Thierry Martens
Thierry Martens was a Belgian author who wrote science fiction, detective novels, short stories and comics under the pen name Yves Varende.
Career
Martens was the editor of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou between 1968 and 1977. He published several highly documented anthologies and studies about popular "Holmesian-style" French-language crime novels of the early twentieth century. Martens also authored some dark Holmesian pastiches in French as well as super-science novels.Works
Sci-fi novels
- Les Gadgets de l'Apocalypse
- Les Tueurs de l'Ordre
- ''Tuez les Tous''
Non-fiction studies
- Introduction to the Belgian re-edition of the "Lord Lister, genannt Raffles, der Meisterdieb" German pulp magazine, introducing the fictional character Raffles - Claude Lefrancq Editeur Brussels 1995 1996
Holmesian novels
- Le Requin de la Tamise Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1997
- le Tueur dans le Fog
- Le Secret de l'Ile au Chien
- Les Meurtres du Titanic Lefrancq coll. En Poche, Paris 1998
- L'otage de Fraulein Doktor
- Sherlock Holmes et les Fantômes anthology
Anthologies
- Sherlock Holmes revient : an anthology of six German anonymous short stories originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by editor/translator.