Author: HEARD, H. F. (HENRY FITZGERALD HEARD)
Title: A Taste for Honey
Description: New York, NY: Avon Book Company, 1946. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. Avon book number 108, without a price on the book covers. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing, and there is some spots of ground-in dirt to the rear cover of the book. The text pages are generally clean, but there is noticeable generalized toning throughout. "Heard wrote fiction under the name H. F. Heard. This included three detective novels about Mr. Mycroft (implied to be Sherlock Holmes after his retirement). Mr. Mycroft and his friend, Mr. Silchester, appeared in three novels: A Taste for Honey, 1941 (televised in 1955 as Sting of Death and filmed, as The Deadly Bees, 1967) ; Reply Paid; and The Notched Hairpin. The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales and The Lost Cavern and Other Tales of the Fantastic are collections of stories that include both science fiction and ghost stories. Hugh Lamb has described The Great Fog and The Lost Cavern as "two splendid books of short stories". The Black Fox is an occult thriller featuring black magic. Doppelgangers is a dystopian novel, influenced by Huxley's Brave New World, set after the "Psychological Revolution." Anthony Boucher described Doppelgangers as "in style and imagination, the most exciting and provocative piece of science fiction since the heyday of M. P. Shiel." (from Wikipedia. Very Good .

Keywords: Mystery H. F. Heard Mycroft Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes Pastiche


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