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Ed Ifkovic
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
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A Girl Holding Lilacs
- Nov-2002
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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...
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A Connecticut Christmas
- Oct-2004
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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...
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David At Thirty
- Nov-2005
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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...
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Escape Artist
- Jun-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Make Believe
- Nov-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Tommy's Path
- May-2013
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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...
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Downtown Strut
- Aug-2013
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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The Colored Artist
- Feb-2014
- / Literary
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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...
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Final Curtain
- Jun-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Talking of Michelangelo
- Oct-2014
- / General Fiction
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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...
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Missing in Action
- Feb-2015
- / Literary
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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...
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Suppertime
- Mar-2015
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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...
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Cafe Europa
- May-2015
- / Historical Mystery
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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 ...
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Cold Morning
- Mar-2016
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Soutine in Exile
- Oct-2017
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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...
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Mood Indigo
- Jan-2018
- / Historical Mystery
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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...
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Too Many Cooks
- Dec-2019
- / Mystery
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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...
