She Was Evil... Plus-1

2-retro influenced fantasies, from a female-led slant, harking back to the golden days of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century fiction after the very different styles of Sax Rohmer and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Maurice Huysman opens with "She Was Evil"; as he introduces us to an intrepid French Commissioner, recently returned from the East, and his equally fearless and resolute doctor friend.
Both teaming up against the threat to world security posed by a genius Chinese villain with dreams of world domination and his equally warped daughter. A warped and pitiless daughter the Commissioner knows far more intimately than he cares to admit. Or to remember! This is followed by Sandrine Bessancort's "A Scandal in Bohemia Revisited", and her re-imagining of a Sherlock Holmes we have not been shown before.
A man and Victorian detective of great intellect who has proved, until now, emotionally impervious to the all too human emotion of passion and is about to experience it for the very first time. And with a power altogether too much for a man unused to such... NEED. Believable retro-fantasy and misadventure in the world of female-led fiction, for those readers with a desire to have a light shone on the more.
outré .corners of their imaginations and to revel in the escapist fiction of the past.