COMING SPRING 2027
Boulder, Colorado, 1948.
Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, sets out to solve a shocking murder in a small college town--a case plagued by conflicting clues, a rabid press corps, and an army of eager amateur detectives. A tour de force of narrative nonfiction, AMATEUR HOUR transports readers back to a key moment in the evolution of true crime, to a red-hot homicide investigation at the crossroads of fact and fiction, forensic science and quackery, hard evidence and reckless overreach--and arrives, at last, at the truth.
Publication date: March 2, 2027. Advance orders now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Post Hill Press, and wherever fine books are sold.
Boulder, Colorado, 1948.
Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, sets out to solve a shocking murder in a small college town--a case plagued by conflicting clues, a rabid press corps, and an army of eager amateur detectives. A tour de force of narrative nonfiction, AMATEUR HOUR transports readers back to a key moment in the evolution of true crime, to a red-hot homicide investigation at the crossroads of fact and fiction, forensic science and quackery, hard evidence and reckless overreach--and arrives, at last, at the truth.
Publication date: March 2, 2027. Advance orders now via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Post Hill Press, and wherever fine books are sold.
How the author of the Perry Mason novels got embroiled in a real-life murder mystery--with startling results.
