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From Monsters and Critics.com Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Book Reviews Detective Sir Seaton Begg with his faithful sidekick Dr. Taffy Sinclair crosses swords with nemesis and distant relation Monsieur Zenith, an opium addicted, red-eyed albino in a disjointed series of time hopping heists, murders and strange encounters. The many Holmes parallels are hard to miss giving this homage to penny detective Sexton Blake a less then original feel as the two antagonists continue to meet in unlikely circumstances throughout the world. A soul-eating black blade and the Holy Grail are recurring themes in this collection that includes Texas’s own Masked Buckaroo, Hitler and assorted gentleman bandits in this slightly tongue-in-cheek take on the detective genre that fails to live up to its promise.
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