Donald Thomas, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (340p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0973-1
A dramatic improvement over British author Thomas's first collection of Holmes pastiches, The Secret Cases of Sherlock Holmes
(1998), this second story compendium continues to feature the great detective investigating true-life crimes. Most of...
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Donald Thomas, Author . Pegasus $16.95 (506p) ISBN 978-1-933648-17-0
The latest installment in Thomas's fascinating series unearthing the
\t\t sordid underbelly of Britain (The Victorian
\t\t Underworld) examines the postwar years, concluding his survey in the
\t\t gritty 1970s. Between 1944 and 1945, he finds,...
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Donald Thomas, Author . Pegasus $25 (351p) ISBN 978-1-933648-22-4
The five long tales in Thomas's third Sherlock Holmes collection (after 2002's Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt
) offer gripping plots and masterfully evoke the flavor of Doyle's original stories of the great detective....
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Donald Thomas, Author Pegasus $25 (325p) ISBN 978-1-60598-043-0
While not up to the high standard of Sherlock Holmes and the Voice from the Crypt
(2002), Thomas's fourth pastiche collection conveys the tone and spirit of Conan Doyle's original tales with nary a false note. In the clever “The...
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Donald Thomas, Pegasus, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60598-134-5
Henry James's The Turn of the Screw provides the inspiration for the lengthy title tale of Thomas's superb fifth collection of Sherlock Holmes pastiches (after 2009's Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil). In 1898, Holmes and Watson intervene on...
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Donald Thomas, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-312-05443-4
As a scourge of hypocrisy and pomp, he drew the ire of the British upper class; as the exponent of a rational morality buttressed by Socratic stoicism, he was at odds with the rising vogues of evangelical piety and ``sensibility.'' It's from...
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Donald Thomas, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-312-10447-4
Trying to move up in postwar Britain, a small-time con man and cat burglar rips off a big-time crime boss, leaving a complement of unappealing characters fighting over the spoils. In this complex, difficult-to-follow plot, even Inspector Jack Rutter
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Donald Thomas, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0516-0
Readers of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche have every right to expect a reasonable iteration of Conan Doyle's original creation, a detective whose essential humanity is cloaked in aloofness and whose superior intellect serves a passion to expose crimes....
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Donald Thomas. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-60598-394-3
Master pasticher Thomas demonstrates that his gifts at creating new Holmes short stories, most recently in 2010’s Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly, extend to the harder task of sustaining character, atmosphere, and plot over a full-length novel,
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Donald Thomas, Author, Henry Mayhew, Author New York University Press $50 (346p) ISBN 978-0-8147-8238-5
""A vivid tableau of debauchery and sadism"" is the way Thomas describes the newspaper and magazine coverage of Victorian prostitution, but he may as well be describing his own book. The author of biographies of Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade,
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Donald Thomas, read by John Telfer. AudioGO, unabridged, 10 CDs, 10 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-173-0
John Telfer turns in an uneven performance in the audio version of Thomas's collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories. Back again for new adventures, Holmes and faithful friend and colleague Dr. John Watson clash wits with ghosts, frauds, and...
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