The Albino’s Secret
New York: Saga, 2025 (October 14th) trade-sized paperback;
by Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder;
sub-titled “The Metatemporal Detectives, Book I” on title page & front cover;
original price: $20·00;
399 + viii pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-6680-6780-2;
cover artist: Sarah J. Coleman.
The Albino’s Secret is a novel in homage to “perhaps the world’s longest-running detective hero, Sexton Blake [and] One of Blake’s greatest adversaries [Monsieur] Zenith the Albino”, here written in collaboration with longtime Blake scholar Mark Hodder so as to feature Seaton Begg, thus cross-linking the stories with those of various other members and generations of the Family von Bek and their curious relationships with both Lucifer and the Holy Grail. A second volume, The Albino’s Honour, is (at the time of writing) as yet unpublished, although a five-page preview appears at the end of …Secret.
Ashland, OR: Blackstone (C.D. [+ download]) audiobook, 2022 (October 14th);
original price: $39·99;
I.S.B.N.: 9781668114186 (U.S.A.);
9 C.D.s;
9781399635134 (U.K. [download only]);
narrated by Nicolas Boulton.
First British edition: London: Gollancz hardcover, 2025 (October 16th);
sub-titled “The Metatemporal Detectives” on title page & “A Metatemporal Detective Novel” on front cover;
original price: £25·00;
399 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-399-62744-3;
cover artist: Sarah J. Coleman;
no second-volume preview.
The Albino’s Secret is also available as e-books: 978-1-6680-6782-6 (U.S.A.) & 978-1-399-62746-7 (U.K.).
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