Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings Paperback - 2002
by Hall, Oakley
- Used
In this compulsively readable mystery, the hero is the historical figure Ambrose Bierce, William Randolph Hearst's star reporter and San Francisco's most celebrated writer at the turn of the twentieth century. Bierce is asked to investigate the disappearance of a Hawaiian princess attached to the entourage of King Kalakaua, who is slowly dying in the Palace Hotel's Royal Suite. As Bierce and his protégé, Tom Redmond, search for the missing princess, San Francisco plays host to a throng of Hawaiian royal courtiers and counselors embroiled in a swirl of political intrigue surrounding the successor to the throne.
Intelligent, gripping, and often very funny, this wonderfully tangled tale of murder and mystery is sure to satisfy.
"Oakley Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance. It's a tool perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890s, at once gilded and rough hewn, brawling and refined." (Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
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- Title Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings
- Author Hall, Oakley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-07-30
- Bookseller's Inventory # M01E-01809
- ISBN 9780142001332 / 0142001333
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.94 x 4.24 x 0.84 in (17.63 x 10.77 x 2.13 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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