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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: The game's afoot!
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 15:45:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 15:45:45 1985
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Wow!  Someone with MORE Non-Doyle Holmes books that I!  I particularly
didn't know about The Pandora Plague and the other Gardner Moriarty book
(Hee hee hee).  The only other ones I can name are:

1)     The Earthquake Machine, by ? (write me if you want the author, I'll
have to search).  Not very good.

2)     A collection by Adrian Conan Doyle and someone else, which I haven't
seen in years.  Not bad -- they take some of the titles that Watson
mentions, but never recounts, in the Canon, and expand on it.

3) 	The Infernal Device, by Michael Kurland.  This is the first of the
Moriarty trilogy by Kurland, and it won him the an Edgar award for best new
talent the year it was published.  Like "Death by Gaslight", the following
volume, it recounts an adventure from an associate of Moriarty's, and is
*extremely* well done; both also features Holmes prominently.  It also puts
forward that while Moriarty was a rogue, he was not "evil" -- he plots
robberies to fund his scientific experiments, and while being a criminal, he
does not murder people -- and that Holmes has a fixation on implicating him
in everything.  A third chapter was promised, but I've never seen it (and
have been checking constantly with local bookstores); if anyone knows what
became of it, I'd love to find out.

Of those mentioned in the original column, I'd recommend "The Giant Rat of
Sumatra" as the best Doyle imitation (and a darn good story to boot), and
the Meyer and Kurland books also.

I might mention that y'all have Kurland to thank (or blame) for my unique
login name.

                                "He is the Napoleon of Crime, Watson..."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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