The Scoundrel of Bohemia

The Moriarty Paradigm

by Adrian Middleton, Arthur Conan Doyle (With)

When a masked Count hires Sherlock Holmes to retrieve incriminating evidence, he is plunged into a world of fraud, political intrigue and armed assassins. Will the scoundrel regain his property, or will Miss Adler become the first woman to truly outsmart the great detective? Meanwhile, thirty years earlier, a time traveller arrives in the slums of Old London, intent on exacting the most daring masterplan in history. His name... Professor James Moriarty. Conspiracies. Assassins. Time Machines. The Scoundrel of Bohemia begins a new journey for Sherlock Holmes, reinventing his career in the Moriarty Paradigm--a very different British Empire where the words of Conan Doyle stand alongside the science of Wells and Verne in the first of a series of mash-ups set to reimagine the original canon as it would happen in a steampunked world.

102 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2014

About the author

The son of a policeman, Adrian grew up in Birmingham, and is a former civil servant and policy adviser on broadband and digital content. He is now a consultant and owner of Fringeworks Ltd.

As well as writing under a number of pseudonyms, he is the editor of Shelf Life, a Doctor Who anthology, Fringeworks' Moriarty paradigm and Weird Trails series, and several forthcoming anthologies.

Reviews

[Danielle Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite enjoyed this steampunked Holmes - the two stories are interesting and well written, but much of the book is notes, background and transcripts of forum conversations. Good taster (and about to start reading the second volume in the series), but basically two short stories and a load of odds and ends which I skimmed through.