Brenda Rossini

This is the story of Oscar Slater, a Jewish immigrant in Glasgow, Scotland and two fellow Scottish scammers, Helen Lambie and Patrick Nugent. In the Christmas season of 1908, the trio conspired to rob an elderly, wealthy lady of her diamonds, and, in the course of which burglary, Oscar Slater...

Here are a few essays about puzzlers in and about Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories: "The Devil's Foot" and the author's cautious inserts of the Christian sacraments he learnt as a boy; a liturgical opposite - the Hebrew rabbi in "Scandal in Bohemia"; the "Boscombe Valley" murder...

Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's most outstanding memorial grounds. It's like a little town with a private lake and mausoleums lining its streets. The funerary architecture is spectacular. Here lie Chicago's deceased: baseball players, boxers, ballerinas, fire victims, detectives...