A VERY UNIQUE novel if there ever was one!
PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE DESCRIPTION BEFORE YOU BUY OR BORROW. BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS AMAZING NOVEL IS BEFORE YOU COMMIT!
HERE ARE SOME REVIEWS FROM EARLIER PAPERBACK AND HARDCOVER EDITIONS:
“Really quite a good deal of fun...strikingly unique. I look forward to more.”—Jim Sanderson (Goodreads)
“I've just finished reading the Great Detective at the Crucible of Life and I must say it's one of the best books I've ever read. It's absolutely amazing.”—N.G.
“A fun trip. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel . . .”— fredtownward (Amazon)
“A masterful tale! . . . I found the book to be very entertaining and difficult to put down.— Golden Fleece (Amazon)"
“It's fun.”—Philip K. Jones (Amazon)
"RECOMMENDED: A sheer joy!"—SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Great Detective in Paperback and Pastiche (2008)
"I couldn't wait to finish the book and at the same time not wanting it to end."—JWC (Amazon)
"“Great fun with literature! I won't say I couldn't put this book down. Of course I did, several times, to eat, to sleep. But I didn't WANT to!"—Anonymouse (Amazon)
"Immensely enjoyable!"—John Betancourt, Publisher Wildside Press
“I urge anybody who hasn't yet read it to buy a copy. . . .”—Daniel Baldridge (Amazon)
"There is humour, horror, action, suspense, mystery and history. But above all, there is an open challenge to all the readers to go through this complex web of stories and get to the end to work out one's own solution for the mystery of life."—Riju Ganguly (Goodreads and Amazon.uk)
“Compelling story. I highly recommend this book, and am hoping the author will give us more of the same—R. Bennett (Amazon)
“A thoughtful adventure! Thos. Kent Miller has created a remarkable literary melting pot that will certainly appeal to fans of Alan Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" series or of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton universe.”—mcduck (Amazon)
“Thrilling adventure”—Rodger C. Miller
More than a thrilling adventure or mystery, this novel is a celebration! It is a 340-page love letter built on a framework of allusions—to the lost city of Petra, Lester and Judy-Lynn Del Rey and Ballantine Books, H. P. Lovecraft, Frederick Edwin Church and the Hudson River School of landscape painting, the William S. Baring-Gould school of the Sherlock Holmes scholarship, American astronomer Maria Mitchell, Jules Verne and The Journey to the Center of the Earth, Rudyard Kipling and “The Man Who Would Be King,” Wilkie Collin’s The Moonstone, Ben-Hur (the book and the movies), meteorites, the Holy Grail, mystical horror master Arthur Machen, and Uncle Scrooge and the Junior Woodchuck’s Guidebook—and that’s just for starters!
Recently found among obscure papers of H.P. Lovecraft, this new manuscript chronicles a complex and mysterious quest by Allan Quatermain and his sidekick Hans deep into the deserts of Ethiopia in 1872, propelling readers into a maelstrom of ideas and adventures—relentlessly descending into a scholarly labyrinth of books within books, manuscripts within manuscripts, and tales within tales..
Think of all those Sherlock Holmes that you've read and enjoyed. Don’t they almost always begin with a couple or more pages of deadly serious Introduction explaining how Watson’s manuscript was found? This book is a thought-provoking, cheerfully fun PARODY OF THAT CONVENTION of pseudo-Introductions in Holmes pastiches. BUT, IF YOU DON'T CARE FOR INTRODUCTIONS AND PREFACES, PLEASE AVOID THIS BOOK. Realize that ALL the front matter is intimately tied to the plot and CANNOT be skipped.
YOU'RE BEING FAIRLY WARNED! For heaven’s sakes, don’t read this book and then give it a one-star, one-line, anonymous “flame”, "hit & run" review labeled “Terrible!” or “Extraordinarily Disappointing!” or “Boring!” just because it’s UTTERLY DIFFERENT from what you expected or it’s like nothing else you ever encountered or read.
Coming soon in August 2013, the sequel—ALLAN QUATERMAIN AT THE DAWN OF TIME
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