COMING SPRING 2027
Boulder, Colorado, 1948.
Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, takes on the challenge of solving a shocking murder in a small college town--a case with too many clues, one that quickly turns into a stunning display of rabid reporting and wayward amateur sleuthing. An archival reporting tour de force, AMATEUR HOUR will transport readers back to a key moment in the transformation of true crime into mass entertainment, to a red-hot homicide investigation at the crossroads of fact and fiction, forensic science and quackery, hard evidence and reckless overreach--and arrive, at last, at the truth.
Publication date: March 2, 2027. Advance orders now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine books are sold.
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The astonishing true story of a district attorney who declared war on con men, Klansmen, and a corrupt police force--a battle for the soul of an American city, amid the social and political turmoil of the 1920s.
Boulder, Colorado, 1948.
Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, takes on the challenge of solving a shocking murder in a small college town--a case with too many clues, one that quickly turns into a stunning display of rabid reporting and wayward amateur sleuthing. An archival reporting tour de force, AMATEUR HOUR will transport readers back to a key moment in the transformation of true crime into mass entertainment, to a red-hot homicide investigation at the crossroads of fact and fiction, forensic science and quackery, hard evidence and reckless overreach--and arrive, at last, at the truth.
NOW AVAILABLE:
The astonishing true story of a district attorney who declared war on con men, Klansmen, and a corrupt police force--a battle for the soul of an American city, amid the social and political turmoil of the 1920s.
"One heroic American's battle against the forces of darkness and hate. As important today as the day it happened. Vividly told. Essential reading."
-- Michael Benson, author of Gangsters vs Nazis
