This Week's Acquisitions
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Mystery of Cloomber (Dover, 2009). Gothic thriller featuring, among other things, Buddhists (but no Holmes). Reprint of the 1889 edition. (Lift Bridge)
- Heinrich Boll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or, How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead, trans. Leila Vennewitz (Penguin, 2009). Despite the academic-sounding subtitle, this is Boll's deconstruction of the detective novel, featuring a young woman under siege by journalists. First published in 1974. (Lift Bridge)
- Bruce Duffy, Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud (Doubleday, 2011). What it says in the subtitle: a historical novel about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel about John Wilkes Booth (NYRB, 2011). Also what it says in the subtitle: Booth assassinates Lincoln, major fallout results. Initially published in 1961, and #2 in the short-lived Stacton's "American Triptych." (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ron Hansen, Exiles (Picador, 2009). Historical novel about the events memorialized in Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland." (eBay)