Mycroft Holmes (novel) seek answers. Holmes and Douglas follow her to the island and are confronted with dark mysteries. Having been a fan of the original Sherlock Holmes stories as a child, Abdul-Jabbar specifically chose to write about Mycroft as he felt that there was already an abundance of Sherlock Holmes pastiches. Reading Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright's "Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes" caused Abdul-Jabbar to realize "more could be done with this ‘older, smarter’ character and his window on to the highest levels of British government – at a time when Britain was the most powerful
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine "Spicy Detective", dated June 1934, and he continued to appear regularly in that magazine (which was retitled "Speed Detective" in 1943) until its demise in February 1947. He also appeared in his "own" magazine, "Hollywood Detective", which was published by Culture Publications (later Trojan Publishing) and ran from January 1942 to October 1950. Dan Turner was a typical hardboiled private eye, who worked in the Hollywood