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Overview: Michael Kurland has written many non-fiction books on a vast array of topics, including How to Solve a Murder, as well as many novels. Twice a finalist for the Edgar Award (once for The Infernal Device) given by the Mystery Writers of America, Kurland is perhaps best known for his novels about Professor Moriarty. He lives in Petaluma, California.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years
The 10 all-original tales in Edgar-finalist Kurland’s lively third Sherlock Holmes anthology (after 2004’s Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years) chronicle the exploits of the fledgling sleuth in America, before he settled in Baker Street. Richard A. Lupoff gets the volume off to a strong start with Inga Sigerson Weds, in which the adolescent Sherlock’s cash-strapped parents send him and his jealous sister across the Atlantic to a distant cousin’s New York City wedding. In Darryl Brock’s witty My Silk Umbrella, Holmes encounters Mark Twain at a Hartford base ball match. The detective meets another Connecticut luminary, P.T. Barnum, in Michael Mallory’s droll The Sacred White Elephant of Mandalay. Dr. Watson appears once, in a postscript to Gary Lovisi’s improbable The American Adventure, in which the normally emotionless Holmes falls hard for a beautiful stage actress. Other contributors include Steve Hockensmith, Peter Tremayne, and Rhys Bowen.
CONTENTS:
INGA SIGERSON WEDS by Richard A. Lupoff
MY SILK UMBRELLA: A MARK TWAIN STORY by Darryl Brock
THE OLD SENATOR by Steve Hockensmith
THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE by Gary Lovisi
THE SACRED WHITE ELEPHANT OF MANDALAY by Michael Mallory
THE CURSE OF EDWIN BOOTH by Carole Buggé
THE CASE OF THE RELUCTANT ASSASSIN by Peter Tremayne
CUTTING FOR SIGN by Rhys Bowen
THE ENGLISH SEÑOR by Marta Randall
THE STAGECOACH DETECTIVE: A TALE OF THE GOLDEN WEST by Linda Robertson
Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
Kurland (My Sherlock Holmes) scores again in this lively all-original anthology chronicling the "Great Hiatus," that period when Sherlock Holmes was believed dead following a tumble into Reichenbach Falls with archfiend Professor Moriarty. In Peter Beagle’s engaging "Mr. Sigerson," the best of several tales featuring Holmes under his Sigerson alias, Holmes investigates a case of marital infidelity and fraud. An amnesiac Holmes finds himself in the midst of European high society in Rhys Bowen’s "The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant," an appealing tale marred only by a surfeit of characters including Sigmund Freud and the Prince of Wales. Holmes is a bystander throughout most of Bill Pronzini’s delightful novella "The Bughouse Caper," in which rival Victorian detective John Quincannon searches San Francisco for a serial burglar, only to be upstaged in the end by "the bloody Englishman." In Kurland’s own contribution, "Reichenbach," the "Napoleon of Crime," Moriarty, narrates an imagination-stretching version of the duo’s mock deaths as part of a counterplot to foil a "dastardly scheme" to discredit Britain’s navy. Stories by Baker Street veterans Gary Lovisi, Carolyn Wheat and Richard Lupoff, plus others newer to the world of Holmes pastiche, round out this enjoyable volume.
Contents:
The Beast of Guagming Peak by Michael Mallory
Water from the Moon by Carolyn Wheat
Mr. Sigerson by Peter Beagle
The Mystery of Dr. Thorvald Sigerson by Linda Robertson
The Case of the Lugubrious Manservant by Rhys Bowen
The Bughouse Caper by Bill Pronzini
Reichenbach by Michael Kurland
The Strange Case of the Voodoo Priestess by Carole Bugge
The Adventure of the Missing Detective by Gary Lovisi
Cross of Gold by Michael Collins
God of the Naked Unicorn by Ova Hamlet (a creation of Richard Lupoff)
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