Thierry Martens

Thierry Martens (29 January 1942 – 27 June 2011) 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.

Sci-fi novels

 * Les Gadgets de l'Apocalypse (1978)
 * Les Tueurs de l'Ordre (1980)
 * Tuez les Tous (1980)

Non-fiction studies

 * Introduction to the Belgian re-edition (in French language) of the Lord Lister German novels - Claude Lefrancq Editeur Brussels 1995 (Vol.I) 1996 (Vol.II)

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 (Fleuve noir 1999)

Anthologies

 * Sherlock Holmes revient : an anthology of six German anonymous short stories (translated into French) originally published between 1907 and 1911. Introduction authored by editor/translator. (1996, éditions Fleuve Noir, collection Super Poche n° 27)