''The Adventure of the Peerless Peer'' is a 1974 adventure

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novel written by Philip Jose Farmer, writing as Dr. John H. Watson, about the meeting of

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. This was one of several works Farmer wrote that involved Tarzan.

Plot

The story is presented as a lost manuscript of Watson's, edited by Farmer. On orders from his older brother Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to Africa and form an alliance with the titular peer, Lord Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan, to hunt down the nefarious Von Bork (from "

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") and stop his deadly new weapon.

Reissues

Due to copyright issues, it was rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with

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from

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replacing Tarzan—in ''The Grand Adventure'' collection (1984).The Works of PJF - Stories
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in 2011 () as part of ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' series. It has the abbreviated title of ''The Peerless Peer''.

References

External links

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