Moorcock, Michael Metatemporal detective 9781591025962

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Автор: Moorcock, Michael
Название: Metatemporal detective
Перевод названия: Детектив во времени
ISBN: 9781591025962
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Научно-фантастическая художественная литература

ISBN-10: 1591025966
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 327
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 01.10.2007
Язык: English
Размер: 23.06 x 16.31 x 2.59 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Seaton Begg and his constant companion, pathologist Dr Taffy Sinclair, both head the secret British Home Office section of the Metatemporal Investigation Department -- an organization whose function is understood only by the most high-ranking government people around the world -- and a number of powerful criminals.

Beggs cases cover a multitude of crimes in dozens of alternate worlds, generally where transport is run by electricity, where the internal combustion engine is unknown, and where giant airships are the chief form of international carrier. He investigates the murder of English Prime Minister Lady Ratchet, the kidnaping of the king of a country taken over by a totalitarian regime, and the death of Geli Raubel, Adolf Hitlers mistress. Other adventures take him to a wild west where the Masked Buckaroo is tracking down a mysterious red-eyed Apache known as the White Wolf; to 1960s Chicago where a girl has been killed in a sordid disco; and to an independent state of Texas controlled by neocon Christians with oily (and bloody) hands. He visits Paris, where he links up with his French colleagues of the S ret du Temps Perdu. In several cases the fanatical Adolf Hitler is his opponent, but his arch-enemy is the mysterious black sword wielding aristocrat known as Zenith the Albino, a drug-dependent, charismatic exile from a distant realm he once ruled.

In each story the Metatemporal Detectives cases take them to worlds at once like and unlike our own, sometimes at odds with and sometimes in league with the beautiful adventuresses Mrs. Una Persson or Lady Rosie von Bek. At last Begg and Sinclair come face to face with their nemesis on the moonbeam roads which cross between the universes, where the great Eternal Balance itself is threatened with destruction and from which only the luckiest and most daring of metatemporal adventurers will return.

These fast-paced mysteries pay homage to Moorcocks many literary enthusiasms for authors as diverse as Clarence E. Mulford, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, and his boyhood hero, Sexton Blake.

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