During his less than successful reading tour of America, Charles Dickens finds himself sharing dilapidated quarters--and swapping story ideas--with Edgar Allan Poe, who has faked his own death in order to escape the Irish mob. By the author of White Stone Day. 10,000 first printing.

An investigation into the murder of a quack psychic leads London journalist Edmund Whitty to Oxford, where he encounters a brilliant and eccentric cleric with a passion for croquet, telling stories, and taking artistic pictures of little girls, who may or may not be involved with a ring of murderous pornographers, in a mystery set against the backdrop of Victorian England

Interviewing a convicted killer who is awaiting execution, crime writer Henry Owler wonders if the man's claims about his innocence may be true in the wake of a series of killings similar to those for which he was apprehended. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.