by E.L. Doctorow
Here's another example of a mainstream literary author trying genre fiction. What you end up with is a dull, implausible mess, with very good period details. Perhaps the important thing to remember when dealing with such stock elements as a mad scientist, is that the author has to have a sense of ...
Book Circle Reads 21Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Description: “An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”–The Washington Post Book WorldOne rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton, a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of w...