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All Things Under The Moon
Private detective Teddy London, an investigator with a knack for the supernatural, is hired by Maxim Warhelski to hunt down the killer of his client's entire family, part of a pattern of similar crimes that have occurred throughout the world.
- GenresMysteryParanormal
211 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1994
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Robert Morgan
9 booksRobert Morgan is a pseudonym of C.J. Henderson.
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April 18, 2020
If you've followed my reviews of the previous three novels in the Teddy London series by CJ Henderson ("Robert Morgan" is a pseudonym; however, so is "CJ Henderson" so...), and I don't expect you have, I was quite disappointed with the third novel. I found it to be short on plot and long on filler. I suspected that it was a bridge between the fairly good first two novels and a later work.
I was correct in that. This installment is a most interesting entry in the series, one that expands not only on the Lovecraftian mythos within which Henderson was working, but also in broader and more surprising ways. (Don't worry: I'm not going to give spoilers here.)
Let's get one things straight, though: none of these books are well-written. In fact, I suspect most of them were first drafts (U suspect Henderson had a contract with Berkley to produce 6 mystery novels in two years, so he was writing these incredibly quickly). The prose is lackluster and the characterization is practically non-existent (Henderson uses the exact same adjectives to describe every character upon their appearance in the novel: "ex-maintenance man" and/or "balding man" for London's partner Paul Morcey, "elder warrior" for Jhong, and so on).
But it would be a mistake to come to a hard-boiled detective novel expecting well-wrought prose; you come to these (in any case) for Henderson's brilliant ideas. In this novel it becomes crystal clear that not only is Henderson leading the reader interested in variations on Lovecraft's (and August Derleth's) themes to new and fascinating places, but he is also _very_ interested in the philosophical and spiritual implications of what London discovers as he faces the "monsters" he faces in the outside world and his own personal demons (and guilt) inside himself and on the "dream plane." A good chunk of the rise toward the climax of this novel is taken up with London's interactions with an FBI agent who, it turns out, has been watching him (on orders) in order to learn about how to weaponize the "dream plane" for the government. That sequence, in itself, is worth reading this work and savoring the moral complexities Henderson raises.
This is definitely the best entry in this series so far, and I'm looking forward to reading the last four novels very much.
I was correct in that. This installment is a most interesting entry in the series, one that expands not only on the Lovecraftian mythos within which Henderson was working, but also in broader and more surprising ways. (Don't worry: I'm not going to give spoilers here.)
Let's get one things straight, though: none of these books are well-written. In fact, I suspect most of them were first drafts (U suspect Henderson had a contract with Berkley to produce 6 mystery novels in two years, so he was writing these incredibly quickly). The prose is lackluster and the characterization is practically non-existent (Henderson uses the exact same adjectives to describe every character upon their appearance in the novel: "ex-maintenance man" and/or "balding man" for London's partner Paul Morcey, "elder warrior" for Jhong, and so on).
But it would be a mistake to come to a hard-boiled detective novel expecting well-wrought prose; you come to these (in any case) for Henderson's brilliant ideas. In this novel it becomes crystal clear that not only is Henderson leading the reader interested in variations on Lovecraft's (and August Derleth's) themes to new and fascinating places, but he is also _very_ interested in the philosophical and spiritual implications of what London discovers as he faces the "monsters" he faces in the outside world and his own personal demons (and guilt) inside himself and on the "dream plane." A good chunk of the rise toward the climax of this novel is taken up with London's interactions with an FBI agent who, it turns out, has been watching him (on orders) in order to learn about how to weaponize the "dream plane" for the government. That sequence, in itself, is worth reading this work and savoring the moral complexities Henderson raises.
This is definitely the best entry in this series so far, and I'm looking forward to reading the last four novels very much.
January 16, 2021
The first half of the book was decent, although very little happened in the way of the actual plot. In the second half, the story just got more confusing, crazier and sillier for even this series. Arguably, the weakest of the bunch.
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