Edgar finalist Kurland (The Great Game) offers an anthology of 13 new, mostly top-drawer Sherlock Holmes stories, all featuring viewpoints other than Dr. Watson's. Richard Lupoff is true to Poe's descriptive, psychological style in "The Case of the Impecunious Chevalier,
" in which a youthful Holmes goes to Paris to help Auguste Dupin retrieve a rare golden bird icon. In Gary Lovisi's "Mycroft's Great Game," Sherlock's older brother finds himself in an implausible alliance with archfiend Prof. Moriarty while playing an exaggerated game of power politics. In Kurland's own outstanding tale, "Years Ago and in a Different Place,"
Moriarty defends his reputation against Watson's insinuations by telling of his undergraduate days with Holmes investigating a bizarre campus murder together. Peter Tremayne, Cara Black and Barbara Hambly also contribute worthy adventures. (Feb. 28)
