HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
Agnes Lake Hickok: Queen of the Circus, Wife of a Legend
Agnes Lake Hickok must have been made of extraordinary stuff. She married circus performer Bill Lake in 1847 and made…
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
The “ship of the line” was the equivalent of the battleship in navies in the age of sail. While numerous…
Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne du Maurier and the Dark Secret of Neverland
‘Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.’ D. H. Lawrence. This fascinating and disturbing book unravels…
Stranger Room
The fifth title in the Ike Schwartz series finds the erstwhile sheriff of Picketville, Virginia, with a murder on his…
The Devlin Diary
Have you ever read a book that you wish did not end? The author’s second novel focuses on Hannah Devlin,…
The Treasures of Venice
Ah, Romance! Loucinda McGary’s second ultra-romantic novel, set in a sultry modern-day Venice, has all the requisites of a frothy…
The Honored Dead
In 1883, President Arthur orders Lt. Commander Peter Wake on a secret mission into French Indochina. As an intelligence officer,…
Mrs. Lincoln
Born in 1819 and brought up in Kentucky in a slave-owning family, Mary Lincoln visited a black one-legged ‘conjure woman’…
The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton Detective into the Death of President Lincoln
Originally published in 1979 and now reissued to coincide with the Lincoln bicentennial, the novel purports to be a manuscript…
Brimstone
Editors' choice
Hired gunmen Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole become deputies again to “clean up” a town in the Old West. These…
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