SUMMARY:A selection of twelve classic mystery stories by the peerless Queen of Crime, including the acclaimed 'Philomel Cottage''ŚTwelve tantalizing cases'Ś the curious disa...
ReviewPraise for The Last of the Live Nude Girls"[McClear] finds new ground not only in the specificity of her subject matter, but in the strength of her account of j...
From Publishers WeeklyThis astute if not entirely cohesive debut account from investigative journalist and former banker Cohan chronicles the long metamorphosis of Lazard Frères. C...
Russian playwright and historian Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a minute-by-minute account of his terrifying...
Amazon.com ReviewWow. This stunning book succeeds on so many different levels--as an engrossing story, a character study, a history lesson, a modern day political allegory--I don't...
St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himse...
SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines....
SUMMARY: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Tim...