New from Michael Moorcock: 1930s mystery for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who

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In the alternate historical thriller The Albino’s Secret, these detectives are sent back in time to chase an assassin through the streets of Istanbul.

In the new novel The Albino’s Secret (Book #1 of Metatemporal Detectives), Detective Sir Seaton Begg and Doctor Sinclair have been sent undercover by Britain’s Temporal Agency to 1930s Istanbul. They’re assigned to hunt for the Red King, the leader of a secret group of assassins plotting to change the shape of the world.  

But with Nazi forces also in Istanbul, Begg and Philips are thrust into a city that’s in transition from the ancient to the modern—and are hard pressed on all sides by assassins and betrayals…

Co-written by Michael Moorcock and Mark Hodder, The Albino’s Secret is a “Doctor Who-meets-Sherlock Holmes” alternate history thriller. A mash-up of fantasy, action, and adventure, this thriller is a must-read for those who revel in the thrill of the chase and the allure of the unknown.

The Albino’s Secret

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About The Albino’s Secret authors:

Michael Moorcock  

Hailed by Time as one of the “fifty greatest British writers since 1945,” Michael Moorcock has been named more than once as one of the most influential authors alive today. He’s also won lots of awards and been handed several lifetime achievement awards, and is also in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.  

Moorcock has published at least 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in like every genre. His most well-known character, Elric of Melnibone, debuted in 1961 with the novella “The Dreaming City.” Over the decades since, Moorcock’s famous albino antihero has actually made lots of appearances, including music, graphic literature, and role-playing games.

In an interview with Screen Rant, Moorcock talked about how when he started writing these kinds of fiction, he wasn’t following any genre conventions—because, at the time, those rules did not even exist yet.

“When I first started writing it, nobody knew what to call it at all,” Moorcock told Screen Rant. “I mean, the publishers didn’t know what to call it. There really was nothing like an adult fantasy genre… Today’s experience is just totally different.”

Find more about Michael Moorcock online at Simon & Schuster.

Mark Hodder 

The author of the award-winning steampunk series Burton & Swinburne, Mark Hodder won the the 2010 Philip K. Dick Award for the first book in that series, The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack. His standalone novel A Red Sun Also Rises transplants a version of Victorian London to another planet. His The Oxford Equation series takes place in the distant future.  

Hodder also wrote the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel published in nearly half a century. In fact, he created and maintains Blakiana: The Sexton Blake Resource.

His fiction also includes short stories, flash fiction, and vignettes.

Find Mark Hodder online at Mark-Hodder.com.

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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