Lord Darcy, prefiguring his later success as a mystery writer.
Following the success of ''The Infernal Device'', which was nominated for an
Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the bes ...
(as was his earlier ''A Plague of Spies''), Kurland turned his attention to detective fiction. Several of his subsequent novels have been sequels to ''The Infernal Device'', and feature
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
's nemesis,
Professor Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could ...
. In this series, Professor Moriarty is an antihero (and sometimes a real hero) who resignedly tolerates Holmes's obsessively exaggerated opinion of his criminal empire, and is often brought into reluctant alliance with his nemesis in order to counter menaces ranging from threats to their associates to threats to the nation.
He has edited three themed anthologies of
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...
short stories, ''My Sherlock Holmes'' (stories narrated by characters other than Watson or Holmes), ''Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years'' (stories set during the period in which Holmes was supposed to be dead) and ''Sherlock Holmes: the American Years'' (stories set in the time between Holmes' graduation from university and his meeting Dr. Watson).
He is also the author of numerous non-fiction works, including ''How to Solve a Murder: the Forensic Handbook'' and ''How to Try a Murder: the Handbook for Armchair Lawyers''.
Selected works
Professor Moriarty series
*''The Infernal Device'' (1978); reprinted in ''The Infernal Device and others''
*''Death by Gaslight'' (1982); reprinted in ''The Infernal Device and others''
*"The Paradol Paradox" (in ''The Infernal Device and others'', 2001; ''Victorian Villainy'', 2011)
*''The Great Game'' (2001)
*"Years Ago and in a Different Place" (in ''My Sherlock Holmes'', 2003; ''Victorian Villainy'', 2011)
*"Reichenbach" (in ''Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years'', 2004; ''Victorian Villainy'', 2011)
*''The Empress of India'' (2006)
*"The Picture of Oscar Wilde" (included in both ''Victorian Villainy'', 2011 and ''My Love of All that is Bizarre'', 2013)
*''Who Thinks Evil'' (2014)
Lord Darcy series
*''
Ten Little Wizards'' (1988)
*''
A Study in Sorcery
''A Study in Sorcery'' is an alternate history novel by Michael Kurland featuring Randall Garrett's fictional detective character Lord Darcy (character), Lord Darcy. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in 1989.
The Lord Darcy stories ...
'' (1989)
Alexander Brass series
*''Too Soon Dead''
*''The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes''
*"He Couldn't Fly" (in ''The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits'')
War Incorporated series
*''Mission: Third Force'' (1967)
*''Mission: Tank War'' (1968)
*''A Plague of Spies'' (1969)
Science fiction
*''Ten Years to Doomsday'' (with Chester Anderson) (1964)
*''
The Unicorn Girl
''The Unicorn Girl'' is a science fiction novel by Michael Kurland, originally released in 1969, that follows the adventures of two men from San Francisco in the 60s after they meet a mysterious young woman looking for her missing unicorn. This no ...
'' (1969)
*''Transmission Error'' (1970)
*''Pluribus'' (1975)
*''The Whenabouts of Burr'' (1975)
*''Tomorrow Knight'' (1976)
*''The Princes of Earth'' (Young Adult) (1978)
*''The Last President'' (S. W. Barton) (1980)
*''Psi Hunt'' (1980)
*''First Cycle'' (posthumous editing and expanding of a manuscript by
H. Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 – ) was an American science fiction writer. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alt ...
) (1982)
*''Star Griffin'' (1987)
*''Perchance'' (1988)
*''Button Bright'' (1990)
Anthologies (as editor)
*''My Sherlock Holmes: Untold Stories of the Great Detective'' (2003)
*''Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years'' (2004)
*''Sherlock Holmes: The American Years'' (2010)
Short stories
*"Elementary" (with Laurence M. Janifer) (1964)
*"Bond of Brothers" (1965)
Please State My Business (1965)
*"Fimbulsommer" (with Randall Garrett) (1970)
*"Small World" (1973)
*"Think Only This of Me" (1973)
*"A Brief Dance to the Music of the Spheres" (1983)
*"In the Blood" (1995)
*"The Rite Stuff" (2004)
*"Four Hundred Slaves" (2005)
Nonfiction
*''The Spymaster's Handbook'' (1988)
*''A Gallery of Rogues: Portraits in True Crime'' (1994)
*''How to Solve a Murder: The Forensic Handbook'' (1995)
*''How to Try a Murder: The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers'' (1997)
*''Irrefutable Evidence – Adventures in the History of Forensic Science'' (2009)
References
External links
Author's Home Page*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurland, Michael
1938 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
American mystery writers
American science fiction writers
Writers from California
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers