John MacLachlan Gray
1) Vile Spirits
Author
Publisher
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel driving big business, big government—and major crime. In this spellbinding follow-up to his mystery The White Angel, John MacLachlan Gray captures the spirit of Vancouver in those gritty, gin-soaked days, as the city was remaking itself between wars.
Alcohol is once again legal in Vancouver after the failed experiment of prohibition,
...Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On a rust-bucket cargo ship bound from Liverpool to the United States in 1848, an Irish stowaway named Devlin steals a suspicious package after witnessing it changing hands between two sea captains. All he finds is a seemingly worthless pile of papers marked "David Copperfield, Final Four Numbers, by Charles Dickens." Devlin is determined to see if he can somehow turn events to his advantage by paying a call on Dickens's American publisher.
A year...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"I mark this day most especially with a White Stone."
---Lewis Carroll, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll
Edmund Whitty, a London newspaper correspondent who can usually be counted upon for crisp and lurid copy, has fallen upon lean times. After his triumphant exposé of a notorious serial killer, he has inexplicably lost his knack for sensational reporting. Broke and desperate, he seizes upon a generous offer from a mysterious American to discredit...
