Tales of the Parodyverse - Holmes and Houdini

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Here's why HH hasn't got any PVB story done this week

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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 05:39:13 pm EST (Viewed 8 times)

Sorry not to get an Untold Tales out this week. I'm under a bit of time pressure re deadlines and responsibilities, but I haven't forgotten it.

Meanwhile, here's one of the things that distracted me. My long-delayed HOLMES AND HOUDINI novel finally came out this week. Below is the official blurb plus some links to a sample of the story and to an audio interview and a blog interview I recently did on the subject.

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HOLMES AND HOUDINI

The Far Edge Club, rich bored thrill-seekers who play games with human life, man-hunt their most exciting prey, world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini. The iconic image of L'Inconnu, an unidentified drowned girl pulled from the Seine, becomes an inspiration for kidnap and murder. On the anniversary of a fateful meeting at Reichenbach Falls, Mr Sherlock Holmes receives a plaster death-mask of his old foe Professor Moriarty. A secret from a notorious South African concentration camp theatens to provoke mass murder in the capital of the British Empire.

What better occassion to demand the alliance of Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective, and rising star Harry Houdini, adventurer, escapologist, and showman extraordinare? I.A. Watson's first full-length Holmes mystery chronicles the meeting - the game is afoot and the show must go on!

An account by Dr John H. Watson of his meeting with American impresario Mr Martin Beck, managing agent of Mr Harry Houdini (novel extract)

A podcast about HOLMES AND HOUDINI wherein I.A. Watson chats with Art Sippo at ArtsReview.

An interview about HOLMES AND HOUDINI and LABOURS OF HERCULES at Ralph's Rants.

"Holmes and Houdini"
by I.A. Watson
ISBN-10: 0997786809
ISBN-13: 978-0997786804
Published by Airship 27
Release date: January 2017
Retail Price: $16.99
Kindle version available
$3 e-version also available at The Airship 27 Hangar>/a>

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Holmes and Houdini · Here's why HH hasn't got any PVB story done this week · Mon Jan 30, 2017 at 05:39:13 pm EST
- They do make for an intriguing pairing. (no text) · Al B. Harper · Fri Feb 03, 2017 at 07:19:38 pm EST
  - In the interim between me writing this and it seeing print, British TV also did a Houdini and Doyle series. (no text) · HH hasn't seen it but understands that it did not do... well. · Fri Feb 03, 2017 at 07:30:58 pm EST
- That's a fun concept! · Visionary · Tue Jan 31, 2017 at 12:37:44 am EST
  - I can't claim credit. The publisher pitched it and approached me to write it. · HH · Fri Feb 03, 2017 at 07:33:41 pm EST