Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: Chicago

<p>Around the world the name "Chicago" still conjures up images of the Roaring Twenties, cops and robbers, and Al Capone. Using this guide you can follow in the footsteps of more than 75 authors and sleuths from over 100 mysteries. Each walking tour covers a specific Chicago neighborhood, providing a map, must-see places and restaurants, all from Chicago mysteries, together with a special index of people, places and mysteries covered. Mystery Readers' Walking Guide: Chicago won Malice Domestic's Agatha Award (and teapot) for Best Non-Fiction.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Dale, Alzina

History & Criticism

iUniverse

Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: New York

Revised for the 1993 centennial celebration of the birth of Dorothy L. Sayers, this biography describes a life profuse with literary products as rich and varied as her past. Maker and Craftsman examines Sayers' enthusiasms and creativity, her miraculous gift of language, her sly sense of humor and her brilliant intellect.Best known for the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories that have charmed and fascinated fans for several generations, she also wrote plays for the B.B.C. and London's West End, translated Dante's Divine Comedy and still found time to speak and write forthrightly in defense of her beliefs, the arts, and women's rights." Dale has chosen a subject who is a woman of her place and time, and yet far exceeding both she writes with scholarship, and a vigour and expansive enthusiasm, a gale of life not unlike Dorothy's own."-Anne Perry, British Mystery Author

Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

<p>An intriguing 13 walks in London, featuring mystery writers and their detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Lord Peter Wimsee and Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgleish. An Ideal book for exploring London by foot or snug in your favorite armchair. Includes places of interest and restaurant suggestions.</p>

MYSTERY READER'S WALKING GUIDE: LONDON: SECOND EDITION

Travel

Europe

Gilbert Keith Chesterton has been the subject of several biographies, but none as comprehensive as The Outline of Sanity, A Biography of G. K. Chesterton by Alzina Stone Dale.-THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"A biography in which the imaginative and intellectual stature of the man is seen in its full measure."-SUNDAY TIMES (UK)

The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton