Back to Reichenbach!

Horror, crime, and the supernatural in one novel -- The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls is a plain black book featuring a black and gray cartoon representation of two men falling over a cliff into the depths of a wide waterfall. This is the very falls over which Professor Moriarity and Sherlock Holmes fought to their supposed deaths in what Arthur Conan Doyle expected to be his last Holmes episode.

Yet, both men lived to pursue the hunt for one another to a new ending.

In this round, RPG designer J. Robert King fills another of his 20+ novels with a rollicking good tale. He brings back Hodges's protagonist, Thomas Carnacki, the Ghost Hunter. King places Carnacki at he start of his career, drifting through Switzerland in search of a living. Rather than that, Thomas meets Ann Moriarity, genius daughter of Professor James Moriarity, an amnesic Sherlock Holmes drenched in a river, Dr. John H. Watson in search of Moriarity's assorted henchmen, another House, MD, living skeletons, and red mists that also seem alive - with evil. Jack the Ripper is another important celebrity in this book, along with a Paris Ripper. Curiously, the real Moriarity is a sympathetic character until Jack the Ripper stalks his beautiful genius wife. He even has an endearing sense of humor.

J. Robert King has enjoyed crime and tales of the supernatural in Hodges' work and added Carnacki and buckets of mysterious blood with Holmes after his supposed death. Eventually, Sherlock wanders across the globe until he is ready to take up residence once again on Baker Street; and Carnacki might be going with him. We hope for many sequels.

This book's Carnacki is a sharp mind, as well as a strong adversary in the newspapers, taunting various Rippers with goading articles and reports. Any fan of mysteries and horror, especially Late Victorian Era works, is in for a treat at Reichenbach Falls.

A full review: The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls

I follow author J. Robert King and his writing group on Twitter and you can also:

On Twitter: @jrobertking

Web Site: http://www.jrobertking.com
A very well-crafted website - you'll find a the RPG and novel works of Mr. King and the Twitter addresses for all his companies and writing groups. Brilliant!

SUMMER LITERARY CELEBRATION

Summer 2010


50th Anniversary: To Kill A Mockingbird

People who differ from the center of a misapplied Bell Curve are the mockingbirds for Haper Lee in her monumental pulitzer prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird, celebrating its 50th Anniversary all summer in 2010:

Mockingbirds: people with mental health issues, geniuses, feminists, a black man in the Depression Era South.  In the book, the mockingbird is also the bystander mentality, not wanting to rock the boat. The group repeated the chant of the larger community for safety’s sake. Status quo, mediocrity…

People that mind their own business and do no harm are attacked in America by people that don’t have enough to do. These are the innocents like the book’s characters Arthur (Boo) Radley and Tom Robinson.

Click the link to find out more about the Summer 2010 theatrical performances and celebrity readings of To Kill A Mockingbird.

World Cup FIFA 2010 Good Eats

South Africa is twice the six of Texasand offers soccer venues for the FIFA 2010 World Cup in 9 venerable cities that include Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban. The event is 30 days long and bigger than the Olympics. Controversy in the use of blast horns and advertisers' colors add even more excitement and fun to the venues. South Africa will never forget the 2010 World Cup.

World Cup FIFA 2010 Good Eats

South Africa is also well known for recipes shared with us by friends and colleagues. Below are recipes that have been shared from South Africa since the 1960s. A bit about food from South Africa's nearest neighbor, Botswana, follows, along with some information about the FIFA World Cup 2010. Enjoy all of it, please.