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The Infernal Device and Others: A Professor Moriarty Omnibus (Professor Moriarty Novels)
Michael Kurland
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001
excellent period piece(s)
fun, exciting, fast-paced adventure. moriarty and holmes used to be good friends who have had a falling out, but still respect each other's abilities.
this book is about moriarty and his side business of solving problems for people, in this case the russian ...
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The Great Game: A Professor Moriarty Novel
Michael Kurland
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003
Total Page Turner
Michael Kurland has written a terrific book that contains clues and subplots that will keep the pages turning. As a reader, you get an deep understand of who each of the characters are, and you develop a new perspective of Professor Moriarty. In all honesty, I think ...
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My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004
Entertaining feast!
"My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective" has been a Michael Kurland-special, so to say. Like his Professor Moriarty series, this book contains adventures truly and properly enshrined within the world of Sherlock Holmes, and yet are different in the ...
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How to Try a Murder: The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers
Michael Kurland
Book Sales, 2002
Very good reference for mystery writers.
This book contains information essential to creating a courtroom drama. Within the pages of this book you will find everything from the prospective jury questionnaire of the O.J. Simpson criminal trial to a glossary of legal terms. If you are planning to write (or ...
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Study In Sorcery (Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy)
Michael Kurland
Ace, 1989
A faithful pastiche
The author Randall Garrett wrote a series of novels and short stories about an alternate universe where Richard the Lion Hearted lived to a ripe old age, and his Plantangent descendents rule over a just and noble Anglo-French empire. Oh, and the laws of magic have ...
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
Michael Kurland
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
Excellent Holmes collection
Michael Kurland must be the reincarnation of Dr. John Watson with his powerful exciting Sherlock Holmes chronicles with the Moriarty twist. This time around he edits a terrific anthology from a who's who including many contributors who have written Baker St. stories. ...
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The Empress of India: A Professor Moriarty Novel (Professor Moriarty Novels)
Michael Kurland
St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006
fabulous historical mystery
In 1890, the Empress of India leaves Calcutta carrying a quarter-ton of gold to deliver to the Bank of England in London. The vessel also carries an assortment of passengers including the notorious Professor James Moriarty and the malevolent Colonel Sebastian Moran. ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Memory
Michael Kurland
Alpha, 1999
excellent book for an older medical student like myself
i enjoyed the complete idiot's guide to improving your memory very much. i was very nervous about medical school. i was 39 years old. i didn't know if i could handle the intensity of the medical studies. my physician told me to buy and study this book a few weeks ...
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The Unicorn Girl
Michael Kurland
Cosmos Books, 2002
and here we are still reading...
I was not yet a teenager when I read this book - more than 20 years ago - and I still love it and will buy it whenever I come across it to share with special people. I was THRILLED with the idea of other possible worlds, pleased as punch by the wit and comedy ...
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Ten Little Wizards
Michael Kurland
Ace, 1988
A suspense/mystery in an alternate history England
Garrett's Lord Darcy revisited. The original 3 stories were take-offs of classic Sherlock Holmes stories but set in an England based on Richard the Lion Hearted having retained power and the Plantagenet dynasty having continued for several generations. A system of ...
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How To Solve a Murder: The Forensic Handbook
Michael Kurland
Wiley, 1995
Accessible and well-researched
I'd sum up this book as accessible, well-researched, nicely illustrated, and altogether pleasant to read. I bought this book to help research a mystery novel I'm writing myself, and I found it quite adequate for that purpose. The author uses the device of describing a ...
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Adventure (v. 1)
MonkeyBrain Books, 2005
Shame on me for not reviewing this sooner!
First of all, I am a voracious reader of pulp and adventure. When the two are combined, magic happens! Chris Roberson, thank you! I really enjoyed your Van Helsing story. Beware, there be tygers has never been truer...but then I love anything to do with mysterious ...
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Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen: A Just Free Market Solution for Saving Social Security
Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, ...
Center for Economic and Social Justice, 2004
Ownership is THE Key!
I am not an economist but that has not prevented me from seeing the solid and compelling arguments laid out in this book to truly turn the United States into an "ownership" society. Many may feel we already have that. I would agree that we have it to a point. But, ...
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The Girls in the High Heeled Shoes (Alexander Brass Mysteries)
Michael Kurland
St. Martin's Griffin, 1998
Michael Kurland is brilliant!
Michael Kurland is one of the best writers in the genre -- I highly recommend his work!
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries
Michael Kurland
Alpha, 2000
Excellent primer to history's most baffling mysteries
As my title blurb states this "Idiot's Guide" is an excellent primer to all the principal conundrums throughout the centuries. Six broad areas are explored:
-- Disappearances: ships, planes, peoples and lost colonies.
-- People Power: ESP, fortune tellers, prophets ...
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