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Michael Kurland

(Michael Joseph Kurland)

(b.1938)

aka Jennifer Plum

Michael Kurland has written many non-fiction books on a vast array of topics, including How to Solve a Murder, as well as many novels. Twice a finalist for the Edgar Award (once for The Infernal Device) given by the Mystery Writers of America, Kurland is perhaps best known for his novels about Professor Moriarty. He lives in Petaluma, California.

Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Historical Mystery, Science Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy

Series

Mission
   1. Third Force (1967)
   2. Tank War (1968)
   A Plague of Spies (1969)
   3. Police Action (1969)

Professor Moriarty
   1. The Infernal Device (1979)
   2. Death by Gaslight (1982)
   3. The Great Game (2001)
   4. The Empress of India (2006)
   5. Who Thinks Evil (2014)

Lord Darcy
continued from the original series by Randall Garrett
1. Ten Little Wizards (1988)
2. A Study in Sorcery (1989)

Chronicles of Elsewhen
1. Perchance (1989)

Alexander Brass
1. Too Soon Dead (1997)
2. The Girls in the High-Heeled Shoes (1998)

Welker & Saboy
1. The Bells of Hell (2019)
2. Whatever the Cost (2021)

WAR, Inc.
   1. Mission: Third Force (2020)
   2. Mission: Tank War (2021)
   3. A Plague of Spies 3 (2023)

Novels

   Ten Years to Doomsday (1964) (with Chester Anderson)
   Transmission Error (1970)
   The Secret of Benjamin Square (1972) (as by Jennifer Plum)
   The Whenabouts of Burr (1975)
   Pluribus (1975)
   Tomorrow Knight (1976)
   The Princes of Earth (1978)
   Psi Hunt (1980)
   The Last President (1980) (with S W Barton)
   First Cycle (1982) (with H Beam Piper)
   Star Griffin (1987)
   Button Bright (1990)

Collections

   The Infernal Device and Others (2001)
   Victorian Villainy (2011)
   The Trials of Quintilian (2011)
   Small World (2019)

Anthologies edited

   My Sherlock Holmes (2003)
   Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (2004)
   Sherlock Holmes: The American Years (2010)

Series contributed to

Greenwich Village Trilogy
2. The Unicorn Girl (1969)

Non fiction show

Omnibus editions show

Books containing stories by Michael Kurland

The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Part I (2015)
(MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories, book 1)
edited by
David Marcum

The Mammoth Book of Dark Magic (2013)
(The Mammoth Book of ...)
edited by
Mike Ashley

Unidentified Funny Objects (2012)
(Unidentified Funny Objects, book 1)
edited by
Alex Shvartsman

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Award nominations

	1980 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : The Infernal Device
	1970 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : A Plague of Spies

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