In this compulsively readable mystery, the hero is the historical figure Ambrose Bierce, William Randolph Hearst's star reporter and San Francisco's most celebrated writer at the turn of the twentieth century. Bierce is asked to investigate the disappearance of a Hawaiian princess...
An accomplished writer in several genres of fiction, veteran novelist Oakley Hall has been praised as a novelist who never seems to make a wrong move. . . . He is a writer to read again and again (Richard Ford). The San Francisco Chronicle has included him -- along with Wallace...