Prof Mirabilis the inventor tested his new birdcage lock in an empty locked room. When he came back the cage was open & the bird was out. No murder in this Twistery. No crime of any sort, unless we count a crime against commonsense. For a man with so many letters after his name (BSc, …
Prof Mirabilis the inventor tested his new birdcage lock in an empty locked room. When he came back the cage was open & the bird was out.
First copies of my new book, THE CLEANSING FLAMES, due out May 19, 2011 (available for pre-order now). The all important spine-view:
This is the trailer for my next Porfiry Petrovich novel, THE CLEANSING FLAMES, due out in May: To make it (yes, I made it myself), I had to burn a copy of the novel, which was a particularly hard thing to do, as it doesn’t exist as a book yet. Alex, my tireless publicity maven …
NOMINATED FOR THE 2011 CWA ELLIS PETERS AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL! Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry …