The next Moriarty novel, tentatively titled Who Thinks Evil, is being finished
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Kurland will be signing at the Paperback Book Show, on March 11, 2007, along with a pride of his fellow authors, including Ann Bannon, Peter Beagle, Arthur Byron Cover, David Gerrold, Mel Gilden, George Clayton Johnson, Larry Niven, and Fred Pohl.
PAPERBACK BOOK SHOW
Conference Center
Guest House Inn
10621 Sepulveda Blvd.
Mission Hills CA, 91345
818-891-1771
To save you the trouble of looking it up, here's the Publisher's Weekly review of The Empress of India:
back to the front pageSherlock Holmes vanishes down a London sewer early in Edgar-finalist Kurland's fun fourth novel featuring the sleuth's archenemy, James Moriarty (after 2001's The Great Game). In 1890, a quarter-ton of gold is being shipped from Calcutta to the Bank of England via the eponymous luxury liner, whose passengers include the evil professor, fellow villain Col. Sebastian Moran, and members of the semicomical "Limehouse Coneys," an assortment of urchins and London lowlifes under the direction of inscrutable Dr. Pin Dok Low. Escorting this treasure are 30 crack Highland Lancers commanded by Brig. Gen. Sir Edward St. Yves, who's traveling with his comely and seductive daughter, Margaret. Chaos bordering on slapstick ensues as Moriarty and Moran try to abscond with the bejeweled statuette "Queen of Lamapoor," which is also hidden aboard the luckless liner. Lots of Indian lore adds colorful background to this "seemingly impossible crime," before its satisfying, if not startling, resolution. (Feb.)
The trade paperback of the latest Sherlock Holmes anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years. from St. Martin's Press, (hardcover, $24.95, isbn 0-312-31513-9) has just been released. The stories all take place during the three years when Holmes was missing, and presumed dead, after his little adventure at Reichenback Falls. One of the stories in it, "The Adventure of the Missing Detective," by Gary Lovisi, which throws Holmes into a mysterious alternate universe, was a Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" Award nominee. The book has a stellar cast of authors in addition to Lovisi, including Peter Beagle, who takes Holmes to Eastern Europe to play the violin; Dennis Lynds (Michael Collins), who finds Holmes in Hew York City with the grandfather of his detective Dan Fortune; Linda Robertson, who has Holmes in the frozen Arctic; Bill Pronzini, whose San Francisco detective Quincannon doesn't like Holmes very much; and, of course, Morgul the Friendly Drelb, with Moriarty's version of what happened at Reichenbach.
The trade paperback edition of the previous editorial chef de ouvre, the best selling (as it says on the back cover) My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective, an anthology of new Sherlock Holmes tales, is also out from St. Martin's, ($14.95, ISBN 0-312-32595-9). Kurland has written an erudite introduction crammed with fascinating facts about the history of detective fiction. As usual, give him a chance to show off and stand back. The stories in the anthology were all written from the viewpoints of characters appearing or mentioned in Conan Doyle's original stories except Holmes or Watson.
There are 12 stories and one sort of melange (or is it a blancmange?) in the book. A Moriarty story by Kurland, of course. Dick Lupoff's tale, told by the Chevalier C. August Dupin, who you will remember was Edgar Allan Poe's detective in "Murders in the Rue Morgue," was picked for last year's "Best of the Year" anthology. "The Purloined Letter." Gary Lovisi tells a story from the viewpoint of Holmes's brother Mycroft. Barbara Hambly has written a lovely story told by Dr. Watson's first wife, Mary. Michael Mallory's tale peers through the eyes of Amelia Watson, the good doctor's second wife. Take a look here to read an excerpt from the introduction, and to see the table of contents and some reviews.
The trade paperback of The Great Game, the third Moriarty novel, is also out now (St. Martin's, $13.95). It's a very pretty package. Check here for the reviews.
Images Conceits & Lollygags, a trade paperback collection of short stories by Michael Kurland, is out from Gryphon Press. It has an introduction by Dick Lupoff and a cover by Frank Kelly Freas. There's a numbered limited edition of 100, signed by everyone, which goes for $40 (ISBN 1-58250-049-5) and a plain edition for the hoi polloi, ($20, ISBN 1-58250-048-7) signed at least by Kurland if you get it from him or catch him at a bookstore. If you can't find it, either email Kurland or look on the Gryphon website: gryphonbooks.com .
A new edition of The Unicorn Girl, a science-fantasy novel from the Greenwich Village days, has been published by Cosmos, a division of Wildside Press, with a very nice cover and a new introduction from Richard Lupoff, for $14.99. If you can't find it at your local SF bookstore, you can order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever. It is the first book of a projected "60s" or "psychodelic" or some such collection by Cosmos, and will be joined by Chester Anderson's The Butterfly Kid (the prequel to The Unicorn Girl -- honest!) and Dick Lupoff's Sacred Locomotive Flies, and probably a few more titles.
There is now a Chinese edition of How to Solve a Murder. Or, at least that's what they claim it says. For those of you who want to brush up on your Japanese, there will be a Japanese edition of The Great Game sometime in the near future. And that's all we know about that.back to the front page