Laurie King has won just about every crime-writing award there is, and half her novels feature Mary Russell, the wife of Sherlock Holmes. Now King and Leslie S. Klinger have put together A Study in Sherlock, an anthology of stories “inspired by the Holmes canon.” The key word is “inspired,” as most of these stories aren’t pastiches but tales that are often only tangentially related to the canon. There’s a lot to enjoy, like Colin Cotterill’s “The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story,” presented in graphic novel form. Or Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey,” which will tell you why Holmes decided on beekeeping. There’s a lot more, all of it by Big Names, all of it thoroughly entertaining. An introduction and an afterword by King and Klinger add to the volume’s value. For Holmes fans this is a must-have. For everybody else, it’s highly recommended.