Dell Shannon, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-07216-2
Veteran mystery writer Shannon (Chaos of Crime, etc.) here tries her hand at historical romance. The action takes place during the Napoleonic Wars and centers upon Con McDonagh, a young Belfast-educated surgeon whose part in an anti-government...
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Dell Shannon, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-688-07998-7
Shannon (aka Elizabeth Linington and Egan O'Neill), the author of numerous detective stories set in Los Angeles, turned to historical fiction with The Proud Man, and her new novel continues in this genre. Backed by solid research, she focuses on the
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Dell Shannon, Author William Morrow & Company $17.95 (262p) ISBN 978-0-688-10119-0
Recently discovered by Shannon's literary executors, this tale of an ancient curse, set in Cornwall in the 1950s, has a curiously old-fashioned air. American journalist John Harkness, now based in London, is driving through Cornwall when he hears at
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Dell Shannon, Author William Morrow & Company $18 (228p) ISBN 978-0-688-11577-7
The publication of this recently discovered manuscript must have Shannon (who died in 1988) turning in her grave; it isn't up to the usual high standards of the veteran police procedural author ( Destiny of Death , etc.). A full-time nurse moves in...
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Bob Reiss. Grand Central/Business Plus, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-076-7
Despite the slightly deceptive title, Reiss offers a nuanced evaluation of the necessity of offshore drilling and ecological preservation. Tracing almost a year in the lives of Edward Itta, the Eskimo mayor of the North Slope of Alaska, and Pete...
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Dell Shannon. Poisoned Pen, $14.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1301-4
First published in 1960, this series launch from Elizabeth Linington (1921–1988) writing as Dell Shannon was an Edgar finalist, but it hasn’t aged well. Los Angeles homicide lieutenant Luis Mendoza, one of the first fictional Latino detectives,...
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