20th Century
Pictures at an Exhibition
A young man’s attempts to please a father he perceives as disparaging and indifferent form the core of this…
Rubies in the Snow
This is the fictionalised diary of ten-year-old Anastasia, youngest daughter of Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. In the straightforward style…
The Color of Lightning
Freedman Britt Johnson, his wife, and their three children left their home in Kentucky to homestead on the North Texas…
The King of Ragtime
The King of Ragtime is Karp’s second mystery featuring Scott Joplin. Following The Ragtime Kid, set in 1899 in Sedalia,…
A Quiet Flame
Editors' choice
Framed as a war criminal, ex-SS officer Bernie Gunther is forced to flee to Argentina with the likes of Adolph…
Oh, Johnny
In the opening scene of Jim Lehrer’s Oh, Johnny, we encounter nineteen-year-old Johnny Wrigley aboard a marine troop train bound…
The Stalin Epigram
The author of The Stalin Epigram is an American who has lived abroad for many years and written spy thrillers…
Madewell Brown
When Obie Poole, a retired Negro League baseball player from the ’20s, met Rachael Poole, he knew this orphan girl…
Devil’s Garden
With the rash of mysteries featuring famous people as amateur detectives, I tend to sigh when I see another one,…
The Creator’s Map
For the first few chapters, this is a Da Vinci Code-style thriller. Rival groups of unscrupulous men from sinister organisations…
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