Mike Hogan's Books
Apr.30.2013
'This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghost need apply.' - Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. Despite Holmes' injunction, clients troubled with vampires, apparitions, mummies and disembodied skulls did mount the seventeen steps at 221B Baker Street and apply to his agency, and he was...
Feb.18.2013
June 1887. As the climax of her Golden Jubilee celebrations, Queen Victoria will join more than fifty foreign monarchs and heads of state, her peers of the realm and her ministers in a service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey. Spymasters in the newly created Special (Irish) Branch of Scotland Yard inform the Prime Minister that blood-oath Irish Republican fanatics vow to...
Dec.10.2012
This is the first in a series of books that originated in an article I read in which the author claimed that twenty-odd per cent of people in the UK thought that Sherlock Holmes was a real, historical character, and a similarly daft percentage thought that Winston Churchill was a fictional character. How, I thought, could I convince people that Winston was real? Have him meet...
Sherry: I always said that humor is the best medicine.
Niles: We must be in the placebo group. ”
—Frasier
About Mike
I'm a full-time writer based in Thailand. I've lived most of my life in Africa, Asia and the Far East manufacturing handicrafts and teaching. A year ago, I decided to quit regular work and write. There wasn't really a plan, just an instinct that I could write...
Causes Mike Hogan Supports
Privacy.
Mike’s Favorite Books
The Aubrey-Maturin series, Middlemarch, At Home.