false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170948259m/78465.jpg 78465 2 When the Morton Street Slasher leaves the corpses of his victims on the tangled gaslit streets near San Francisco's Union Square, he marks each body with a playing card. Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, the city's famed newspaperman, immediately blames the rash of murders on his sworn enemies, the Southern Pacific Railway magnates. Bierce and his young protege at the <i>Hornet</i>, Tom Redmond, set out to solve the case, uncovering conspiracy and corruption at every turn. <br><br>Smart, funny, and compulsively readable, <i>Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades</i> is more than a simple murder mystery. Like Caleb Carr's </i>The Alienist</i> and E. L. Doctorow's <i>The Waterworks</i>, it exposes the sordid underbelly of Gilded Age America.<br><br>"Hall conjures up a wonderfully yeasty San Francisco in the 1870s. . . . The dialogue and detail are sung with perfect pitch."-- <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>"Oakley Hall is a novelist who never seems to make a wrong move. . . . He is a writer to read again and again."-- Richard Ford<br><br>"One of the country's finest writers"(Robert Stone) 1316810 1998 Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades (Penguin Mysteries (Paperback)) total:12|4:3|3:9| 12 39 23 3 3 0 false false Fri Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sun Aug 02 10:09:30 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 10:13:56 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Wed Aug 12 21:58:04 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 22:00:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 01 14:06:35 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 14:07:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:51:32 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 15:51:47 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 10:16:58 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 10:16:58 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 18:39:52 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 18:39:52 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 11:13:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 11:13:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 20:47:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:47:03 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 11:42:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:42:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 23:30:04 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 23:30:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 17:57:29 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 17:57:29 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 28 18:59:52 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:59:52 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Dec 20 12:41:07 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:41:07 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Dec 15 10:14:40 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:14:40 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 28 15:33:55 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 15:33:57 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Sep 02 08:29:54 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 08:30:02 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 04 06:10:32 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 18 12:00:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 27 13:30:57 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 13:31:17 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jun 24 13:53:13 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 13:53:13 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Mar 25 09:46:19 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 09:46:19 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=78465