The Metatemporal Detective

The Metatemporal Detective

Dust-jacket from the first edition.
Author	Michael Moorcock
Cover artist	John Picacio
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Pyr
Publication date	2007
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	327
ISBN
OCLC	154711419
Dewey Decimal	823/.914 22
LC Class	PR6063.O59 M47 2007

The Metatemporal Detective is a collection of short fiction by British fantasy and literary writer Michael Moorcock [1].

The stories chart the adventures of the Holmesian detective Sir Seaton Begg, his trusty sidekick Dr. Taffy Sinclair and his complex relationship with his cousin, nemesis, and occasional ally, Monsieur Zenith. The stories are set in an eclectic range of times and places and were written over the course of Moorcock's long career. The book features characters from the Moorcock 'multiverse' including the ubiquitous Una Persson. Begg owes much to the character of Sexton Blake, Publishers Weekly termed the stories rather too 'broad' in their parody of established detective tropes [2]. The stories were not, according to Moorcock, designed as literary parody.

Begg makes other appearances in Moorcock's work, most recently in Zenith Lives! and The Immortal Seaton Begg, both from Obverse Books.

Contents

• "The Affair of the Seven Virgins"
• "Crimson Eyes"
• "The Ghost Warriors"
• "The Girl Who Killed Sylvia Blade"
• "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
• "Sir Milk-and-Blood"
• "The Mystery of the Texas Twister"
• "London Flesh"
• "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius"
• "The Affair of Le Bassin des Hivers"
• "The Flaneur des Arcades de l'Opera"