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The Jekyll Legacy
First Published: 1990 Publisher: Tor Format: Hardcover |
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Summary: A newspaper advertisement brings impoverished Hester Lane to the London offices of the solicitor to the missing and presumed dead Dr. Henry Jekyll. Here, Hester learns that she is the long-lost niece of Jekyll and sole heir to the doctor’s estate. Her joy at her good fortune is short-lived as an inspector of Scotland Yard suspects the young woman of having conspired to kill her uncle—all the while, a series of brutal murders within the Jekyll circle begs the chilling question of whether the monstrous Hyde is truly dead...
Bloch: “Rest and relaxation came in convention attendance. At least I thought so, until two Florida functions in a row brought me into contact with my colleague Andre Norton and her business associate, Ingrid Zierhut. Here it was proposed that Andre and I collaborate on a novel together. The sheer audacity of such a notion was irresistible; combining that lady’s delicate fantasy with my own raunchy approach would not only constitute a mutual challenge but evoke curiosity on the part of our readers.
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Andre Norton had already commenced working on the collaboration and established the pattern we were to follow throughout. She wrote a chapter and sent it to me for editing and edification. I then wrote the next chapter and consigned it to her tender mercies. We continued this process of alternation, at times writing two chapters instead of one when a situation required lengthier narration. Somewhere along the line I suggested a working title—The Jekyll Legacy—to which Andre agreed.
Read Bloch's elaboration on the origin of his collaboration with Andre Norton: A Conversation...
Note: Considered the sequel to Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Bloch: “Rest and relaxation came in convention attendance. At least I thought so, until two Florida functions in a row brought me into contact with my colleague Andre Norton and her business associate, Ingrid Zierhut. Here it was proposed that Andre and I collaborate on a novel together. The sheer audacity of such a notion was irresistible; combining that lady’s delicate fantasy with my own raunchy approach would not only constitute a mutual challenge but evoke curiosity on the part of our readers.
….
Andre Norton had already commenced working on the collaboration and established the pattern we were to follow throughout. She wrote a chapter and sent it to me for editing and edification. I then wrote the next chapter and consigned it to her tender mercies. We continued this process of alternation, at times writing two chapters instead of one when a situation required lengthier narration. Somewhere along the line I suggested a working title—The Jekyll Legacy—to which Andre agreed.
Read Bloch's elaboration on the origin of his collaboration with Andre Norton: A Conversation...
Note: Considered the sequel to Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Bibliography
US: Tor Books; hc 1990
US: Tor; pb 1991
France: J'ai Lu ("L'héritage du Dr Jekyll"); pb 1992
Germany: Bastei-Verl ("Dr. Jekylls erbe: ein Historischer"); pb 1993
Russia: Litera-T ("Наследие Джекила"); hc 2017 *
UK: Worldbuilders Press; eBook 2017
UK: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency; pb 2018
*An original omnibus, collecting: The Jekyll Legacy (as Jekyll's Legacy), and the Bloch stories "The Real Bad Friend" (as "A True Friend") and "Water's Edge" (as "Rats").
US: Tor; pb 1991
France: J'ai Lu ("L'héritage du Dr Jekyll"); pb 1992
Germany: Bastei-Verl ("Dr. Jekylls erbe: ein Historischer"); pb 1993
Russia: Litera-T ("Наследие Джекила"); hc 2017 *
UK: Worldbuilders Press; eBook 2017
UK: Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency; pb 2018
*An original omnibus, collecting: The Jekyll Legacy (as Jekyll's Legacy), and the Bloch stories "The Real Bad Friend" (as "A True Friend") and "Water's Edge" (as "Rats").