MURDER MYSTERY, REAL LIFE CRIME, TOPOGRAPHY,
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For the first time in fifty years, The Game is Afoot brings the best and most sought-after of these writings together in a wide-ranging compilation sure to delight fans of the great detective everywhere.

Ranging from the early parodies of Bret Harte, O. Henry, James M. Barrie, Stephen Leacock, R.C. Lehmann, and John Kendrick Bangs, to the later pastiches of Anthony Boucher, Daniel M. Pinkwater, John Dickson Carr, Fritz Leiber and Robert Bloch, Marvin Kaye brings together over fifty pieces representing the full range of a century of Holmesian writing. Including pieces from eminent Sherlockians such as Vincent Starrett, Isaac Asimov, Maurice Baring, and Edgar Smith and from unlikely writers such as Basil Rathbone, Zasu Pitts, Frederic Dorr Steele, and Conan Doyle himself, The Game If Afoot is the next best thing to a trip to 221B Baker Street itself.

Hardback
St. Martin's Press, New York 1994
14.6 x 21.3cm
512 pages

$45.50