Michael Kurland

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1977
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Alexander Brass

1 - Too Soon Dead (Mar-1997)
2 - The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes (Jun-1998)

A Blake & Welker Thriller

1 - The Bells of Hell (Dec-2019)

A Professor Moriarty Novel

1 - The Infernal Device (Jan-1979)
2 - Death by Gaslight (Dec-1982)
3 - The Great Game (Aug-2001)
4 - The Empress of India (Feb-2006)
5 - Who Thinks Evil (Feb-2014)

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (Nov-2004)
Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (Feb-2010)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Ten Years to Doomsday

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    "Daniel Godfrey has been sentenced to be transported to a prison planet for a crime he didn't commit--but something goes wrong with the transmatter device, and Daniel and his companions are thrust onto an alien world whose people are more human than ...

  • Princes of Earth

    Not permitted to graduate from high school on his home planet of Jasper, Adam Warrington enters the University of Sol, on Mars, and finds himself embroiled in adventures with one of the Princes of Earth, an heir to the Emperor...

  • The Infernal Device

    A Professor Moriarty Novel - 1

    SCOTLAND YARD WAS HELPLESS. SHERLOCK HOLMES WAS HOPELESS. AND JUST ONE MAN COULD SAVE THE QUEEN, THE EMPIRE, THE WORLD. Who was the single figure who alone could foil the most cunning plot ever to threaten civilization with unspeakable horror? ...

  • Pluribus

  • Death by Gaslight

    A Professor Moriarty Novel - 2

    BLUE BLOOD WAS FLOODING LONDON WITH HORROR A killer who made Jack the Ripper seem gentle was slitting the throats of the cream of England's aristocracy. Naturally Scotland Yard launched total war against this monster, enlisting the great Sherlock ...

  • Star Griffin

  • The Perchance Chronicles

  • A Study in Sorcery

    In an alternate history in which the Plantagenets still rule in England, France, and the New World, and where the science of magic has displaced the magic of science, Lord Darcy is the official representative of King John IV to investigate murders an...



  • Button Bright

    WHEN BUTTON GRAMM WAS TWO YEARS OLD she went far away from the nasty place, and she lived in a nice house with her mommy and daddy, and nobody bothered her for years and years. WHEN BUTTON WAS ELEVEN she was hiding under the house when the two s...

  • Too Soon Dead

    Alexander Brass - 1

    Follow the adventures of a famed newspaper columnist through 1930s New York City in this first installment of a witty and atmospheric historical mystery series.   Columnist extraordinary Alexander Brass needs a story -- but will his latest end i...

  • The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes

    Alexander Brass - 2

    Fine and Dandy chorine Lydia Laurent’s strangled, nude body, accompanied by two complete suits of clothing, has been found in Central Park, and now Two-Headed Mary and Billie Trask are missing too. Since the police are as helpless as they always ar...

  • The Great Game

    A Professor Moriarty Novel - 3

    Labeled the "Napoleon of Crime" by an obsessed Sherlock Holmes, Professor James Moriarty is a prominent scientist, a keen analytical mind, and a dabbler in less than savory doings. Two friends and former associates of Moriarty - Benjamin Barnett and ...

  • The Unicorn Girl

    Michael Kurland's 'The Unicorn Girl' is a novel about a magical world, half-mystical, half-historic, half-imaginary. Three halves, you ask, isn't that impossible? Of course it it. That's why it's magical. It is a lost world, t...

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years

    Sherlock Holmes

    In 1891, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with his arch-enemy, the Napoleon of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, plunged with him over the Reichenbach Falls to his inevitable death. All of England - indeed the entire world - mourned the irreplaceable los...

  • The Empress of India

    A Professor Moriarty Novel - 4

    In the late Victorian days, a large amount of gold is arriving unannounced on the cargo ship The Empress of India. Yet the impossible happens--the shipment of gold disappears en route. Sherlock Holmes, brought in by Her Majesty's Government, knows th...

  • Sherlock Holmes: The American Years

    Sherlock Holmes

    A compelling volume of original tales concerning Sherlock Holmes' legendary time in America With an introduction by Leslie S. Klinger, editor and compiler of all three volumes of the Annotated Sherlock Holmes, this collection of ten original stori...

  • The Tank War Mission

    How many men from W.A.R. does it take to stop 2000 raging desert warriors, fifty top of the line Soviet tanks, and untold numbers of drug-crazed assassini? Six, plus one beautiful, plucky young British woman determined to rescue a kidnapped brother. ...

  • Ten Little Wizards

    Lord Darcy and Master Wizard Sean O Lauchlainn return in this authorized sequel to the stories of Randall Garrett. In 1988, in an alternate universe in which the Plantagenets still rule Britain, France, and the New World, and where magic has displace...



  • The Trials of Quintilian

    In ancient Rome, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a real barrister, honoured for being a teacher, rhetorician, jurist and a crime solver. In these three stories, Quintilian, a character who is based on this early detective, chronicles some of the emine...

  • Victorian Villainy

    In the tradition of the old Ace Double two-in-one books (flip one book over to read the other), here's the seventh Wildside Mystery Double: VICTORIAN VILLAINY: A Collection of Moriarty Stories, by Michael Kurland. Among the world's great fictional vi...

  • Perchance

    When the young apprentice Delbit Quint is "bought" by Dr. Faineworth, he arrives in an alternate history version of New York City to help the good doctor with his investigation of "Exxa." This beautiful young woman had just appeared from nowhere, wit...

  • THE PLAGUE OF SPIES MISSION

    First there was a bevy of beautiful dancing girls - then a mysterious cult of mad monks. A brilliant combine of international assassins had gathered on the sunny shores of Alba. Interpol knew that they weren't there for fun and games--but they had no...

  • It's a Mystery to Me

    It's a Mystery to Me is a book every fledgling writer of crime stories should read and study. It's packed with the kind of practical advice, incisively and wittily presented, that only a seasoned professional can provide. Kudos to Michael Kurland for...

  • Who Thinks Evil

    A Professor Moriarty Novel - 5

    In London, 1892, a well-guarded young nobleman goes missing under distressing circumstances. The nobleman, one Baron Renfrew, is actually Prince Albert Victor, eldest grandson of Queen Victoria. He disappeared while he was visiting a house of ill rep...

  • The Legend of How the Peach Twins Saved Breakfast

    The majority of the author’s proceeds will be donated to the PBS Foundation to support education and children’s programming.

    The Legend of How The Peach Twins Saved Breakfast is a thrilling new adventure storybook for children, taking r...

  • The Whenabouts of Burr

    Someone has taken the original document of the U.S. Constitution and substituted another. The substitute is identical, just as old, and equally authentic -- except it has been signed by Aaron Burr! It contradicts history, but it is real and there for...

  • A Plague of Spies

    A group of international spies has assembled in the small nation of Alba. Interpol guesses that they aren't there for their holidays - but has no clue as to the real plans being set in motion. Peter Carthage, WAR, Inc.'s slickest agent, is sent to in...

  • The Bells of Hell

    A Blake & Welker Thriller - 1

    Counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker recruits a number of civilians to help foil a suspected terrorist attack by German spies in New York in 1938. March, 1938 Otto Lehman arrives in New York on the S.S. Osthafen to be immediately confronted by ...



  • Mission Tank War

    A small, oil-rich Arab nation is about to lose its status as a British protector­ate. A superior enemy force lurks in the wings, waiting to invade, led by Soviet tanks. How many men from War, Inc. (a company with an ultra-scientific approach to ...

  • Whatever the Cost

    Counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker is on a special mission to find a group of scientists who could change the course of World War II in this smartly written historical espionage thriller. September 1939. Germany has declared war on Poland, an...

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Michael Kurland has published 31 books.

Michael Kurland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Whatever the Cost, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Michael Kurland, Ten Years to Doomsday, was published in December 1977.

Yes. Michael Kurland has 4 series.
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