U.K. Release - 1st Edition







Title:
(U.K.)
The Ghost and the Gumshoe

Author: Julie Robitaille

Printed:
(1st run)

1990
Corgi
ISBN #: 978-0552136433

Leap Date: February 7, 1971
& April 14, 1953

Cover: Publicity photo

Pages:
192




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U.K. Release - 2nd Edition









Title:
(U.K.)
The Ghost and the Gumshoe

Author: Julie Robitaille

Printed:
(2nd run)

1994
Boxtree

ISBN #: 978-1852833978

Leap Date: February 7, 1971
& April 14, 1953

Cover: Keith Fowles

Pages:
192



France Release



Back Cover:

Retrouvez Sam Beckett et Al, son ange guardian holographique… Les héros de la célèbre série TV!

Voyager dans le temps, je veux bien. J’en ai - hélas - l’habitude. Mais ce coup-ci, je dis non!

 Un manoir isolé, une jeune femme qui croit entendre la voix de son défunt mari et veut le rejoindre dans l’audelà... ça vous dirait, comme vacances?

Et Manhattan, 1953: un gros flic qui vous accuse de meurtre, une petite vielle qui vous accuse de meurtre, une petite vielle qui vois prend pour Bogart, ce n’est pas mal non plus, comme week-end...

Vous voulez ma place? Je vous la cède!

Ou plutôt, non. Je garde mon fardeau, j’assume mon destin. Car il y a Allison.

Allison... Durant tous mes sauts dans le temps, je n’ai jamais recontré une femme comme elle. Elle vaut tous les sacrifices, tout le folies. Al aura beau me répéter qu’elle a l’intention de me tuer, ça ne changera rien: Allison me rend fou.

Et je suis dans un beau pétrin.

Au secours!



Title:
(France)
The Ghost and the Gumshoe

Author: Julie Robitaille

Translation:
Isabelle St.
Martin

Printed:
July 1996
J'ai Lu

ISBN #: 2-290-04290-0

Leap Date: February 7, 1971
& April 14, 1953

Cover: Publicity photo from Goodnight, Dear Heart

Pages:
254

Synopsis

Synopsis:

February 7, 1971
Los Angeles, California

April 14, 1953
New York City, New York

As a parapsychologist in 1971, Sam must save a woman from drowning in a lake as per the family curse. Haunted by the voice of her dead husband, Troian has hired Sam to prove the voice she is hearing real. But is there more to it than just a ghost's curse?

When Sam leaps again to 1953, he jumps into the body of a Bogie-like shamus, and teams up with a "neat kid" to find the hit man who killed his partner.

Based on the television episodes, "A Portrait For Troian" and "Play It Again, Seymour."



Summary & review by Dermot Devlin of the former quantumleaping.com:

To anyone outside the UK who has not heard of this book. This book was only ever published in the UK for UK fans. This book contains the stories from two episodes from the series - A Portrait For Troian and Play it Again Seymour.

Julie Robitaille did a fantastic job in converting the two episodes into novels. She helped keep all that was great about Troian alive and added something special to the episode Play it Again Seymour.

The Ghost - A Portrait For Troian

The transition from screen to paper was made very seamlessly in this story. The Ghost lost none of the magic that Troian had to offer and the television. I definitely enjoyed this story every bit as much as I did the episode.


The Gumshoe - Play it Again Seymour

I read this story before I saw Play it Again Seymour on television. In the episode when Sam was pretending to be Humphrey Bogart in the mirror and telling Al that something was familiar about this leap, as if he knew what was going to happen next, I also felt the same but didn't know why. It wasn't until later on in the episode when Sam discovered that the person he leaped into wrote a book the events that are happening to Sam at the moment and that Sam had read it. It was at that moment I realised that this was The Gumshoe. It made me laugh how Sam and I seemed to be experiencing the same sense of deva-ju for the exact reasons!

I was never a big fan of this particular episode, but I really loved reading the story. I felt that the transition from screen to paper helped this story no end. The episode to me felt like the film Bugsy Malone starring all the children, whereas the book need not seem nowhere near as corny.


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This novel is an adaptation of two televised episodes. It is written from the first-person viewpoint of Dr. Sam Backett, as he tells the story.

A Portrait For Troian
begins on page 5.

Play It Again, Seymour
begins on page 96.