Professor Moriarty Omnibus

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The two books in this volume, The Infernal Device and Death by Gaslight, are set in, let us call it, the "world" of Sherlock Holmes. The third book in the series, The Great Game, is due out in hardcover from St. Martin's Press momentarily. A fourth book, tentatively titled The Empress of India, should follow in the coming year.

These books have Professor James Moriarty as a protagonist and Sherlock Holmes himself as a major character. They are set in the world Conan Doyle established for his brilliant detective, which centers on the London at the end of the nineteenth century; a world of hansom cabs and gas lamps, coal scuttles and gasogenes, clever disguises, secret societies, and a pea-soup fog that surrounds, envelops, and turns every passing footstep into a mystery and the sound of each passing four-wheeler into a romance. Conan Doyle's creation remains with all of us, as Vincent Starrett has said, "in a romantic chamber of the heart, a nostalgic corner of the mind, where it is always 1895."

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