David Stuart Davies (born 1946) is a British writer. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction. He is the editor of Red Herrings, the monthly in-house publication of the Crime Writers’ Association.
His award-winning one-man play Sherlock Holmes – The Last Act is still touring after its premiere at Salisbury Playhouse in 1999. It has played in France, Canada, America, Hong Kong, Malta and all over the British Isles. In 2009, Big Finish Productions released audio adaptations of his plays The Last Act and The Death and Life.
David Stuart Davies’ books include several Sherlock Holmes pastiches such as Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991), The Tangled Skein (1995), Shadow of the Rat (1999), and The Veiled Detective (2004), as well as the Johnny One Eye series with stories such as Forests of The Night (2000), Without Conscience (2008) and The Darkness of Death (2010). David is also known for his non-fictional publications, which include Bending The Willow – Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (1996, updated 2010), Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of The Master Detective On Screen (2001, updated 2007), and Dancing In The Moonlight: Jeremy Brett – A Celebration (2006).
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