Tess Heckel
Capacity for Murder
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Professor Benjamin Bradshaw, an electrical engineer in a burgeoning career of the early 20th century, makes his living filing patents on his electrical ...Read Review
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
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We readers of Jane Austen may feel we know the author by her characters and novels, but factors such as world events and ...Read Review
Make Believe: An Edna Ferber Mystery
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It’s 1950s Hollywood, and author Edna Ferber’s famous novel Show Boat is the current movie buzz. She leaves her beloved New ...Read Review
I, Hogarth
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Renowned artist William Hogarth, whose paintings and engravings illustrated the unfortunate and decadent lives of 18th-century London residents, is born in the London ...Read Review
Beneath the Abbey Wall
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In 1950s Scotland, memories of the war are being edged out by the new “invasions” of television and rock and roll music. The ...Read Review
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family
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Marie Curie is famous for her discovery of the scientific element, radium, which changed the world and for which she, along with her ...Read Review
Moments Captured
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Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga wagon to record ...Read Review
The Greatcoat
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With rationing and housing shortages continuing in 1952 England, Dr. Philip Carey and his new wife, Isabel, make do with a cold, shabby flat ...Read Review
A Private History of Happiness, Ninety-Nine Moments of Joy from Around the World
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Happiness being an elusive encounter in our modern age, we often need to know that it truly can be found. Turning to the ...Read Review
Death at the Jesus Hospital
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London, 1910: in an almshouse named Jesus Hospital, elderly members of the Ancient Mistery of Silkworkers, a London livery company founded in the 17th ...Read Review