulars
Annual Dinner, New York
David was a guest speaker at the BSI Dinner. Those who remember his dramatised romp through Hound of the Baskervilles in under five minutes would have been prepared for something even worse...
2014
November 2014:
New Novel: Sherlock Holmes and the
Devil's Promise
David's latest Sherlock Holmes novel from Titan Books has a foreword by the brilliant Mark Gatiss. He said, 'Sherlock now lives in other people's stories, too, as he does in The Devil's Promise, penned by the great Davies, whose Sherlock Holmes writings have brought me hours of pleasure.'
Autumn 2014: Article: Sidney Paget, Illustrators Quarterly
Magazine
David wrote written an article for Issue 8 of Illustrators Quartely on artist Sidney Paget, who provided the definitive Sherlock Holmes look for the stories in the Strand Magazine. The magazine is beautifully produced and features some plates taken directly from original Paget artwork, now in private collections around the world.
September 2014:
Speaker: Gillette to Brett
IV, Indianapolis
David was
delighted to have been invited by Steven Doyle and Mark Gagen, the
lovely chaps at Wessex Press, to join Paul Annett,
one of the directors of Granada TV's Sherlock Holmes series
starring Jeremy Brett, as a speaker at the fourth Gillette to Brett
conference in the USA. David gave a presentation on humour in the
Sherlock Holmes stories and films.
For more details see the Wessex Press website.
September 2014:
New Short Story Collection:
The Halloween
Mask
David's
new collection of ghost stories was published by
Mystery
Press. It is described by Mark Gatiss as
'Charming, wistful and pleasingly nasty, as is only
proper.’
August 2014: New ebook Edition: Forests of the Night
David's
first Johnny One Eye novel, Forests of the Night,
was published in ebook form by Endeavour Press.
30 June 2014: CWA Diamond Dagger Award Ceremony, London
David attended the Crime Writers Association's Diamond Dagger Award ceremony at King's Place. The prestigious Diamond Dagger was presented to Simon Brett and the guest speaker was Lucy Worsley.
The fabulous Lucy Worsley
and the sparkling Simon Brett
June/July
2014: Son et Lumiere: Knaresborough
Kaleidoscope
David was
commissioned by Renaissance Knaresborough and Atmos Productions to
script a sound and light show to celebrate the Tour de France
passing through the North Yorkshire town of Knaresborough. From
John O'Gaunt to Mother Shipton via Nostradamus, this is a humorous
'horrible histories' style take on the town's
history.
For more details see the Le Tour Knaresborough website.
June 2014: Short Story, Best British Crime 11, Mammoth
David's
short story 'Secret of the Dead' appeared in eleventh Best
British Crime collection published by
Mammoth Books, edited by the multi-talented writer and critic
Maxim Jakubowski. David explores the mystery behind an encounter
between a retired Sergeant Cuff and a young Sherlock
Holmes.
ARCHIVE HIGHLIGHTS
30 April 2014: His Last Bow
David was reunited with Director Gareth Armstrong as Roger Llewellyn's fifteen years of touring with David's two plays came to a close.
Gareth Armstrong with
Roger Llewellyn and DSD on the last last night
April 2014: Book Festival: Ghosts & Ghouls, Books by the Beach,
Scarborough
In the
company of actor Greta Scacchi, David spent the evening in
Scarborough's atmospheric Victorian prison, reading ghost stories
from his forthcoming collection, The Halloween
Mask alongside classics from M.R. James and Edgar Allan
Poe. The Books by the
Beach festival was brilliantly organised by Peter
Guttridge and Heather French and Greta's reading of 'The Black Cat'
was a tour de force. DSD wasn't bad either.
The wonderful Greta
Scacchi with DSD at Scarborough Prison
November 2013: Panel: Crime Writers Association 60th Anniversary, Foyles, London
In 2013
the CWA celebrated sixty years. As part of the birthday bash
jollities, the CWA conducted a poll, asking people to name their
favourite crime writer, character and series of all time. The
results were debated by David, the amazing Belinda Bauer and Zoe
Sharp and chaired by the admirable Barry Forshaw. You can see
extracts from the debate on You Tube, courtesy
of the delightful Ali Karim.
Belinda Bauer, Barry
Forshaw, Zoe Sharp and DSD at Foyles
August 2013: Location Visit: BBC TV Sherlock Filming
David was
Mark Gatiss's guest for an overnight shoot of BBC TV's
Sherlock Series 3.
He watched filming of scenes from Episode 3, based on the Conan Doyle story 'Charles Augustus Milverton'.
Enormous
thanks to the team for making him so welcome.
The amazingly talented Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt hanging around in the middle of the night with DSD
September 2012: Crime Writing Festival: Bloody Scotland, Stirling
David was thrilled to take part in the first Bloody Scotland crime writing festival in the beautiful setting of Stirling. He hosted the Sherlock Holmes dinner and chaired a panel on Island Crime with the fabulous Ann Cleeves and Peter May.
With crime writing superluminaries
Peter James and Ian Rankin in Stirling