HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
The Adulteress
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The Adulteress is based on the true 1920s Thompson-Bywater murder case and is virtually as fascinating. Margolin presents a brilliant case study in ...Read Review
My French Whore
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Living a simple life as a train conductor and sometime actor, Paul Peachy realizes his wife will never be happy. So he impulsively ...Read Review
Letters from the Corrugated Castle: A Novel of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852
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Written in the form of letters, this unusual book is about thirteen-year-old Eldora, who has just moved with her aunt and uncle from ...Read Review
Montmorency’s Revenge
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1901. Queen Victoria is dying. In this, the fourth of Montmorency’s adventures, Inspector Howard suspects a possible anarchist plot to bomb her funeral—...Read Review
Austerity Britain, 1945-51
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Try to imagine a world without supermarkets, television, automatic washing machines, personal computers, package holidays with almost every necessity rationed, and you might ...Read Review
Rashi’s Daughters, Book II: Miriam
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Alternate HistoryInspirational
Rashi, living in Troyes, France, in the latter half of the 11th century, was one of Judaism’s greatest scholars.Troyes at the ...Read Review
Murder Most Royal
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I first read Murder Most Royal as a teenager. On re-reading this spending looking reprint I found the writing still fresh and sharp, ...Read Review
Special Assignments
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In this latest addition to the Erast Fandorin series, Akunin offers his international fans a double dose of intriguing and absolutely unputdownable novellas ...Read Review
Mademoiselle Victorine
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This engaging novel recounts an exciting life for the nude model in Edouard Manet’s famous painting, Olympia. Mademoiselle Victorine is a young ...Read Review
Captive of my Desires
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Upon the death of her mother, eighteen-year-old Gabriella Brooks sails from England to the Caribbean in search of her father rather than be ...Read Review
