Angels of Music
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vicomte_de_chagnyTo anyone who was interested in Kim Newman's Angels of Music crossover between Charlie's Angels, "Phantom of the Opera" and just about every pulp fiction you can think of written or set in the 19th century:
I discovered that somebody has uploaded what appears to be a pirated copy of the text of the entire novel (so far as I could check against the Google Books preview) onto fanfiction.net as a POTO/Sherlock Holmes crossover https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12890290/1/
It probably ought to be reported for gross plagiarism/breach of copyright. However, I read the whole thing through, just to make sure ;-) and can confirm that there is no Raoul in it (unless you count Anatole and/or Raoul the policeman from the Claude Rains film) and very little Christine (who is depicted in this as a feather-brain). A couple of other Leroux characters make one-sentence cameos, the Marquis de Coulteray from "La Poupée Sanglante" and Joseph Rouletabille, as do some regular characters from other Kim Newman novels.
As a book, it's a bit uneven; the Grand Guignol section is probably the most powerful, but it's very nasty. The 'Burgher Kane' one is a bit limp (though I was glad Freddy survived) and the other two are so-so. The main interest is in spotting all the cameos; it took me much longer than it should have to work out why Gilberte, narrator of the final section, sounded so vaguely familiar...
(Actually, one weird thing is that the Christine of the original three Angels, although clearly intended to be Leroux' Christine, is named in the opening chapter as 'Christine DuBois', but there is a later reference in Ch8 to the 'ultimate defection' of 'Christine Daaé' — I don't know if the continuity error is a conscious suggestion by Newman that there might have been a 'real' Christine as well, or a change introduced by the pirate for his upload.)
I discovered that somebody has uploaded what appears to be a pirated copy of the text of the entire novel (so far as I could check against the Google Books preview) onto fanfiction.net as a POTO/Sherlock Holmes crossover https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12890290/1/
It probably ought to be reported for gross plagiarism/breach of copyright. However, I read the whole thing through, just to make sure ;-) and can confirm that there is no Raoul in it (unless you count Anatole and/or Raoul the policeman from the Claude Rains film) and very little Christine (who is depicted in this as a feather-brain). A couple of other Leroux characters make one-sentence cameos, the Marquis de Coulteray from "La Poupée Sanglante" and Joseph Rouletabille, as do some regular characters from other Kim Newman novels.
As a book, it's a bit uneven; the Grand Guignol section is probably the most powerful, but it's very nasty. The 'Burgher Kane' one is a bit limp (though I was glad Freddy survived) and the other two are so-so. The main interest is in spotting all the cameos; it took me much longer than it should have to work out why Gilberte, narrator of the final section, sounded so vaguely familiar...
(Actually, one weird thing is that the Christine of the original three Angels, although clearly intended to be Leroux' Christine, is named in the opening chapter as 'Christine DuBois', but there is a later reference in Ch8 to the 'ultimate defection' of 'Christine Daaé' — I don't know if the continuity error is a conscious suggestion by Newman that there might have been a 'real' Christine as well, or a change introduced by the pirate for his upload.)
