Ambrose Bierce and the queen of spades

Oakley Hall

Original title: Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades

first published 1998 University of California Press, 1998 261 pages

When the Morton Street Slasher leaves the corpses of his victims on the tangled gaslit streets near San Francisco's Union Square, he marks each body with a playing card. Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, the city's famed newspaperman, immediately blames the rash of murders on his sworn enemies, the Southern Pacific Railway magnates. Bierce and his young protege at the Hornet, Tom Redmond, set out to solve the case, uncovering...

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Ambrose Bierce and the queen of spades edition · 2000 · Penguin Books · 311 pages · 9780140288605
Ambrose Bierce and the queen of spades edition · 1998 · University of California Press · 261 pages

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