Books by Ed Ifkovic and Complete Book Reviews
Ed Ifkovic, Author . Poisoned Pen $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-1-59058-587-0
Ifkovic’s promising debut, the first in a series, features real-life writer Edna Ferber as an amateur sleuth in 1955 Hollywood. The Pulitzer Prize winner is visiting there because her bestselling novel, Giant
, is being made into a film...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-59058-847-5; $14.95 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-59058-849-9
Set in Hollywood in 1955, Ifkovic's debut, Lone Star (2009), depicted Edna Ferber as a matronly but shrewd established author. This excellent prequel, set in 1904, shows her at the start of her career, a recent high school graduate working as a...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (234p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0082-3
Set in 1951, Ifkovic’s enjoyable third Edna Ferber mystery (after 2011’s Escape Artist) deposits the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer in Hollywood just before the premiere of the movie Show Boat, based on the musical adapted from her 1926 novel of the...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0155-4
The creative world of late 1927 Manhattan provides the backdrop for Ifkovic’s unconvincing fourth mystery to feature author Edna Ferber (after 2012’s Make Believe). Amid rehearsals for the musical version of her novel Show Boat and her coauthored...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0292-6
Ifkovic’s fifth Edna Ferber mystery (after 2013’s Downtown Strut) provides a splendid view of the highbrow theater culture of another era. In the summer of 1940, Ferber has chosen an abandoned movie theater in Maplewood, N.J., as the stage for her...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0543-9
The little town of Flemington, N.J., provides the setting for Ifkovic’s intriguing seventh mystery featuring novelist Edna Ferber (after 2015’s Café Europa). There she and a glittering array of celebrities, including Damon Runyon, Dorothy Kilgallen,
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (254p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0794-5
Set in 1923, Ifkovic’s middling eighth Edna Ferber mystery (after 2016’s Cold Morning) takes real-life author Ferber, who’s working on her novel So Big, and her mother, Julia, to Chicago, to visit an old friend of Julia’s, Esther Newmann. Living...
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (264p) ISBN 978-1-4642-0943-7
Set in New York during the winter of 1933, Ifkovic’s outstanding ninth mystery featuring writer Edna Ferber (after 2017’s Old News) opens at British playwright Noel Coward’s 33rd birthday party at his penthouse overlooking the East River. The guests,
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Ed Ifkovic. Poisoned Pen, $26.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-4642-1115-7
Set in 1957, Ifkovic’s excellent 10th and final Edna Ferber mystery (after 2018’s Mood Indigo) takes the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer to Alaska, the setting of her forthcoming novel, Ice Palace. In Fairbanks, Edna meets old, cantankerous Jack Mabie,
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