Bøger af Kenneth Cameron

"Virginia and Felix grow suspicious about a neighbor's death by hit-and-run and get to the bottom of the "accident.""--

England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics. No surprise, Denton has his doubts; nevertheless, he's agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Naples, Italy. Napoli may be bella, but it offers Denton only boredom and frustration, until a dead body shows up to make life interesting.

It's 1901, and with the Boer War raging, England's air is crackling with political intrigue. But it's not South Africa that is on everyone's lips. Rather, it's The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism echoes ever more loudly through London's East End. It's all largely academic for Denton until his neighbor is murdered, and signs point to the growing conflict between the Jews and those who hate them. So Denton yet again sticks his American nose into England's business. And he keeps it there, even as the price for asking questions grows higher every day.

Denton comes to the aid of a damsel in distress, taking him deep into London's "bohemian" quarters.

Denton, a celebrated American author, investigates the murder of a prostitute at the turn of 20th century in London.

It's true that Denton and Henry James are both American writers now living in London, but they have little else in common: James has the gravitas (and perhaps the pomposity) of a living legend, master of the literary kingdom, while Denton...well, he's scruffy and often covered in dog hair. But he does have this knack for sorting out problems, and James has just such a problem. There was a box, you see, and now it's gone missing, and in the box were certain letters that, if made public, could be most embarrassing. Most embarrassing indeed.

A Louisa Conan Doyle mystery perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and the Denton mystery series.