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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Full Series List in Order

An Edna Ferber Mystery

1 - Lone Star (Apr-2009)
2 - Escape Artist (Jun-2011)
3 - Make Believe (Nov-2012)
4 - Downtown Strut (Aug-2013)
5 - Final Curtain (Jun-2014)
6 - Cafe Europa (May-2015)
7 - Cold Morning (Mar-2016)
8 - Old News (Mar-2017)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox, one of the Victorian world's most popular poets, penned the famous line: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone."

    Born on an impoverished Wisconsin farm, Ella Wheeler Wilcox hungered for fame and fortune. ...



  • A Girl Holding Lilacs tells the story of the young daughter of a struggling immigrant family from Croatia, living on a small farm in Connecticut during the bleak, Depression-bound 1930s. The family is isolated not only from its cherished Old Count...



  • Christmas in Connecticut!These words immediately evoke warm images of stained-glass churches on snow-blanketed town greens, merry bands of roving carolers, sleigh bells ringing in the icy night, and candlelit fir trees decorated with popcorn and cran...



  • David Tomjanovich is Turning 30 David at Thirty tells the story of a young man who likes his life in order-a man not comfortable with surprises or the mercurial twists of fate. But one September, as he begins his thirtieth year, his life is set to un...





  • With a foreword by David Morrell"A pure delight." -- JEFFERY DEAVER, New York Times bestselling authorIt's 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warne...



  • In 1904 Edna Ferber is a nineteen-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin Crescent, an occupation that many townspeople, including her own family, consider scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini, in tow...



  • In 1951 Edna Ferber travels to Hollywood to support a friend blacklisted because of the Communist witch-hunt. Against the backdrop of the premiere of Show Boat, she becomes involved with Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra and their circle of friends. When...



  • On a snowy winter night Bartholomew Judd happens upon a mysterious saltbox homestead on a narrow lane called Tommy’s Path in a small Connecticut village. That spring he and his wife Rebecca are living in the old home, leaving behind a life in Manha...






  • A wintry Manhattan, 1927, finds Edna Ferber preparing for “the Ferber season on Broadway.” The bestselling author has two shows opening back to back. On December 27, the musical adaptation of Show Boat by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern. Decemb...



  • In 1881 Charles Ethan Porter, a black artist from Hartford, Connecticut, traveled to Paris to study art, carrying with him an enthusiastic letter of introduction from Samuel Clemens, Hartford’s most famous resident. During the next three years Port...



  • Who murdered the handsome young actor? And why? In 1940, against the chilling backdrop of Hitler’s rise and the specter of another war, Edna Ferber decides to follow an old dream: to act on the stage. Selecting The Royal Family, the comedy she wrot...



  • In this third volume of memories, the author depicts some of the people he’s met along the way. These anecdotal sketches illuminate some famous folks, to be sure -- encounters with writers like Walter Tevis (The Hustler), Robert Penn Warren (All th...



  • Novelist Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road) once wrote in a celebratory letter to the author: “Your strength as a writer is creating a deceptively quiet chronicle of harsh events.” This collection of twelve disparate short stories reinforces Yate...



  • In June of 1953 Mark Antonich celebrates his twelfth birthday -- and the beginning of a long summer he hopes will be filled with backyard reading, swimming in the town pool, and hanging out with his next-door cousin Tony Zivich. An ordinary summer in...



  • In 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of her dead father and to see the sights. Author Edna is fascinated by ancient Emperor Franz Joseph ...



  • January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of “the crime of the century.” And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America’s hero, discovers that his twenty...



  • A sweltering July in Chicago, 1923. Edna Ferber, now a famous short-story writer, is supposed to be researching the novel that will become So Big, her Pulitzer-Prize winner. With her mother, Julia, she spends the week visiting her mother's old childh...



  • In the summer of 1943, artist Chaim Soutine is living in the small French village of Champigny-sur-Veude with his lover, Marie-Berthe Aurenche. All of France is Nazi-occupied, curfews enforced, Jews rounded up and sent to camps, and the Gestapo has b...






  • She was 1932 Broadway's newest sensation. Then she was murdered. Three years after the Crash that ushered in the Great Depression, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Edna Ferber finds herself a guest at Noel Coward's lavish birthday pa...



  • "The Arctic trails have their secret talesThat would make your blood run cold." -- Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee"Jack Mabie claims to be the meanest man in Alaska, yet the old sourdough seems to be just one of the crusty geezers in e...



  • On the night of his retirement party from a local factory, Felix Calico is found stabbed to death in his driveway. A notorious womanizer for much of his lifetime, he made a host of enemies in the small town of North Farms, just outside New Haven, Con...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ed Ifkovic has published 22 books.

Ed Ifkovic does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Too Many Cooks, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Ed Ifkovic, Ella Moon, was published in May 2001.

Yes. Ed Ifkovic has 1 series.