Tess Heckel
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder
Dumfermline, Scotland, between the World Wars, boasted two competitive department stores: Aitkin Emporium and House of Hepburn. Dandy Gilver, aristocratic…
The House at Sea’s End
The ever-encroaching sea on the coast of Norfolk, England uncovers six skeletons, bound, shot, and hidden in a deep cove.…
A Rhumba in Waltz Time
Los Angeles, 1933: Police detective Chris Blanchard of Hollywood Division is a straight cop for the LAPD who made the…
India Black and the Widow of Windsor
Queen Victoria, perpetually grieving widow, hungers for news from “the other side” of her dearly departed Albert. Consulting a new…
City of Promise: A Novel of New York’s Gilded Age
The American Civil War is ending, and Confederate prisoner Joshua Turner returns to New York, minus a leg but filled…
An American Type
The Great Depression was no help to poor, New York Jewish ghetto novelist Ira Stigman, who loathed his current dependence…
The Sonnets
In 1592, young playwright William Shakespeare was forced on hiatus out of London due to threats of the plague. Returning…
The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise
Fin-de-siècle Paris was a macrocosm of art, literature, dancers in the Moulin Rouge and lovers walking along the Seine. However, a…
The Missing
Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a…
The Wise Woman’s Tale
During the Great War, life in London was thought not as safe as the countryside. But as Kate Barnes…
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