Leslie S. Klinger

Leslie S. Klinger is the two-time Edgar® winning editor of New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He has also edited two anthologies of classic mysteries and, with Laurie R. King, five anthologies of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon. In 2012, Klinger (and King) sued the Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd., regarding the CDEL’s position that the characters of Sherlock Holmes et al. were protected by the copyright laws of the U.S. In a landmark case that was ultimately appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, the courts ruled that only certain “character elements” were protected. Klinger is currently the series editor of the 20-volume Library of Congress Crime Classics, a partnership of the Library of Congress and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. He is currently Chapter President of the SoCal Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in Malibu, California.