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Michael Moorcock's triumphant return to Britain's adventuring detective, Sexton Blake! His first published novel restored, revised, expanded... and presented with a brand new prequel story! A deep sea mission... A baffling murder... Beneath a sky of limpid sapphire blue, the research ship Gorgon rolls gently on the scintillating waters of the Caribbean Sea. Below, two men in a bathysphere, lowered more than a 150 fathoms into the crushing depths. But when the sphere is raised, there is only one man inside... and he has a knife in his back! Now Sexton Blake must answer an impossible question: How did the killer escape? **

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After more than seventy years of continuous publication, Sexton Blake is still the doyen of detectives. -- Daily Telegraph Delighted to see Sexton Blake still going strong - and with such aplomb! -- Agatha Christie The Sexton Blake Saga is the nearest approach to a national folk-lore -- Dorothy L Sayers [Moorcock] can gleefully give you all the formulae of every kind of story there ever was, because he's tried and tested all of them ... the master story-teller of our time. -- Angela Carter author of The Bloody Chamber, and Nights at the Circus [Moorcock] is the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British Fantasy. -- Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalaier & Clay, and Telegraph Avenue Makes Jack Reacher look like a bungling amateur...definitely not be missed. -- The Crime Review Moorcock as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and Wyndham Lewis... The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents -- J.G.Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, and The Drowned World Moorcock's influence is nothing like Tolkien's, at least on the surface, but his vision of a speculative-fiction genre that can be psychologically complex is evident in how very sophisticated some of it has become--from True Detective to Jeff VanderMeer, from David Mitchell to Under the Skin. -- The New Yorker Serious literary fun as Mark Hodder vaults to the front of the new steampunk writers pack. Elaborately researched and name-checked, THE SECRET OF ABDU EL YEZDI races Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton through a diabolically baffling maze of historical possiblities -- plus there's corsets and airships. Hard to imagine any lover of alternate British empires not being thoroughly amazed and entertained ? K.W. Jeter

Makes Jack Reacher look like a bungling amateur...definitely not be missed. - The Crime Review Delighted to see Sexton Blake still going strong - and with such aplomb! -- Agatha Christie The Sexton Blake Saga is the nearest approach to a national folk-lore -- Dorothy L Sayers After more than seventy years of continuous publication, Sexton Blake is still the doyen of detectives. -- Daily Telegraph [Moorcock] is the greatest writer of post-Tolkien British Fantasy. - Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalaier & Clay, and Telegraph Avenue Moorcock's influence is nothing like Tolkien's, at least on the surface, but his vision of a speculative-fiction genre that can be psychologically complex is evident in how very sophisticated some of it has become-from True Detective to Jeff VanderMeer, from David Mitchell to Under the Skin. - The New Yorker Moorcock as the most important successor to Mervyn Peake and Wyndham Lewis... The vast, tragic symbols by which Moorcock continually illuminates the metaphysical quest of his hero are a measure of the author's remarkable talents - J.G.Ballard, author of Empire of the Sun, Crash, and The Drowned World [Moorcock] can gleefully give you all the formulae of every kind of story there ever was, because he's tried and tested all of them ... the master story-teller of our time. - Angela Carter author of The Bloody Chamber, and Nights at the Circus Serious literary fun as Mark Hodder vaults to the front of the new steampunk writers pack. Elaborately researched and name-checked, THE SECRET OF ABDU EL YEZDI races Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton through a diabolically baffling maze of historical possiblities -- plus there's corsets and airships. Hard to imagine any lover of alternate British empires not being thoroughly amazed and entertained ? K.W. Jeter

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Michael Moorcock is one of the most important and influential figures in speculative fiction and fantasy literature. Listed recently by The Times (London) as among the fifty greatest British writers since 1945, he is the author of 100 books and more than 150 shorter stories in practically every genre. He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards, including the Prix Utopiales, the SFWA Grand Master, the Stoker, and the World Fantasy, and has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Award. He has been compared to Balzac, Dickens, Dumas, Ian Fleming, Joyce, and Robert E. Howard, to name a few. Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century (he created and maintains BLAKIANA: The Sexton Blake Resource). Mark was born in the UK. He has worked as a commercial radio scriptwriter, a freelance copywriter, and as a web content producer for the BBC. Since 2009, he has lived in Valencia, Spain, where he writes full-time.

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