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The Man From The Diogenes Club
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Mysteries of the Diogenes Club Paperback – December 16, 2010

by Kim Newman (Author)
From the 1860s to the present day, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm-and this entire plane of existence-from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more mysteries of the British Empire's most secret service.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Monkeybrain (December 16, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932265309
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932265309
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.08 x 0.98 x 9.11 inches

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Kim Newman is a London-based author and movie critic. With over 25 years of experience, he writes regularly for Empire Magazine and contributes to The Guardian, The Times, Sight & Sound and others. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV and has popular lines in horror. He has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo and World Fantasy Award.

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  • MooK@D00
    5.0 out of 5 stars Newman's Da Man!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025
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    Have yet to read it, but Kim Newman's one of my favorite authors and I've read so many of his books. His trilogy about the Diogenes Club is a no-brainer.
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  • Perceptive Reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another glimpse into the world of SECRET SERVICE!
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2011
    At the time of its release in 2006, "The Man from the Diogenes Club" had looked (& read) like a folder for action-packed and fun-filled 1970-s style occult detective adventures, with loads of clues & references to films, novels, contemporary politics and social commentary thrown in to further spice them up. Then came "The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club" in 2008, darkening up that colourful vista to a considerable extent. Although it had featured the "cold war" taking place between the somewhat old-fashioned (i.e. with a strong sense of good & bad) Diogenes Club and the other "agencies" in the same business but using "sharper" practices, it also had tremendously enjoyable romps like "Angel Down, Sussex", "The Big Fish" and "Richard Riddle, Boy Detective". And now we have this volume (with an extremely attractive cover) which contains the following novella-length stories:

    1. Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch: A retelling of "Tinker, Tailor, Sailor, Spy", with the (notionally) evil empire replaced by something truly evil. The story read like a gritty cold-war story of espionage, deceit, betrayal and paranoia(which had been intended, at the first place), and re-awakens ignoramus like us to the fact that Diogenes Club actually reflect the words of the good doctor ("sometimes.......is the British Government)!
    2. Kentish Glory: a brand-new offering, but again taking us to the unknown & unexplored darkness behind the rise of any hero (or heroine).
    3. Moon Moon Moon: a Richard Jeperson adventure, where our hero, accompanied by a beautiful 'agent' from "The Unnameable-s", i.e. one of the Federal Bureau of Investigations from across the Pond, tries to neutralise the threat posed by a 'truly secret' person towards the first man-made lunar landing. It had earlier seen release in the online Subterranean Magazine.
    4. Organ Donors: A "Derek Leech" story which features Sally, a tough-yet-honest detective. This story has a direct link to the next, and this volumes last offering.
    5. Seven Stars: A 'legendary' (no-pun intended) story, written for Stephen Jones' "Dark Detectives", and linking up the different phases (& personages) of Diogenes Club over a lengthy period of time.

    Yes, the last 3 stories would be in the possession of almost all Newman-lovers. But nevertheless, they are invaluable from the Diogenes Club's point of view, and HAVE to be there. But, despite earning all the 5 stars from me with its stories, delightful notes in the rear, and cover, I would like to plead the author of the book, asking for the following:
    1) "The Man In The Clapham Omnibus" should figure in the subsequent volume.
    2) Leo Dare's badventures (if heroes can have adventures, that is what the villains should have, esp. if they are of commercial type) and his comeuppance at the hand of Mycroft Holmes need to be revealed.

    With these requests, and wholehearted recommendations to every lover of pulp fiction, spy stories, Diogenes Club adventures, Wold Newton universe, Allan Moore-Jess Nevins type of cross-referencing works, etc. etc.
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  • No BS guy
    1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of name dropping, but nothing else
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2012
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    I did not expect great literature, but hoped that the series of novelettes in this book would have a few amusing, perhaps somewhat occult, stories. Instead, they were a random blithering of names and plots from every occult/horror story ever written, most of which have absolutely nothing to do with the stories being told. Perhaps that is because he stories in this book are somewhat boring nonentities that go nowhere. Mycroft Holmes is mentioned frequently in these stories, but never actually does anything. All in all, I was exceedingly disappointed and only finished the book because I was on a transatlantic flight and had nothing else to read.
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  • Dominick J. Tierno
    1.0 out of 5 stars Totally Disinteresting!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2014
    I've been reading fantasy / science fiction for better than 50 years. I rarely throw out ANYTHING, and then only if it is falling apart or water damaged. But I finished this book and immediately tossed it in the trash. I am absolutely confident that I will not ever want to read this book again. The stories were disjointed, getting through the book was not fun, but a chore, and I found only one story of even moderate interest.
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  • Mr. R. I. Moir
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2012
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    This book is a collection of short stories by Kim Newman, using some characters that appear in some of his full length novels.

    It's really a lot of fun, too. Kim has clearly had a good time writing these short stories and this comes through when you read them. An interesting supplement to the full length novels they are designed to slot in with.
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  • andrea schmidt-baumann
    2.0 out of 5 stars One of Newman's lesser books
    Reviewed in Germany on November 2, 2021
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    Newman is a great author of fantastic fiction. No doubt about that. He plays with any number of motifs and he plays well. Still, alluding to this and that and the other thing, bringing in this character and yet another character we know from other stories does not necessarily add up to a great story. Less inside jokes and more time spent on a gripping plot would have benefited these stories no end. This is long way from 'Anno Dracula' or 'The Quorum'.
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  • Bodie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2012
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    Having enjoyed his Dracula series of books (and of course his excellent reference book Nightmare Movies) I had high hopes for his Diogenes stories. I was not disappointed. There is a great vibe in these stories, akin to watching a really good episode of the Avengers. The stories are uniformly excellent, cannot recommend highly enough.
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  • Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2011
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    You may have come across some of the stories already. But it is a septic publication. Nonteless an excellent addition to the world of Newman
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  • Lynne Thompson
    4.0 out of 5 stars Kim Newman is well worth a read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2013
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    This book is really well written. The characters are engaging, and the stories are written with a degree of wit and satire, that is very amusing. My first Kim Newman book will not be my last.
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