COMING SPRING 2027
Boulder, Colorado, 1948.
Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, takes on the challenge of solving a shocking murder in a small college town--a case plagued by too many 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.
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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.
Mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason, takes on the challenge of solving a shocking murder in a small college town--a case plagued by too many 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.
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
