‘The Affair Of The Bassin Les Hivers’

Sexton Blake was “perhaps the world’s longest-running detective hero [with] One of Blake’s greatest adversaries [being Monsieur] Zenith the Albino”. ‘The Affair Of The Bassin Les Hivers’ features Zenith, and mentions Blake, as well as (in homage to Blake) the metatemporal detective Seaton Begg, thus cross-linking the story with those of various other members and generations of the Family von Bek and their curious relationships with both Lucifer and the Holy Grail.

First appearance: Tales Of The Shadowmen Volume 3: Danse Macabre
Encino, CA: Black Coat, 2007 (January) trade-sized paperback;
edited by Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier;
original price:  $22·95;
294 pages;

I.S.B.N.:  978-1-932983-77-7
(1-932983-77-5 on copyright page);
cover artist: Daylon.

‘The Affair Of The Bassin Les Hivers’: pp. 155–169.

First British appearance: Interzone No. 211
Ely:  TTA Press
magazine, July/August 2007;
edited by Andrew Hedgecock, Liz Williams, Jetse de Vries, David Mathew & Andy Cox;
price:  £3·75;
64 pages;

I.S.S.N.:0264-3596;
cover artist: Richard Marchand.

‘The Affair Of The Bassin Les Hivers’ (illustrated by Robert Dunn): pp. 19–25.

First collected appearance: The Metatemporal Detective
Amherst, N.Y.: Pyr hardcover (q.v.), 2007 (October);
edited by Linda Moorcock (credited on copyright page);
original price:  $25·00;
327 pages;
I.S.B.N.:  978-1-59102-596-2;
cover artist:  John Picacio.

pp. 259–280: as ‘The Affair Of Le Bassin Des Hivers’.

Other appearance: Michael Moorcock’s Legends Of The Multiverse
Encino, CA: Black Coat, 2017 (April) trade-sized paperback;
edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier;
original price:  $29·95;
375 pages;

I.S.B.N.:  978-1-61227-272-6;

cover artist: Michel Borderie.

pp. 25–46: as ‘The Affair Of The Bassin Des Hivers’.

Foreign (i.e. non-English language) appearances:-

In Les Compagnons De L’Ombre (Tome 2), France (2008); Utopiales 14, France (2014).