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The Adventure of the Peerless Peer

Genre	Fantasy
Type	Novel (novella)
Series	Wold Newton Universe

As by John H. Watson, M.D., edited by Philip José Farmer.
Actually completely written by Farmer, John H. Watson is used as a pseudonym. Later rewritten and retitled as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen", but finally in 2008, with permission of the Burroughs estate, again published with the original text and title.
Also published with the title: The Peerless Peer.
Win Scott Eckert wrote a sequel, The Adventure of the Fallen Stone by John H. Watson M.D.
DEDICATION: "Dedicated to Samuel Rosenberg, who has embroidered for the world the greatest Doylie ever."

COVER TEXT:
The "Peerless Peer" of the title is none other than Lord Greystoke, the jungle-born scion of a noble English family, a duke in Britain but in his larger estate of Central Africa a king. The time is 1916, at the height of the Great War. The east wind has grown appallingly cold in England, and when the Foreign Office learns that a deadly formula has been stolen from the Allies by Sherlock Holmes' old foe, the German agent Von Bork, Mycroft calls his younger brother out of retirement to save the Empire from the greatest danger that ever threatened it. Watson, of course, accompanies Holmes on this perilous mission, and his account of their adventure is one of the most thrilling narratives the good doctor ever penned.
(Aspen Press)

15 Publications

Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	FIRST PUBLICATION Boulder, CO: Aspen Press - no ISBN hardcover (20×13cm) 11/1974 viii + 111 $ 5.50 uncredited [= Alan Verner] Red cloth boards with golden gilt lettering on the spine. 'First Edition' stated on the copyright page. With a Foreword by Philip José Farmer.	Alan Verner

Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Cover art Notes	New York, NY: Dell #0042 SBN 440-00042-125 paperback (18×11cm) 09/1976 09/1976 [Canadian edition] 128 $ 1.25 Victor Gadino With a Foreword and Editor's Comments by Philip José Farmer. The Canadian edition has exactly the same data as the US edition, it only states 'Printed in Canada' on the copyright page.	Victor Gadino

Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Cover art Notes	In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others Christopher Paul Carey Burton, MI: Subterranean Press - ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2 hardcover (23,5×16cm) 01/2008 [Trade edition] 03/2008 [Numbered, signed, slipcased edition.] 325 $ 38.00 \| $ 125.00 Bob Eggleton With an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and with the original Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer.	Bob Eggleton

Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	In Venus on the Half-Shell and Others Christopher Paul Carey Burton, MI: Subterranean Press - ISBN 978-1-59606-142-2 hardcover (23,5×16cm) 10/2008 [Lettered, signed, traycased edition.] 340 $ 300.00 Bob Eggleton With an introduction by Christopher Paul Carey, and with the original Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer.	Bob Eggleton

Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	The Peerless Peer London: Titan Books The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ISBN 978-0-85768-120-1 trade paperback (20,5×13,5cm) 06/2011 139 [+ 69 unnumbered pages] £ 7.99 [US: $ 9.95] uncredited [top right corner by Clinton Pettee] With a Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer, and an Afterword by Win Scott Eckert. On the unnumbered pages are many ads and an excerpt of an upcoming novel, by Kim Newman, in this series. On the back cover stated "A Wold Newton Universe Novel".	Clinton Pettee (part)

Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Cover art Notes	The Peerless Peer London: Titan Books The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ISBN 978-0-85768-540-7 ebook 06/2011 (138) £ 5.73 uncredited With a Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer, and an Afterword by Win Scott Eckert.	Clinton Pettee (part)

FRANCE

	Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	French: Le saigneur de la jungle Grenoble: Jaques Glénat Marginalia 3 ISBN 2-7234-0019-0 trade paperback (20×11cm) 11/1975 107 not priced Michael Breitner & François Rivière Marcel Gotlib With a Foreword by Farmer.	Marcel Gotlib

GERMANY

Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	German: Sherlock Holmes und die Legende von Greystoke Stolberg: Atlantis - ISBN 978-3-86402-066-7 trade paperback (21×15cm) 07/2013 132 € 10,00 Ben Sonntag Mark Freier With a Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer. Also a special Foreword, "Der Napoleon des Crossovers", to the German edition by Christian Endres and an Afterword by Win Scott Eckert.	Mark Freier

Title Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	German: Sherlock Holmes und die Legende von Greystoke Stolberg: Atlantis - ISBN 978-3-86402-103-9 hardcover [no dustjacket] (21,5×15,5cm) 07/2013 132 € 13,00 Ben Sonntag Mark Freier Pictorial boards. With a Foreword and Editor's Comments by Farmer. Also a special Foreword, "Der Napoleon des Crossovers", to the German edition by Christian Endres and an Afterword by Win Scott Eckert.	Mark Freier

IRAN

	Title Latin Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Persian: شرلوک هولمز و نجیب زاده ی بی همتا Shrlwk Hwlmz w njyb zadh y by hmta Teheran: قطره (Drop) ادبیات پلیسی15 (Police literature 15) ISBN 978-622-201-009-6 paperback (..×..cm) 12/2018 114 IRR 140,000 Farideddin Soleimani unknown The title translates like: Sherlock Holmes and the Unmatched Gentleman. Book published in the Iran year 1397. As author is given John H. Watson (جان اچ.واتسون).	-

JAPAN

	Title Latin Magazine Latin Edited by Publisher Series+no. Format Date Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Japanese: シャーロック・ホームズ、アフリカの大冒険 Shārokku hōmuzu, Afurika no dai bōken in 奇想天外 in Kisō Tengai Sone Tadashi Minoru Tokyo: Kisō Tengaisha (Bizarre, Inc.) No. 3 - Slapstick SF Daizenshu magazine (21×15cm) 08/1977 292 ¥ 1000 Kuroma Hisashi Nara Kihachi With seven illustrations by Nara Kihachi.	Nara Kihachi

SPAiN

	Title Collection Edited by Publisher Series+no. Bookno. Format Dates Pages Price Translation Cover art Notes	Spanish: "La aventura del par simpar" in El otro canon de Sherlock Holmes Javier Jiménez Barco Madrid: Los Libros de Barsoom Zona Criminal #6 ISBN 978-6-99-001903-1 trade paperback (20,5×14,5cm) 02/2015 12/2017 (2nd, revised) 452 € 20,00 Javier Jiménez Barco Jim Steranko The 2nd printing is a revised version, correcting some misprints. Illustrated by Frederick Dorr Steele.	Jim Steranko

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