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Three and a half stars for this one, but first, a bit of background: Hugo Award winning fantasy/sci-fi author Philip Jose Farmer had long been keen on heroic literary figures and, specifically, on pulp heroes. To satisfy this fascination, he imagined the Wold Newton universe, in which he hypothesized that the meteorite which crashed into Wold Newton, England in 1795 was the source of the family-tree of “supermen” whose feats have since then been fictionalized in books. Two members of this family are Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan of the Apes. In 1974, Farmer “edited” John Watson’s THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEERLESS PEER, which chronicled the fateful encounter between the Great Detective and the Jungle Lord.In 1916, set in the throes of the first World War, Mycroft Holmes of the Front Office sends his brother Sherlock and Dr. Watson on a perilous mission to regain a stolen formula. Their adversary is the dangerous German agent Von Bork, whose criminal exploits Watson had previously chronicled


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