Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades
- ISBN-10
- 0140288600
- ISBN-13
- 9780140288605
- Category
- Historical fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-21
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Oakley M. Hall
Description
A portrait of writer Ambrose Bierce and a glimpse of life in 1880s San Francisco mark a mystery in which newspaperman Tom Redmond investigates a series of murders of women, leading him to conspiracies involving the railroads and state politics. Reprint.
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