Since their original appearanc more than two decades ago, Michael Kurland's two novels feature Professor James Moriarty--The Infernal Device and Death by Gaslight--have been among the most acclaimed of the works based on the characters first introduced by Authur Conan Doyle. In Doyle's original s...
originally posted at: http://thebookplank.blogspot.com/2014...You all know by now that Titan is the lead publisher in Sherlock Holmes fiction and that they also have another series that features an Victorian detective couple Newbury and Hobbes. However all these perspectives show the faces of the...
Labeled the "Napoleon of Crime" by an obsessed Sherlock Holmes, Professor James Moriarty is a prominent scientist, a keen analytical mind, and a dabbler in less than savory doings. Two friends and former associates of Moriarty - Benjamin Barnett and his wife, the former Cecily Perrine - are trave...
In the late Victorian days, a large amount of gold is arriving unannounced on the cargo ship The Empress of India. Yet the impossible happens--the shipment of gold disappears en route. Sherlock Holmes, brought in by Her Majesty's Government, knows that only one man is both diabolical and clever e...
As Good King John's wizards are killed, it seems that someone with magical talent of his own bears ill will towards the sorcerous society. Lord Darcy, Investigator-in-Chief for the King, and his sorcerer assistant, Sean, must piece together the puzzle before more lives are lost.
“Howdy, Mr. Brass,” he said. “Gates is my name, Casper W. Gates. I’ve come right up here to see you without hardly pausing to unpack my bags or nothing because my little Filly’s missing, and these here New York policemen that I spoke to don’t seem to give a good goddamn.” Brass shook the hand gin...
Countless visitors had presented their problems at 221B Baker Street. But that summer, without any client asking him to, Holmes solved a man’s killing after we witnessed it with our very own eyes. The sun lasted late on Whitmonday and Mary was visiting family, so I asked H...
—James Thomson Cecily Perrine proved to be more than Barnett could have hoped for. He had advertised for a secretary and he had found a wonder. She handled the business side of American News Service so well that it almost immediately ceased being merely a front for Barnett's other...
It is my intention that none shall read these words for the next—let us say—100 years. But that is not as much out of the well of modesty for which I am widely known and justly admired; but from a desire that I shall trouble no one with my peccadillos, and no one shall trouble me with their appro...
The Chevalier Raoul d’Espergnan reined in his mount and paused to stare at the distant spires of Castle Cristobel, which rose, gleaming and sparkling, above the morning mist. He could not help thinking of legendary Camelot, which must have looked much like this to questing knights back in the myt...
He’d always meant to change it to something less strident, like the “Ode to Joy” or the Internationale, but deed had not yet followed thought and it still played “Yankee Doodle.” This evening, when the call to arms sounded, Adams was settled comfortably in his study reading. He laid the book asid...
What had brought them together was a shared distaste for the social policies of Adolf Hitler. They used the mimeograph machine in the apartment to put out pamphlets with titles like “The Truth About National Socialism,” “What Hitler Intends,” and “Europe—Wake Up!” in six different languages, whic...
We accept the convention of using the names “Sherlock Holmes” and “John H. Watson” for the Great Detective and the Good Doctor, knowing full well that the real identities of these individuals were concealed behind aliases with the connivance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. We can deduce that Holmes’s ...
1868: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, Coins, Stamps, and Personal Items of the Great, Important, Famous, Notorious, or Noteworthy, Bought & Sold; Appraisals Free; No Estate Too Small. Mr. Gilden himself helped them. A small man, thin and nervous-looking, with a da...