The Man from the Diogenes Club

Kim Newman

MonkeyBrain Books, 2006 - Fiction - 389 pages

Introducing Richard Jeperson ... in the 1970s the most valued member of a venerable institution, the Diogenes Club - least publicized of Britain's law enforcement and intelligence agencies. His cases involve haunted trains and seaside resorts, murders in utopian communities and London's vice district, voodoo and mind-altering therapies; his fashion sense is gaudy, his enemies deadly, and his associates glamorous.

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Review: The Man from the Diogenes Club

User Review  - Morgan - Goodreads

Oh Kim Newman, by all rights you should be too clever for your own good. He's fully embraced camp and genre tropes. He loves meta references. And for the most part he's just so over the top that ...

Review: The Man from the Diogenes Club

User Review  - Amanda - Goodreads

Line by line, this is a set of very well-written stories. The Seventies get neatly skewered here, but I wish that Newman had also subverted the horror trophe of the damsel-in-distress. An enjoyable read nevertheless.

About the author

Kim Newman is a novelist, critic and broadcaster. His fiction has been translated into many languages and he is a past recipient of, among others, the Horror Writers of America Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Critics' Guild Award for Best Novel. He is also the editor of "The BFI Companion to Horror.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Man from the Diogenes Club
• Author: Kim Newman
• Publisher: MonkeyBrain Books, 2006
• ISBN: 1932265171, 9781932265170
• Length: 389 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General