Among the world’s great fictional villains Professor James Moriarty stands alone. Doctor Fu Manchu, Hannibal Lecter, Count Dracula, Iago, Voldemort, Darth Vader, Bill Sikes, Inspector Javert, and the Wicked Witch of the West all have their fans, all have their place in popular fiction. But for every one who can tell you whose life Iago made miserable, fifty honor that Professor James Moriarty was the particular nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. But just how evil was he? These stories by Michael...
Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic – except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for everyone to see! <P> Such a crime calls for out-of-this-world detective work. There must be alternate Americas – and one of them must be an American union that Burr helped shape. With a few impossible coins, the path is indicated…and the...
Michael Kurland's 'The Unicorn Girl' is a novel about a magical world, half-mystical, half-historic, half-imaginary. Three halves, you ask, isn't that impossible? Of course it it. That's why it's magical. It is a lost world, too, a lost world called The Sixties. You hold in your hands the one, the only, the original Unicorn Girl. It's time to slip an old Harper's Bizarre or Strawberry Alarm Clock LP onto the turntable, pour yourself a glass of cheap wine,...
This volume assembles a mammoth collection of modern Sherlock Holmes stories – no less than 25 tales by modern masters, such as Carla Coupe, Gary Lovisi, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, and many more! (It's also an authorized edition, produced under license from Conan Doyle Estate, Ltd.) <P> THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EMERALDS, by Carla Coupe<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND ROUND, by Mark Wardecker<BR> THE ADVENTURE OF THE MIDNIGHT SEANCE, by...
Set in an alternative reality where «All the President's men» do not get caught at Watergate, this «shockingly believable» novel presents the frightening scenario of what could happen if a powerful but paranoid American chief executive goes out of control. <P> "—The dirty tricks have just begun; rape, murder, plot and counterplot…are nothing to this imperial President…" –Publishers Weekly. <p> "[T]he authors have brought a chilling sense of reality to their...
When the young apprentice Delbit Quint is «bought» by Dr. Faineworth, he arrives in an alternate history version of New York City to help the good doctor with his investigation of «Exxa.» This beautiful young woman had just appeared from nowhere, without clothing, on the streets of Gotham two weeks earlier, her memories of herself and her background completely lost. But when they go to her cell, they find it empty–save for her loose garments. Thus begins a glorious adventure in parallel...
In an alternate history in which the Plantagenets still rule in England, France, and the New World, and where the science of magic has displaced the magic of science, Lord Darcy is the official representative of King John IV to investigate murders and other bizarre crimes, and Master Sean O Lochlainn his forensic magician sidekick. An Azteque prince is sacrificed at the top of an abandoned Azteque pyramid in New England, his heart torn from his chest in a fashion discarded hundreds of years...
