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Daniel Stashower is the author of The Boy Genius and The Mogul as well as the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is also the author of five mystery novels, the most recent of which is The Houdini Specter.

 Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashowers articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur.

He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.
 

Genres: Historical Mystery, Mystery
 
Novels
   Elephants in the Distance (1989)
   The Beautiful Cigar Girl (2006)
     aka Edgar Allan Poe and the Murder of Mary Rogers
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Anthologies edited
   Murder, My Dear Watson (2002) (with Martin H Greenberg and Jon L Lellenberg)
   The Ghosts of Baker Street (2006) (with Martin H Greenberg and Jon L Lellenberg)
   Sherlock Holmes in America (2009) (with Martin H Greenberg and Jon L Lellenberg)
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The Nightingale Affair (2023)
Tim Mason
"The Nightingale Affair is the best kind of historical thriller -- beautifully written, expertly plotted, and brimming with vivid characters and detail. Tim Mason made a brilliant debut with The Darwin Affair, and this one is even better."
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Death and the Conjuror (2022)
(Joseph Spector, book 1)
Tom Mead
"With a deviously intricate locked-room plot, Death and the Conjuror unfolds as both an elegant tribute and a cunning update of the classic 'impossible crime' story. Somewhere, the great John Dickson Carr is smiling."
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Observations by Gaslight (2021)
Lyndsay Faye
"Lyndsay Faye, one of the most exhilarating voices in fiction today, has come home to Baker Street in this essential new collection. Read at once if convenient -- if inconvenient read all the same."

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