Coming in 2026...
I’m writing still.
At the moment, I’m in Istanbul/Constantinople, the year is 1937. The seal ring of King Solomon has been discovered; its rediscovery portends war! Yes, it’s the penultimate story of the redoubtable German detectives Karl von Hallerstein and Gustav Wessels. Their debut was in ‘The Beast of Babylon’, but the tales have grown….
Of course, their adventures are not simply an historical romance set in a turbulent period of world history. It is more than a hard-boiled detective novella - though that genre plays its part. For in these pages also lurks the Weird. The two men navigate both a material reality that is in itself tumultuous, whilst at the same time, encountering things from beyond.
Inevitably, they must ride the storm of history that envelops them. But outside of those earthly challenges, they struggle to overcome threats from realms where mortal man should never knowingly tread.
Dark Reich, coming in 2026!