"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Other participants include Dracula, Abu Hassan, Fielding's Jonathan Wild, and Frankenstein's monster." - Kirkus Reviews The Incredible Umbrella Hardcover Januby Marvin Kaye (Author) 10 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 19.95 7 Used from 15.00 3 Collectible from 22.50 Paperback 25.00 3 Used from 14.16 9 New from 25. Fillmore blunders from the company of Samuel Pickwick to the lair of Professor Moriarty (who of course made the umbrella) and eventually to Abbott's Flatland, by way of haft a dozen other literary universes. Thenceforth, literary allusions take over the story with the alacrity of typhoid bacteria invading the bloodstream. Pinafore, The Mikado, etc., efficiently land him in the Fleet (the prison, not the navy). Adrian Fillmore, harassed academic underling, is transported by an unorthodox umbrella straight off to Gilbert-and-Sullivan-Land, where run-ins with the personnel of H.M.S. 575), is back to his more accustomed Sherlockian pastiche, accompanied this time by the kitchen sink and virtually the rest of the kitchen. "Kaye, who recently collaborated on a piece of relatively serious science fiction (The Masters of Solitude, p.
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