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Michael Joseph Kurland (born 1938) is an American author, best known for his works of (in chronological order) science fiction and detective fiction.

Kurland's early career was devoted to works of science fiction. His first published novel was Ten Years to Doomsday (written with Chester Anderson) in 1964. Other notable works include Tomorrow Knight, Pluribus, Perchance, and The Unicorn Girl. The Unicorn Girl was the middle volume of the Greenwich Village Trilogy by three different authors, the other two being Chester Anderson and T.A. Waters. (Anderson's book, The Butterfly Kid, was nominated for a Hugo Award).Kurland has also written two novels, Ten Little Wizards and A Study in Sorcery, set in the world of Randall Garrett's Lord Darcy, prefiguring his later success as a mystery writer.

Following the success of The Infernal Device, which was nominated for an Edgar Award (as was his earlier A Plague of Spies), Kurland turned his attention to detective fiction. Several of his subsequent novels have been sequels to The Infernal Device, and feature Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty. In this series, Professor Moriarty is an antihero (and sometimes a real hero) who resignedly tolerates Holmes's obsessively exaggerated opinion of his criminal empire, and is often brought into reluctant alliance with his nemesis in order to counter menaces ranging from threats to their associates to threats to the nation.

He has edited three themed anthologies of Sherlock Holmes short stories, My Sherlock Holmes (stories narrated by characters other than Watson or Holmes), Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years (stories set during the period in which Holmes was supposed to be dead) and Sherlock Holmes: the American Years (stories set in the time between Holmes' graduation from university and his meeting Dr. Watson).

He is also the author of numerous non-fiction works, including How to Solve a Murder: the Forensic Handbook and How to Try a Murder: the Handbook for Armchair Lawyers.

Michael Kurland lives in Petaluma, California.

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Total Books: 64
The Bells of Hell
The Bells of Hell [A Welker & Saboy thriller, 1] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780727889690
ISBN-10: 0727889699
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Button Bright
Button Bright (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780515102956
ISBN-10: 0515102954
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Horror
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Complete Idiot's Guide to Extraterrestrial Intelligence [The Complete Idiot's Guide] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780028623870
ISBN-10: 0028623878
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Science & Math
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Memory
Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries
Complete Idiot's Guide to Unsolved Mysteries (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780028638430
ISBN-10: 0028638433
Genres: Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 1

Death by Gaslight A Professor Moriarty Novel
Death By Gaslight a Professor Moriarty Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781783293285
ISBN-10: 1783293284
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Death by Gaslight
Death By Gaslight [Professor Moriarty, Bk 2] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780451119155
ISBN-10: 0451119150
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Empress of India
The Empress of India [a Professor Moriarty Novel] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781783293322
ISBN-10: 1783293322
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Galaxy Magazine August 1965 Complete FRANK HERBERT Novel
Galaxy Magazine August 1965 Complete Frank Herbert Novel [Volume 23, No. 6] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780185065087
ISBN-10: 0185065082
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
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A Gallery of Rogues Portraits in True Crime
A Gallery of Rogues Portraits in True Crime (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780671850111
ISBN-10: 0671850113
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 3

Girls In High Heeled Shoes
Girls in High Heeled Shoes [Alexander Brass Mysteries] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312181048
ISBN-10: 0312181043
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 1

The Girls in the HighHeeled Shoes
The Girls in the Highheeled Shoes [Alexander Brass, Bk 2] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781783295388
ISBN-10: 1783295384
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 1

The Great Game A Professor Moriarty Novel
The Great Game a Professor Moriarty Novel (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312305055
ISBN-10: 0312305052
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 4

The Great Game  A Professor Moriarty Novel
The Great Game a Professor Moriarty Novel (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781783293308
ISBN-10: 1783293306
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Great Game A Professor Moriarty Novel
The Great Game a Professor Moriarty Novel [Professor Moriarty Novels] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780312208912
ISBN-10: 031220891X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 2

How To Solve a Murder The Forensic Handbook
How to Solve a Murder the Forensic Handbook (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780028604107
ISBN-10: 0028604105
Genres: Nonfiction, Humor & Entertainment, Substores
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 4

How to Try a Murder The Handbook for Armchair Lawyer's
How to Try a Murder the Handbook for Armchair Lawyer's (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780028612911
ISBN-10: 0028612914
Genres: Reference, Law, Engineering & Transportation
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 2

How to Try a Murder The Handbook for Armchair Lawyers
How to Try a Murder the Handbook for Armchair Lawyers (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780785815327
ISBN-10: 0785815325
Genre: Reference
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 1

The Infernal Device and Others  A Professor Moriarty Omnibus
The Infernal Device and Others a Professor Moriarty Omnibus (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780312252731
ISBN-10: 0312252730
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 2

The Infernal Device
The Infernal Device [Professor Moriarty, Bk 1] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780450044519
ISBN-10: 0450044513
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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Irrefutable Evidence Adventures in the History of Forensic Science
Perchance [Chronicles of Elsewhen, Bk 1] (Paperback)
Star Griffin [Doubleday Science Fiction] (Hardcover)
Ten Little Wizards [Lord Darcy, Bk 4] (Paperback)
Too Soon Dead [Alexander Brass, Bk 1] (Paperback)
The Whenabouts of Burr [DAW UY1182 - DAW No, 157] (Paperback)