Boss Tweed's Dinosaurs

by A.L. Sirois

Historical Fiction, Middle In the New York City of 1870, 14-year-old Orville Leblanc gets a chance of a lifetime -- to go to work for Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who is building a museum devoted to dinosaurs right in the middle of Central Park! But first Orvy has to convince his stern father, who has no tolerance for Orvy's love of art, that the project is "practical." Other, darker, forces are at work, too. Orvy doesn't suspect that he's about to have the most exciting summer of his life. What happens to him will change his future, and that of the Central Park dinosaurs.

Paperback

Published July 1, 2002

About the author

I made my first story sale in 1974, shortly followed by another. My first book was, oddly enough, a children’s book, DINOSAUR DRESS UP, published in 1992. Since then, I’ve published several other books, mostly science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I’ve also ghostwritten more than a dozen works of science fiction, fantasy, memoirs, and cozy mysteries. My short story “In the Conservatory” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

A recent publication, “The Adventure of the Accelerationist,” in BLACK CAT WEEKLY #76, was nominated by the magazine's editor for the Shamus Award, an annual prize for outstanding detective fiction.

In 2024, Regal House published the 1st volume in my trilogy of YA books set in ancient Egypt, MURDER IN MENNEFER. The second, in 2025, is IMHOTEP AND THE QUEST TO KUSH.

This page on my web site has links to stories that have been published in online magazines. https://alsirois.com/my-work/

A few years ago, I wrote, inked and lettered a 124-page graphic novel, The Endless Incident. I have worked for DC, Marvel, Charlton, and Warren Publications. I contributed “Bugs in the System” to witzend #12. Between 1975 and 1980, I worked for Wallace Wood and other DC and Marvel artists, including Dick Giordano, Bob Layton, and Frank McLaughlin. I inked backgrounds for Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Hercules Unbound, PLOP!, Stalker, Justice League of America, All Star Comics (Justice Society of America), X-Men, and Champions, among other titles, including the one-shot Superman vs. Muhammed Ali.