Victorian Villainy A Collection of Moriarty Stories edition by Michael Kurland Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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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 Kurland explore an alternate possibility that Moriarty wasn’t evil at all, that his villainy was less along the lines of Fu Manchu and more like Robin Hood or Simon Templar. And the reason for Sherlock Holmes’ characterization of him as “the Napoleon of crime” was that the professor was one of the few men he’d ever met who was smarter than he—and he couldn’t stand it!
Victorian Villainy A Collection of Moriarty Stories edition by Michael Kurland Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I've read two of Michael Kurland's previous Moriarty novels and loved them, and I expected more of the same from this collection of stories. I was not disappointed.This collection includes an "origin" story detailing the first meeting - and the cause of the emnity - between Holmes and Moriarty; Professor Moriarity's version of the events leading to and following Reichenbach Falls; "The Picture of Oscar Wilde", which is exactly what the title implies; and "The Paradol Paradox", a story that's appeared elsewhere, featuring Moriarity's very own Dr. Watson, an American news reporter turned partner-in-crime.
The stories are all evocative and exceedingly well-written. Moriarty is an entertaining narrator, and seeing the world of Sherlock Holmes from his perspective (a description that the Professor would doubtless find most offensive) is a treat.
If you're at all a fan of Holmes, or Victorian-era fiction, or just of good writing, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Highly recommended!
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Victorian Villainy A Collection of Moriarty Stories edition by Michael Kurland Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
The author catches ACD's mood and story sense perfectly. Stories are tight and consistent with Holmes mythos. Very enjoyable
I LOVE THIS SERIES! It's smartly plotted and has many interesting support characters and settings. Moriarty as the anti-hero is pitch perfect. I think this is one of the finest Sherlockian series to ever come out. HIGHLY recommend.
This book takes all things of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and basically pitches it out the window. The author is a fine writer and produces good books, but he didn't try to develop the Moriarty from the classic Holmes tales. He came up with his own character and either you'll like his version or you won't.
A collection of Kurland's Moriarty stories. Though many of them have appeared elsewhere, they are amusing. I love the view of Moriarty as a "consulting criminal" who is a revel against Victorian hypocrisy. A great read, However, as I have said elsewhere, the tale of how Holmes and Moriarty became alienated is probably the weakest of the bunch.
I ran across the first two novels The Infernal Device and Death By Gaslight many years ago and enjoyed them greatly. The idea of Moriarty being Holmes' exact opposite, a consulting criminal instead of a consulting detective, is what makes these novels work. Moriarty's reaction to Holmes (basically, "Of course i expected you today, Holmes! A crime was committed yesterday so I must be responsible!") indicates a man with more depth than Conan Doyle wanted/needed to show us.
If you can accept the concept that Moriarty was not the incarnation of evil Holmes said he was, you may very well enjoy these novels and short stories.
Michael Kurland's "Death by Gaslight" was the first book set in the world of Sherlock Holmes that I ever read (circa 1984) that wasn't written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And it's been the standard by which I've judged everything else since. I had thought that Kurland was finished with this world, and then I found Victorian Villany.
What a wonderful collection of stories! Professor Moriarty is a fabulous hero, and Kurland's depiction of Sherlock Holmes as an obsessed, angry man who (for once) refuses to apply logic and reason, finally gets an explanation in this volume. It's a must read for anyone who's enjoyed Kurland's other forays into the world of the consulting detective.
If you're already a Michael Kurland fan, you're not reading this review because you've already bought or ordered this book.
For those who aren't, M.K. is one of those unappreciated gems of a writer. I can't imagine what your first impression of this book from the title and cover art might be, but I can assure you, the cover does not give even a decent clue to what's inside.
Almost every writer at some point in their career is tempted to write a Sherlock Holmes story, or "homage" or "pastiche", or whatever you want to call it. There are hundreds of them in and out of print. Probably thousands if you could track down all the short stories. Most of them are terrible.
Years ago, M.K. succumbed to this same temptation and the result was the book "The Infernal Device". (A great book! Highly recommended!) He's written several more in the same series and this book is a collection of several shorter works in the "Moriarty" universe. The thing about M.K. is that he's not just a good writer, he's also someone whose just thinks *differently*. He can always look at something from a fresh perspective, can offer his readers something new and different that they haven't read before.
So instead of writing Yet Another Awful Holmes Pastiche, M.K. created a universe where Moriarty is the hero, not the evil villain. A criminal, yes. Where Holmes is the consulting detective, Moriarty is the consulting criminal. But where Holmes is often defending the indefensible injustices of the Victorian class system or British colonialism, Moriarty is a Robin Hood who subscribes to a higher code of justice than mere law.
The clever thing is that this is the *same* universe as recorded by Dr. Watson in the canon of Holmes stories, just seen from a different point of view, and with the benefit of knowledge Watson did not possess.
This particular collection is some of the best M.K. has done lately. It tacks closer to the Holmes canon than before, and fills in some unanswered questions about this universe, giving us the origin story of how Holmes and Moriarty first met and became enemies, and what *REALLY* happened a Richenbach Falls.
Read it!
I've read two of Michael Kurland's previous Moriarty novels and loved them, and I expected more of the same from this collection of stories. I was not disappointed.
This collection includes an "origin" story detailing the first meeting - and the cause of the emnity - between Holmes and Moriarty; Professor Moriarity's version of the events leading to and following Reichenbach Falls; "The Picture of Oscar Wilde", which is exactly what the title implies; and "The Paradol Paradox", a story that's appeared elsewhere, featuring Moriarity's very own Dr. Watson, an American news reporter turned partner-in-crime.
The stories are all evocative and exceedingly well-written. Moriarty is an entertaining narrator, and seeing the world of Sherlock Holmes from his perspective (a description that the Professor would doubtless find most offensive) is a treat.
If you're at all a fan of Holmes, or Victorian-era fiction, or just of good writing, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Highly recommended!
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