Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9780972166867
ISBN number: 0972166866
Label: Moonstone
Manufacturer: Moonstone
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 216
Printing Date: March 11, 2003
Publishing house: Moonstone
Sale Popularity Level: 1551124
Studio: Moonstone
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Sherlock Holmes TPB vol.1: This big tome reprints the award winning team of Martin Powell and Seppo Makinen's 'Scarlet in Gaslight' and 'A Case of Blind Fear'. First, in 'Scarlet in Gaslight', the Great Detective comes face to face with the master vampire Count Dracula. A beautfil young woman is afflicted with a strange anemia, losing her blood for no apparent reason. Called in to investigate, Holmes and Watson meet the eccentric Dr. Van Helsing, a noted scientist with an obsession for the occult. Together the three men uncover the most insidious plot ever master-minded by Holmes' nemesis, the infamous Professor Moriarty. Only Holmes himself has the ability to stop Moriary's diabolical vampire invasion, but the cost may be his very sanity, his life, and ultimately, his mortal soul. In the second mystery, 'A Case of Blind Fear', strange occurrences are plaguing 1895 London. A fruit vender sees an apple suspended in mid-air like a balloon, a clerk encounters a ghostly apparition, only its skeleton and internal organs visible, and a large quality of obscure drugs has been stolen from several London chemists. Then there began the murders. Murders that no one seemed to commit. Was it a plague of hallucinations or was London truly haunted by a monstrous unseen evil? The Great Detective is called into the case by Scotland Yard itself to uncover the horror and mystery of the Invisible Man.
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Before you buy this, you should know, it is a comic book. I think it is referred to as a graphic novel but I missed that in the description and was very surprised to find little text. The stories are reasonable but if you are in the mood to settle down with a good story, forget it, it's very disconcerting to read.
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Martin Powell is one of the greatest novelists alive, even if the twin peaks of his achievement are based on the novels of other men (Bram Stoker and H G Wells), not to mention the entire corpus of Sherlock Holmes stories. He is able to take the elements that made Dracula or The Invisible Man so memorable, and to isolate them, then shake them up in a box with the lore of the man from Baker Street, and the graphic novel was never the same again.
I prefer "Scarlet in Gaslight" to "A Case of Blind Fear," but probably only because the setup of Dracula is so much more familiar to me than the Wells novel, and thus I don't have to search the far corners of my brain to compare Powell's innovations to the UR-text he's working from. But in truth, A CASE OF BLIND FEAR is actually more original and startling than SCARLET in many ways, foregrounding the wealth of invention Powell has at his fingertips.
The reproduction of the comic panels is another matter however, and it is here that the book falls down and Moonstone Books should rethink their policy. The book is simply too small and in some cases you can hardly read the dialogue without a magnnifying glass--just like Sherlock Holmes. But others will have sharper eyes than I, and I guarantee you'll find this book well worth the investment you make. "The hunt is afoot!"
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