Ambrose ?Bitter? Bierce, San Francisco's infamous and legendary newspaperman and sometime sleuth is hardly surprised to be hired by William Randolph Hearst when

Bierce and his sidekick Tom Redmond follow a trail of murder that leads from a sinister British yachtsman to a photographer of female flesh. Bierce's unraveling

The Morton Street Slasher has been leaving the corpses of his victims around San Francisco's Union Square. On the women's naked bodies are spade playing cards.

Oakley Hall is a master craftsman. . . . Intrigue will keep you turning the pages. Amy Tan From Thomas Pynchon to Richard Ford, Amy Tan to Diane Johnson, the li

In this compulsively readable mystery, the hero is the historical figure Ambrose Bierce, William Randolph Hearst's star reporter and San Francisco's most celebr