Oakley M. Hall
Author
Series
[Ambrose Bierce mystery] volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ambrose G. ("Almighty God") Bierce, San Francisco's legendary newspaperman and sometime-sleuth, is hardly surprised to be consulted by William Randolph Hearst when the latter's mistress finds herself photographically compromised. But in the rough 1890s Bay Area streets, Hearst's isn't the only case on the boil. Bierce and his sidekick Tom Redmond follow a trail of murder that leads from a sinister British yachtsman to a photographer of female flesh,...
Author
Series
Hall Oakley M volume 1
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c1998.
Language
English
Description
A witty mystery in 1880s San Francisco featuring the anti-feminist journalist, Ambrose Bierce, as he investigates the murder of prostitutes. The tale is narrated by his young assistant, Tom Redmond.
3) Warlock
Author
Publisher
New York Review
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named...
Series
Criterion collection volume 494
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A talented but self-involved downhill skier claims victory at the expense of emotional and family attachments.
5) Warlock
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A sheriff is brought in to clean up the crime-ridden town of Warlock.