To The Last Page

I'm in two minds about the idea of other contemporary writers taking up a classic series of a great author and writing further adventures in their style in their period, in their world. On the one hand there's always some curiosity to see if they can measure up and even surpass the originals, but a fear that they might just get into a pastiche or even Frankenstein compilation of the original author's riffs. I can't testify to the success or otherwise of the continuation of Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming's most famous characters by modern authors, as I've never even read the originals. Nor Stieg Larsson, as I was never a fan of the original . Of those I have tried;  Gyles Brandreth 's spin on Oscar Wilde or Peter Ackroyd's pastiche  The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde  I found well done and entertaining; Stephen Baxter doing HG Wells in  The Massacre of Mankind  not so much as Brian Stapleford's more imaginative  The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires . Ch...