Helene Williams
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
The saga of William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, began in 1877 when he was just 17 and…
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
The phrase “the Great Depression” brings to mind black-and-white photographs of tired men in worn clothes standing in bread lines,…
Colony
From the mid-19th century until World War II, French criminals were often deported to penal colonies in South America, such…
City of Dragons
Readers searching for a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, smart-mouthing female version of the classic Sam Spade private detective need look no further…
Curriculum Vitae
Part fiction, part memoir, Hoffmann’s novel could mean many things to readers, or it could mean nothing. Written as a…
Bury Me Deep
Phoenix, Arizona, in 1931 is a combination of a dusty Wild West town and a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.…
The Tale of Applebeck Orchard
In this installment of the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series, facts from Potter’s world mix with a fictional mystery…
Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West
This collection of letters, between Leroy Carpenter, of Greeley, Colorado, and Martha Bennett, of DeWitt, Iowa, covers from January 1871…
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Greenwood’s latest entry in the Phryne Fisher series, her 16th, has the unflappable Melbourne detective facing a multitude of problems:…
The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton — British military officer, spy, and gifted linguist — has been the subject of multiple biographies,…
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