HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Hardcastle’s Traitors
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1915. With England in the midst of war, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle gets pulled from the streets of London into an international investigation. A ...Read Review
Mundy’s Law
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Joe Mundy is out of a job. As deputy marshal of Baxter Springs, Kansas in 1876, one night Mundy kills a prominent rancher, along ...Read Review
Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses
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This is the seventh in McPherson’s 1920s Scottish mystery series featuring Dandy (Dandelion) Gilver. Dandy receives a phone call from an old ...Read Review
Benedict Hall
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Campbell’s novel captures a wide swath of Seattle in the early 1920s, bringing to life a city struggling with growing pains as ...Read Review
Silent Noon
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Fourteen-year-old Barney Holland is sent to board at Carding House School on Lindsey Island in the North Sea after his mother abandons him. ...Read Review
The Power of Harmony
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In 1968 Nova Scotia, nine-year-old Jennifer waits nervously for her turn to sing at the Music Festival. Although everyone tells her she’s “got ...Read Review
Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
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Perhaps you’ve seen the bumper sticker: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Upton Sinclair was paying attention. This ...Read Review
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century 1900-1910
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One of my favorite digital galleries on the New York Public Library website has always been the Buttolph Menu Collection. Containing menus from ...Read Review
The Windsor Faction
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It is the first few months of the Second World War, and the British are in that curiously suspended situation, wondering when, if ...Read Review
Gods of the Steppe
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This novel is part coming-of-age story for a 12-year-old boy, and part critique of a mining operation near a remote village in the ...Read Review
