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Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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 conspiracy and corruption at every turn.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: February 01, 2000

ISBN: 0140288600

ISBN 13: 9780140288605

Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades

3.2/5 ( ratings)

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 conspiracy and corruption at every turn.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: February 01, 2000

ISBN: 0140288600

ISBN 13: 9780140288605

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