Anomalous: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Featuring Jack Johnson and Alphonse Capone
Samuel Williams, Jr. is a 54-year-old African American journalist and grant writer based in San Bernardino, Ca. "When I was a high school student at Christchurch School, a private Episcopalian boarding school located on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Middlesex  County, Virginia, I fell in love Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes adventures," Williams said. "In my readings, however, I noticed there were only two black characters ever mentioned in any of the adventures. I was also concerned the only black male character to appear, Steve Dixie, was depicted as a rogue and grifter. I decided I would write a Holmes adventure that would give Dixie's character some positive, redeeming value and I believe I was successful in doing so in the book, Anomalous: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes featuring Jack Johnson and Alphonse Capone." Williams is the first African American writer to ever author a Sherlock Holmes adventure.