Gordon McAlpine

The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe

1 - The Tell-Tale Start (Jan-2013)
2 - Once Upon a Midnight Eerie (Apr-2014)
3 - The Pet and the Pendulum (Apr-2015)

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  Joy in Mudville
  

  • May-1989
  • / Fantasy
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  JOY / / It's 1932 and a new star has risen from the east, arching toward Los Angeles. / / A man, woman and child set off by rail from Chicago to follow the star. / / Along the way they'll meet figures from the pantheon of the American imagination -- ...

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  The Persistence of Memory
  

  • 1997
  • / Fantasy
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  The setting is a wood at the turn of the century. A stranger, with the face of an old man but the innocence of a child, is pulled unconscious from a stream. When he comes to, he has no recollection of how he came to be there or who he is. His rescuer...

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  Mystery Box
  

  • Sep-2003
  • / Mystery
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  Mystery Box is the story of Franklin Dixon and Carolyn Keene, authors of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. It?s true that these two never actually lived in the real world, but the mystery of their identities has intrigued readers for years. Go...

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  The Tell-Tale Start
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Action Adventure
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  The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe - 1
  

  Meet Edgar and Allan Poe -- twelve-year-old identical twins, the great-great-great-great-grandnephews of Edgar Allan Poe. They look and act so much alike that they're almost one mischievous, prank-playing boy in two bodies. When their beloved black c...

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  Once Upon a Midnight Eerie
  

  • Apr-2014
  • / Action Adventure
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  The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe - 2
  

  In The Tell-Tale Start, Edgar and Allan Poe (great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe) managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who was (and is) determined to kill just one of them, in order to prove a...

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  The Pet and the Pendulum
  

  • Apr-2015
  • / Action Adventure
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  The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe - 3
  

  In The Tell-Tale Start, twins Edgar and Allan Poe foiled the nefarious Professor Perry, who wanted to use them in his deadly quantum entanglement experiment. In Once Upon a Midnight Eerie, they took on his equally evil mother and daughter. Now, in Th...

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  Woman with a Blue Pencil
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Private Investigator
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  “Woman with a Blue Pencil is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel -- something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gord...

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  Holmes Entangled
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / Private Investigator
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  From the Edgar®-nominated author of Hammett Unwritten and Woman with a Blue Pencil comes a startling meta-fiction tale told in the voice of Sherlock Holmes. Set in 1920s' London, Cambridge, and Paris, Holmes's final adventure leads him through labyr...

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  Dorothy G., Kansas
  

  • Jan-2020
  • / Mystery
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  After the Storm
  

  • Jun-2024
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Gripping and emotionally riveting, this whimsical tale is an empowering and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz where one little girl is forced to face head on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late 19th century.Kansas,1896. After a tornado destr...

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