Gordon McAlpine, Author Peter Owen Publishers $29.95 (156p) ISBN 978-0-7206-1047-5
From its initial event--the appearance of a mysterious stranger in an alternate Langsdon, Ky., circa 1901--this slender but heavy-handed novel places itself in the fable mode, part Cinderella, part Southern gothic. The stranger is an (apparently)...
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Gordon McAlpine, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-525-24748-7
Set in the 1930s, this gracefully written first novel opens with the World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago. On a rooftop across the street, 14-year-old orphan Buddy Easter watches the game with his invisible friend, Abner Doubleday. Outside the...
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Gordon McAlpine. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $13.95 trade paper (190p) ISBN 978-1-63388-088-7
McAlpine (Hammett Unwritten as Owen Fitzstephen) once again ventures successfully into metafiction, jumping back and forth between two separate manuscripts while delivering a masterly critique of the mystery novel. Author Takumi Sato must revise the
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Gordon McAlpine. Seventh Street, $13.95 trade paper (215p) ISBN 978-1-63388-207-2
Readers curious about an elderly Sherlock Holmes who was never a Victorian gentleman may enjoy this offbeat pastiche from Edgar-finalist McAlpine (Woman with a Blue Pencil). In 1943, Jorge Luis Borges hires an unnamed PI in Buenos Aires to read what
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Gordon McAlpine, illustrated by Sam Zuppardi. Viking, $15.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-78491-2
McAlpine (Mystery Box) opens the Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe series by introducing the 12-year-old great-great-great-great-grandnephews of famed author Edgar Allan Poe. More than just identical twins, Edgar and Allan are literally of one...
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Gordon McAlpine, read by Arte Johnson. Listening Library, unabridged, three CDs, 3.25 hrs., $27 ISBN 978-0-385-36806-3
In a new twist on an old favorite, featuring 12-year-olds Edgar and Allen Poe, McAlpine gives us an entertaining and original work of YA fiction. Narrator Arte Johnson delivers a splendid reading that whisks listeners—both young and old—away to a...
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Gordon McAlpine. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-63910-785-8
McAlpine’s sluggish latest (after Holmes Entangled) reimagines The Wizard of Oz as a psychological thriller. Eleven-year-old Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, go missing during a terrible tornado in 1896. Both are found unharmed four days later in a...
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