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Macallister Fogg #2
Great Great Great (And So Forth) Uncle Dragoslav
In the years before the incomparable Sherlock Holmes drove away the competition, and despite his arrogant claim to be the first of his kind, Baker Street was filled with consulting detectives. Among the investigators who worked out of that famous thoroughfare, none experienced such a capricious career as Mr Macallister Fogg.
To judge Fogg against Holmes would be entirely unreasonable, for the two men couldn’t be more different in character. Where Holmes was driven and precise, Fogg was a feckless dabbler, concerned more with his mechanical inventions and chemical experiments than with the solving of his clients’ problems. Undoubtedly, had he not taken on Mrs Emma Boswell as his secretary, he’d have quickly gone out of business and there’d be no record of his eccentricities or the remarkable threats he encountered and somehow nullified. It is fair to say that Fogg, on more than one occasion, saved not just his clients but the Earth itself, and certainly could not have done so without the long suffering Mrs Boswell at his side.
In the second of their recorded adventures, Fogg and Boswell confront an ages old vampire, and Fogg finds a unique way of putting the ancient threat to rest!
To judge Fogg against Holmes would be entirely unreasonable, for the two men couldn’t be more different in character. Where Holmes was driven and precise, Fogg was a feckless dabbler, concerned more with his mechanical inventions and chemical experiments than with the solving of his clients’ problems. Undoubtedly, had he not taken on Mrs Emma Boswell as his secretary, he’d have quickly gone out of business and there’d be no record of his eccentricities or the remarkable threats he encountered and somehow nullified. It is fair to say that Fogg, on more than one occasion, saved not just his clients but the Earth itself, and certainly could not have done so without the long suffering Mrs Boswell at his side.
In the second of their recorded adventures, Fogg and Boswell confront an ages old vampire, and Fogg finds a unique way of putting the ancient threat to rest!
45 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 5, 2013
About the author
Mark Hodder
70 books507 followersBritish author living in Valencia, Spain.
Burton & Swinburne Novels:
THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING-HEELED JACK (Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award 2010)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN
EXPEDITION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
THE SECRET OF ABDU EL YEZDI
THE RETURN OF THE DISCONTINUED MAN
THE RISE OF THE AUTOMATED ARISTOCRATS
Other Novels:
A RED SUN ALSO RISES
THE SILENT THUNDER CAPER
A DARK AND SUBTLE LIGHT
Novels in Collaboration with Michael Moorcock:
CARIBBEAN CRISIS/VOODOO ISLAND
THE ALBINO'S SECRET (forthcoming)
THE ALBINO'S HONOUR (forthcoming)
THE ALBINO'S EYE (forthcoming)
As Editor:
SEXTON BLAKE AND THE GREAT WAR
SEXTON BLAKE VERSUS THE MASTER CROOKS
SEXTON BLAKE'S ALLIES
SEXTON BLAKE ON THE HOME FRONT
SEXTON BLAKE'S NEW ORDER
Burton & Swinburne Novels:
THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING-HEELED JACK (Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award 2010)
THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN
EXPEDITION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
THE SECRET OF ABDU EL YEZDI
THE RETURN OF THE DISCONTINUED MAN
THE RISE OF THE AUTOMATED ARISTOCRATS
Other Novels:
A RED SUN ALSO RISES
THE SILENT THUNDER CAPER
A DARK AND SUBTLE LIGHT
Novels in Collaboration with Michael Moorcock:
CARIBBEAN CRISIS/VOODOO ISLAND
THE ALBINO'S SECRET (forthcoming)
THE ALBINO'S HONOUR (forthcoming)
THE ALBINO'S EYE (forthcoming)
As Editor:
SEXTON BLAKE AND THE GREAT WAR
SEXTON BLAKE VERSUS THE MASTER CROOKS
SEXTON BLAKE'S ALLIES
SEXTON BLAKE ON THE HOME FRONT
SEXTON BLAKE'S NEW ORDER
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November 22, 2022
As well a entertaining, a really interesting take on vampires. And it's been a long time since I've said that.
March 11, 2015
3.5 stars
Consulting detective Macallister Fogg and his long-suffering secretary Mrs. Emma Boswell are back and better than ever in their second adventure. At least, Fogg is better. Because when Lady Hufferton arrives on his doorstep with an unusual request—assassinate her great-great-great-great-great-uncle Dragoslav, an immortal vampire—the previously bumbling Fogg more than rises to the occasion. In fact, he’s suddenly so capable that Mrs. Boswell winds up having absolutely nothing to do with the case’s conclusion. Which wouldn’t be so bad (everyone is due a win sometime, right?) except Mrs. Boswell has inexplicably turned into a screeching harpy, hurling insult after insult at her employer: “lazy”, “impractical”, “impossible”, “idiotic”, and “stark raving mad”, to name just a few. Honestly, you end up feeling quite badly for poor, old Fogg, especially given his newfound competency.
Still, the story of Fogg v. Uncle Dragoslav is quite fun (more fun, I think, than Fogg v. the mummy), and I do love Hodder’s penny dreadful-inspired genre-mixing. I just hope Mrs. Boswell is a bit less tetchy in the future. Sheesh!
Consulting detective Macallister Fogg and his long-suffering secretary Mrs. Emma Boswell are back and better than ever in their second adventure. At least, Fogg is better. Because when Lady Hufferton arrives on his doorstep with an unusual request—assassinate her great-great-great-great-great-uncle Dragoslav, an immortal vampire—the previously bumbling Fogg more than rises to the occasion. In fact, he’s suddenly so capable that Mrs. Boswell winds up having absolutely nothing to do with the case’s conclusion. Which wouldn’t be so bad (everyone is due a win sometime, right?) except Mrs. Boswell has inexplicably turned into a screeching harpy, hurling insult after insult at her employer: “lazy”, “impractical”, “impossible”, “idiotic”, and “stark raving mad”, to name just a few. Honestly, you end up feeling quite badly for poor, old Fogg, especially given his newfound competency.
Still, the story of Fogg v. Uncle Dragoslav is quite fun (more fun, I think, than Fogg v. the mummy), and I do love Hodder’s penny dreadful-inspired genre-mixing. I just hope Mrs. Boswell is a bit less tetchy in the future. Sheesh!
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