Mike Resnick's "Exploits": Collection of 10 stories about Lucifer Jones' adventures in Asia during 1926-1931
Table of contents below will get commentary as I go through the stories:
- "The Flame of Bharatput" (A): Humor. Lucifer successfully convinces his lady love of the moment that he is an expert tiger slayer! Humor is good enough, but leading lady is a snob. No where near the class of Lucifer stories set in South America, but not bad. Set in Jaipur, India.
- "Secret Sex" (B): Probably the worst Lucifer story I've read yet. Set in Delhi & Khajuraho, both in India. I found the humor in bad taste. Facts are generally right, but interpretation wrong. And a couple of plot elements are utterly incredulous - someone lending an elephant to a stranger, e.g.! I am not sure this is the India western audiences expect or believe, but I cannot identify with it & I've lived here all my life. Title is corruption of "secret sects" as the phrase passes through men speaking different languages.
- "The Master Detective"
- "The Sin City Derby"
- "The Insidious Oriental Dentist"
- "The Great Wall"
- "The Abominable Snowman"
- "The Land of Eternal Youth"
- "The Scorpion Lady"
- "The Other Master Detective"
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