20th Century
The Uninvited Countess
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The story starts with humorous banter between art dealer Bedford Green and his “famously tall and lovely assistant” Sloane. It’s 1925 and Gertrude ...Read Review
The Stricklands
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Life during the Great Depression is hard, particularly for those living in Oklahoma. The Stricklands are one such family. Facing imminent loss of ...Read Review
Dark Star
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Set in the area between Germany and Russia known as The Pale of Settlement in the years immediately prior to WWII, this spellbinding ...Read Review
The Camel of Destruction
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In a 1910 Cairo rife with corrupt, strangely modern land deals and sour banking schemes, series sleuth Captain Owen solves yet another mysterious death, ...Read Review
Murder on the Minnesota
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George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have already made a name for themselves as shipboard detectives with the Cunard Lines. Now they are invited ...Read Review
Night Soldiers
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Alan Furst’s body of work remains totally focused on Europe between 1933 and 1945. Khristo Stoianev, a Bulgarian peasant, is introduced into the brutality ...Read Review
The Mamur Zapt & The Return of the Carpet
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With the celebration of the Return of the Holy Carpet from Mecca soon to take place, Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt or head ...Read Review
Forgotten Fire
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Vahan Kenderian was 12 when the Ottoman Turks sought to exterminate the Armenians in 1915. Comforts of his family’s upper class life in Bitlis, ...Read Review
Funnymen
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I hadn’t heard of the fabulous comic duo of Fountain and Bliss before reading this huge biographical compendium of their careers as ...Read Review
Angel of Mercy
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Angel of Mercy, third in Peterson and Bell’s Shannon Saga, portrays the life of a young, single woman in the predominant male ...Read Review