Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) was a Belgian

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, short stories, and

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Yves Varende. Between 1968 and 1977, he was

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of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine '' Spirou''. He published several highly documented anthologies and studies about popular " Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century. He also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels.The Belgian fantasy literature
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Works

Sci-fi novels

* ''Les Gadgets de l'Apocalypse ''(1978) * ''Les Tueurs de l'Ordre'' (1980) * ''Tuez les Tous'' (1980)

Non-fiction studies

* Introduction to the Belgian re-edition (in French language) of the Lord Lister German novels - Claude Lefrancq Editeur

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1995 (Vol.I) 1996 (Vol.II)

Holmesian novels

* ''Le Requin de la Tamise'' Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1997 * ''le Tueur dans le

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'' * ''Le Secret de l'Ile au Chien'' * ''Les Meurtres du

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'' Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1998 * ''L'otage de Fraulein Doktor'' * ''Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes'' anthology (Fleuve noir 1999)

Anthologies

* ''Sherlock Holmes revient '': an

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of six

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anonymous short stories (translated in

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) originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by

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. (1996, éditions Fleuve Noir, collection Super Poche n° 27)

Notes

External links

''Sherlock Holmes revient''

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