On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling murder of Mary Rogers in "The Mystery of Marie Rogt."
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force prov...
Martin Harry Greenberg John Lellenberg Daniel Stashower
Ingeniously contrived and shrewdly executed by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction todayAnne Perry, Loren Estleman, Gillian Linscott, Edward D. Hoch, Peter Tremayne, Stuart Kaminsky, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Howard Engel, Carolyn Wheat, and L. B. Greenwoodthe eleven stories in this premier volume celebrate the keen mind and singular manners of the Great Detective. "This collection is of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf."Minneapolis Star Tribune "A worthier gift for any mystery aficionado cannot be imagined."Chicago Sun-Times "Uniformly...
Ingeniously contrived and shrewdly executed by some of the finest talents at work in crime fiction todayAnne Perry, Loren Estleman, Gillian Linscott, ...
Martin Harry Greenberg Jon Lellenberg Daniel Stashower
Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazyin full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companion Dr. John Watson investigate a series of previously unrecorded cases in this second collection of totally original and confounding tales. As in the popular debut volume, Murder in Baker Street, Anne Perry and ten more popular mystery writersincluding Sharyn McCrumb, Carolyn Wheat, Malachi Saxon, Jon L. Breen, Bill Crider, Colin Bruce, Lenore Carroll, Barry Day, Daniel Stashower, and Loren D. Estleman celebrate the mind and methods of Sherlock...
Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazyin full bohemian color the world's most famous literary detective and his loyal companio...
A remarkable annotated collection of previously unpublished private correspondence from the creator of Sherlock Holmes This extraordinary annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. Detailing Conan Doyle's life from his beginnings as a country doctor to his struggle with the success of Sherlock Holmes and his ultimate calling as the foremost spokesman for Spiritualism, Conan Doyle's letters expose his innermost thoughts on literature, world events, and matters of the heart. Under the...
A remarkable annotated collection of previously unpublished private correspondence from the creator of Sherlock Holmes This extraordinary a...
"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller."--Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in THE HOUR OF PERIL.
In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fully-matured" threat of assassination as he traveled by train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration. Over a...
"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller."--Harlan Coben Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award...
