To keep the peace after an attempted assassination, a Prince must be smuggled out of England aboard the Flying Scotsman, the fastest train between London and Edinburgh. Disguised as journalists, Mycroft and Patterson Guthrie, guard the Prince. Also aboard is Pauline Gatspy. Is she on Mycroft's si...
I found myself torn while reading this book. On the one hand, the writing style was engaging and the vocabulary and phrasing felt very period-appropriate. On the other hand, I quite frankly disliked the main narrator (Guthrie, Mycroft's secretary) and I had a lot of problems with the plot itself....
L’AMOUR ... OR LA MORT? While on a sensitive mission for her husband, the Inspector General, lovely Victoire Vernet inadvertently stumbles upon a traitorous cabal. Not everyone in France revels in the triumphs of her adored hero, Napoleon Bonaparte. Rumors that the great leader is to be formal...
When her husband is unjustly accused of theft and murder in Napoleonic France, Mme. Victoire Vernet sets out to clear his name and finds herself in the middle of a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Quinn Fawcett is a "house name" used by editor Bill Fawcett; in this case, the writer is Yarbro.
Completely. Utterly. Wrong. I met Gene a decade ago when the World Horror Convention was held in Chicago, and he and Neil Gaiman were guests of honor. I was on a tight deadline, and so allowed myself only one day at the ...
The war lasted nearly five years and devastated much of the southern United States. Had the Union won the first battle of the war, there is a good chance that the war might have ended within weeks when compromises were still possible. In the first battles of the Civil War, both sides struggled to...
ANDERSON Just before the decade of the 1970s began, those of us with a science-fiction mind-set experienced our greatest moment of triumph and possibility: It was July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had set foot on the Moon—only six weeks after the very last episode of the original Star...
