7 /10 1 Votes
Country United States Genre Adventure, Mystery Pages 208 Editor Philip José Farmer | 3.5/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Novel Originally published 1974 Page count 208 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISBN 0-915230-06-2 (first edition) Similar Philip José Farmer books, Agriculturist books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wold newton day 12 13 2015 the adventure of the peerless peer by philip jos farmer
The Adventure of the Peerless Peer is a 1974 adventure pastiche novel written by Philip Jose Farmer, writing as Dr. John H. Watson, about the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Tarzan. This was one of several works Farmer wrote that involved Tarzan.
Contents
Plot
The story is presented as a lost manuscript of Watson's, edited by Farmer. On orders from his older brother Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to Africa and form an alliance with the titular peer, Lord Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan to hunt down the nefarious Von Bork (from His Last Bow) and stop his deadly new weapon.
Reissues
Due to copyright issues, it was rewritten as "The Adventure of the Three Madmen"—with Mowgli from The Jungle Book replacing Tarzan—in The Grand Adventure collection (1984). It was reissued by Titan Books in 2011 (ISBN 0-857-68120-6) as part of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. It has the abbreviated title of The Peerless Peer.