George Tackes: Instinct and Feel Take Over

Tell us a bit about your most recent work. 

My most recent published work: CNI Classified Vol. 2 short story “Hatchet Job” Oct 2025. Blue Planet Press. Robert Mendenhall created a fun group of military adventurers to write about. Masked Rider #4 – “A World Aflame” short story for Airship 27 – Western featuring Wyatt Earp fighting a fire rampaging through a small town. Secret Agent X Vol. 7 another short story for Airship 27 American Operation Hummingbird. Secret Agent X takes on a Nazi killer – always a great villain, 

My most recent unpublished work: In Search of the Cinnamon Bear, a novel – sequel to 1938 radio serial The Cinnamon Bear.

What are the themes and subjects you tend to revisit in your work? 

Currently adventure/action pulp stories with historical basis. Overall, I have to say the subjects are a wide range. I’ve written articles, plays, novels, short stories. My themes center around good versus evil, justice prevails.

What happened in your life that prompted you to become a writer? 

I remember as a child seeing a typewriter for the first time. I was fascinated by it. My mother gave me something to type but I didn’t want to copy something. Instead I wrote a story.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION PRESENTS SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOL. 20

After ten years of publishing some of the most exciting and thrilling new adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Airship 27 Production is proud to offer the 29th Volume in its Consult Detective series. Here, in this super special collection, are stories by I.A. Watson, Teel James Gleen, Ray Lovato, and Michael Black, offering challenging new mysteries for the dynamic crime-solving duo of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Included is I.A. Watson’s “The Adventure of the Strand Magazine Murder,” which brings Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s best-loved characters around to the venue that introduced them to the world.

There will be two different editions designed by award-winning artist Rob Davis. One in our normal 9 x 6 pulp book format and a special to look exactly like Holmes' publisher The Strand Magazine in size and spirit. This deluxe edition contains more illustrations and facsimile advertisements typical of the era in which the magazine first appeared.  Regardless of which version fans buy, this will be a volume they will cherish forever.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon in two different paperback formats and soon on Kindle.

Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Vol. 3 by Ian Watson

Airship 27 Production is happy to announce the release of our third volume of “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries” by Ian Watson. This collection reprints already published tales from our best-selling anthology series, “Sherlock Homes Consulting Detective” and includes a never-before-seen story slated for the upcoming 20th volume and collected here for the first time for your mystery reading pleasure. The original illustrations for each story are presented as well. Cover by Art Director Rob Davis.  A KINDLE ONLY TITLE.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOL. 19

Airship 27 Productions is proud to announce the release of the 19th Volume in their bestselling series new of Sherlock Holmes adventures, Consulting Detective.

In this volume, the Great Detective and his amiable assistant confront four truly unique and bizarre mysteries. Each of these will challenge Sherlock Holmes’ observation skills. From a trip to the Vatican to retrieve a “lost gospel” to unravel the death of a famous author, there is no rest for the two companions. A young Olympiad cyclist is murdered with an African Zulu spear while in the final entry, a cunning murderer uses well-known poems as clues to the identity of the next victim. The game is afoot once again with

Writers Ray Lovato, Jonathan Casey, I.A. Watson, and Ray Lovato provide the excitement and the thrills.

Art Director Rob Davis provides 14 wonderful interior illustrations while artist Howard Simpson illustrates a dramatic cover. Once again offering fans a beautiful treasure of great Holmes tales.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle!

AIRSHIP 27 -- FIVE NEW HOLMES MYSTERIES

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the release of “Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 9.”

Once again, hidden on the fog shrouded streets of London are heinous criminals set upon their nefarious schemes. All that stands in their way are two men, stalwart and unafraid to take on villainy in all its insidious disguises; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

“Every single time we put out a new volume, our Sherlock Holmes fans are delighted,” says Airship 27 Production’s Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “Honestly, they devour each one and then within weeks of a new release, I’m getting mail asking when the next one is coming out. The popularity of these characters appears to be as strong as ever to readers around the world.”

In this, the ninth entry in this bestselling series, the crime solving companions tackle five brand new mysteries that are totally unique from any of their previous adventures. Among these; an entire crew of a shoreline light house vanishes during a raging storm, one of Watson’s old army colleagues is accused of murder and a former Baker Street Irregular seeks out their aid on behalf of his crippled father. These three cases and two others are brilliantly delivered by writers I.A. Watson, Fred Adams Jr., Erik Franklin and Aaron Smith. Proving once again there is only one Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective.

Airship 27 Productions’ Art Director, Rob Davis provides the black and white interior illustrations as he has done with all previous volumes and Adam Shaw delivers a truly striking cover.  Sure to be another winner from the leading publisher in New Pulp fiction.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle.