Fergus Hume is remembered now only as the writer of best-selling detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the first to sell more than half a million copies of one novel, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). The customary judgment--reflected in Howard...
THE STORY SO FAR: It is 1803, and as the French Emperor Napoleon conquers much of Europe, people in England fear their island nation will be next. Jim's father packs up his family and moves north to Scotland. A man on horseback, calling himself...
IN THE MINUTES before the wedding ceremony, I wait downstairs in Pilgrim Hall with the groom and the groomsmen. Upstairs the sanctuary is lovely, with freshly vacuumed carpeting and wedding flowers that are a cut above the usual Sunday morning carnation extravaganza. But down...
How perfect, for starters, that the surname be Churchill. How many of us, in the aftermath of 9/11, to the extent we could think at all, thought of Winston Churchill during Britain's grim days and longed for his steely words.But we had our own Churchill:...
