Fans of Steve Hockensmith's Holmes on the Range, this is your lucky day! "Old Red" and "Big Red" are back in the "detectifying" business in On the Wrong Track, which is hot off the presses. I so thoroughly enjoyed the first book, finding it the freshest take on the Holmes mystique in years.
If you want a real treat, try it on CD. Read by William Dufris, it is an absolute delight.
Fans of Edgar Allan Poe, here is yet another take on the Poe mystique for you: The Blackest Bird by Joel Rose. The pivotal figures are Poe himself and Jacob Hays, the city's 69 year-old high constable. We are back in the long, hot summer of 1841 and the pitiful remains of Mary Rogers have just been found. A fictionalized account that is a perfect follow up to Daniel Stashower's The Beautiful Cigar Girl. I found both accounts equally riveting.