A very funny Sherlock Holmes pastiche. From the foreword: «Consider this scene. Von Wau Wau, his enemy, Detective Lieutenant Strasse, myself, and the lovely Lisa Scarletin, all standing before a large painting in the room in a Hamburg police station. Von Wau Wau studies the painting while we wonder if he's right in his contention that it is not only a work of art but a map. Its canvas bears, among other things, the images of Sherlock Holmes in lederhosen, Sir Francis Bacon, a green house, a mirror, Christ coming from the tomb, Tarzan, a waistcoat, the Wizard of Oz in a balloon, an ancient king of Babylon with a dietary problem, and a banana tree. But let me begin at the beginning.»
A very funny Sherlock Holmes pastiche. From the foreword: «Consider this scene. Von Wau Wau, his enemy, Detective Lieutenant Strasse, myself, and the lovely Lisa Scarletin, all…