The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of short fiction by the prolific award winning British fantasy writer Michael Moorcock

Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock is an English writer, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published a number of literary novels....

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The stories chart the adventures of the Holmesian detective Sir Seaton Begg, his trusty sidekick Dr. Taffy Sinclair and his complex relationship with his cousin, nemesis, and occasional ally, Monsieur Zenith

Monsieur Zenith

Monsieur Zenith the Albino is an ambiguous villain created by writer Anthony Skene for the "Sexton Blake" series of detective pulp fiction.Zenith is an albinistic, world-weary gentleman thief, originally Romanian nobility but in exile for undetermined reasons. He is full of an ennui which can only...

. The stories are set in an eclectic range of times and places and were written over the course of Moorcock's long career. "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius," first appeared in 1966 while "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera," is published here for the first time. The book features characters from the Moorcock 'multiverse' including the ubiquitous Una Persson

Una Persson

Una Persson is a recurring character in many of Michael Moorcock's 'multiverse' novels. She has also been used as a character in stories by other writers...

. Begg owes much to the character of Sexton Blake

Sexton Blake

Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who appeared in many British comic strips and novels throughout the 20th century. He was described by Professor Jeffrey Richards on the BBC in The Radio Detectives in 2003 as "the poor man's Sherlock Holmes"...

, the eponymous magazine on which Moorcock began his literary career in his mid teens. Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

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termed the stories rather too 'broad' in their parody of established detective tropes http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591025966.

Contents

• "The Affair of the Seven Virgins"
• "Crimson Eyes"
• "The Ghost Warriors"
• "The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade"
• "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
• "Sir Milk-and-Blood"
• "The Mystery of the Texas Twister"
• "London Flesh"
• "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius"
• "The Affair of Le Bassin des Hivers"
• "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera"