Historical

With publishers and estates loath to say goodbye to lucrative brands, the death of the author is no longer the end of a string of bestsellers.

“All the right foundation stones are there on which to build a solid series.”

“a riveting tale of intrigue, murder, treason, and injustice that will appeal to readers who love both history and a literate mystery.”

“A Demon Summer is a hard-to-put down mystery.”

“The series is renowned for its accurate and often devastating presentation of Victorian London—a world of stark polarities between rich and poor.”

“The device used . . . is clever. . . . These stories are dull.”

“. . . this is a story about the subtle shadings between truth and performance, between acting and the ‘true self’ which we present to the world.

“Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense is not an anthology of the best crime stories of the past 50 years, the best that were published in AHMM