The Green Lama is an interesting pulp hero that had a short career that I’ve posted on before. In recent years, Adam Lance Garcia has been doing several authorized additional adventures with the character.
When we last left off, Jethro Dumont had given up the mantle and left it to one of his main associates, Jean Farrell. She now carries on the mantle.
In The Heir Apparent, we sort of get the next adventure. The framing story is set shortly after the prior adventure, The Crimson Circle. But the main story is set in 1935, and is, so far, the first recorded Green Lama story. Dumont, along with Tsarong, is heading to the United States from Tibet after a decade away. Stopping briefly in London, he is pulled into an adventure with Sherlock Holmes through the agency of Mycroft Holmes.
There is apparently a string of kidnappings of children in London that has been going on for a long while but has been overlooked because it has been going on within the Asian communities. Holmes is asked by a mysterious woman to look into it, and when Dumont lands in England, Mycroft sends him to help out.
Whoever is behind it seems to have a history with Dumont and Tsarong. Their hotel room is attacked, and Tsarong is kidnapped while Dumont fends off his attacker. Holmes was also attacked and captured his attacker. They learn only that the mastermind calls himself “The Heir” and thinks Dumont is an impostor. Will they track him down, free the children, and find out what connection this person has with Dumont?
I do hope we will see more new Green Lama stories. This book came out in 2017 from Moonstone Books, and we get hints of other unrecorded stories. Will we see earlier stories? Will we see stories that continue from the prior ones? We get a hint at the end of Dumont coming back from where he has been. So I look forward to whatever we get.
