Everybody's Favorite Duck

Everybody's Favorite Duck is a pastiche, or perhaps a parody, of classic detective fiction. This short novel pits the detectives Enoch Bone and John Weston against the Professor, a British Napoleon of Crime; the Mandarin, a Chinese mastermind, and Spectrobert, a French rogue.

Related Topics:
Pastiche - Parody - Detective fiction - Enoch Bone - John Weston - Napoleon - Chinese - Mastermind - Spectrobert - French - Rogue

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While few people read the Doctor Fu Manchu novels of Sax Rohmer at the beginning of the 21st Century, his character has become iconic and is easily recognized in many of the traits of the Mandarin; while the Professor will recall Professor Moriarty, the Original Napoleon of Crime; and Spectrobert may owe something to any number of gentleman thieves and super-criminals.

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Fu Manchu - Sax Rohmer - 21st Century - Professor Moriarty

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Bone and Weston are modelled on Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Arthur Conan Doyle's archetypal crime solving team, although they may have more in common with the motion picture Holmes and Watson of the 1940s than the turn-of-the-century British, Baker Street originals. They may also owe something Sax Rohmer's detectives.

Related Topics:
Sherlock Holmes - Dr. Watson - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1940s

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The plot has the three super-villains combining forces in a plot which baffles the police, the FBI and the CIA and even bemuses the two heroes.

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FBI - CIA

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The story comes to a head in a theme park, Waldo World, featuring the popular duck in the title, and its creator, Waldo. The story has a surprise twist at the ending, worthy of the most twisted of the plotters whose villainy drives the plot until the final scenes of the novel.

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