This Week's Acquisitions
- Michael Dibdin, The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (Vintage, 1996). Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper...or is it? Dibdin's first novel, originally published in 1978. (Borders)
- Nina Revoyr, Southland (Akashic, 2008). A young Japanese-American woman tries to find the connection between her late grandfather and four African-American teens killed during the Watts Riots. (Borders)
- Thomas McLean, Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2010). Supplements Judith Bailey Slagle's The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie (1999). See Slagle's brief overview of Baillie's life here, as well as Ken A. Bugajski's bibliography of her work. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)