Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades
A Mystery Novel
- ISBN
- 9780140288605
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction
About the book
Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades by Oakley Hall is a fun historical mystery set in late-19th-century San Francisco, featuring the famous American writer Ambrose Bierce as an amateur detective. When a brutal murder shakes the city, Bierce uses his sharp wits to investigate the crime, leading him through a dangerous web of high-society secrets, corrupt railroad moguls, and the gritty local underworld.