The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont

<p><b>Holmes meets Poirot with a touch of Clouseau!</b><br>Eugene Valmont, is a French master detective who eventually retires from his government role and sets up a private practice in London. This collection showcases Valmont, a brilliantly ironic parody of Sherlock Holmes and the stories featuring him combine a playful humour with mystery and quasi-Gothic thrills and romantic adventure. <br>From the hilarious satire on the sensational fiction in <i>The Siamese Twin of a Bomb-Thrower</i> to the bizarre melodrama of <i>The Ghost with the Club-Foot</i>, Barr's stories are a delight. <br>This yellowback edition also includes as bonus material two parodies of Sherlock Holmes that Barr wrote.</p>