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Daniel Stashower

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The United States

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male

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http://www.stashower.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs

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Daniel Stashower is the author of The Boy Genius and The Mogul as well as the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is also the author of five mystery novels, the most recent of which is The Houdini Specter. Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashower's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.

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Average rating: 3.67 · 8,075 ratings · 901 reviews · 26 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder 3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War 3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Ectoplasmic Man 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1985 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle 3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dime Museum Murders 3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Floating Lady Murder 3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Houdini Specter 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elephants in the Distance 3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon L. Lellenberg (Editor), Charles Foley (Editor), Daniel Stashower (Editor) 3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Harry Houdini Mysteries (4 books)
by Daniel Stashower
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“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves"
— Edgar Allan Poe”
― Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

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“What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their day-the theaters have had their day-the temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great heaven , and save more from Hell, than all the churches and chapels in New York-besides making money at the same time" "Shakespeare is the great genius of the drama, Scott of the novel, Milton and Byron of the poem, and I mean to be the genius of the newspaper press." James Gordon Bennett, editor ot he New York Herald in 1841”
― Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

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“The Press is the living jury of the Nation." James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald in 1841”
― Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder