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RARA-AVIS: My hound is quick.
Hardboiled Sherlock Holmes? Yes, hardboiled Sherlock Holmes. And
not just once, but two examples of such can be found in _Resurrected
Holmes Edited by Marvin Kaye and publisted by St. Martin's Press in
1996.
Resurrected Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories
written in the styles of diffrent authors. And it is quite a diverse
line up of authors that they have picked with amoung others H.G.
Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac showing up! But of
interest to the readers of this List are _The Madness of Colonel
Warburton by Carole Bugge `ascribed' to Dashiell Hammett, and the
even more unbelievable _The Adventure of the Cripple Parade or The
Singular Affair of the Aluminium Crutch by William L. DeAndrea
`ascribed' to Mickey Spillane.
Both are, to say the least, played for laughs. But Bugge and
DeAndrea still do a good enough job of geting both the styles of the
authors while staying...mostly...in the world of Baker Street. They
are both a hoot, as are the other stories in the book. And if nothing
else a look in an alternet reality.
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