Thierry Martens was a Belgian author who wrote under the pen name

Pen name

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 Yves Varende, writer of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 and detective novels, short stories

Short Stories

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 and comics

Comics

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. Between 1968 and 1978, he was redactor of the famous Belgian Journal de Spirou comics magazine. He published several highly-documented anthologies and studies about popular "Holmesian-style

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...

" crime novels of the early twentieth century in French language. He also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in the French language as well as super-science novels

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 Brussels
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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 Fog
  Fog
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• Le Secret de l'Ile au Chien
• Les Meurtres du Titanic Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1998
• L'otage de Fraulein Doktor
• Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes anthology (Fleuve noir 1999)

Anthologies

• Sherlock Holmes revient : anthology of six German anonymous short stories (translated in French) originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by editor/translator. (1996, éditions Fleuve Noir, collection Super Poche n° 27)

Related entries

• A.J. Raffles vs. the contemporary German Lord Lister

External links

Sherlock Holmes revient L'Echo du Canon the French Sherlock Holmes society quarterly

• The European Wold Newton Universe - detectives characters section