<div>An American expat gets tangled in the case of an accused killer in this historical mystery set in Edwardian London. Denton, the American Civil War veteran turned expat author, knows better than to go around doing people favors. But love will make chumps of us all, and for love of Janet Striker, Denton is making inquiries on behalf of the extremely tedious Mrs Snokes. Her husband, she declares, is innocent of the hideous charges made against him. The newspapers, however, think differently: They have dubbed him the &ldquo;Barnsbury Butcher.&rdquo; Then, for the love of an old friend, Denton has taken on a chore for the man&rsquo;s brattish son, entangled in a shameful liaison with a woman of beauty, spirit, and the ability to wreck his tidy little upper-class future. As Denton juggles these two increasingly precarious cases, he&rsquo;ll hardly have time to write that new novella&mdash;though not for want of material.</div>

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The Backward Boy

<div>A puzzling note from a troubled woman draws an American expat author into the lawless precincts of Victorian London in this historical mystery. London, 1901. Denton, the notorious American writer, has returned to his adoptive home after several months in one of the less-delightful corners of the Continent. He&rsquo;s greeted by the usual letters from fans craving more tales of adventure&mdash;and one peculiar note: &ldquo;I believe that someone threatens to harm me, and I do not know quite what to do.&rdquo; Though it is signed &ldquo;Mary Thomason,&rdquo; it was sent by someone else. And it is more than two months old. Much as he&rsquo;d like to deny it, Denton is a Victorian gentlemen to the marrow. And he cannot deny a damsel in distress. His search for the mysterious Miss Thomason will take him deep into London&rsquo;s &ldquo;bohemian&rdquo; quarters&mdash;as well as the darker corners of his own soul. &ldquo;Other authors have set mysteries in the same period and place, but Cameron stands out by virtue of his fine plotting and distinctive characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Bohemian Girl

<div>An American author in Victorian London investigates the rumored reemergence of Jack the Ripper in this historical mystery series debut. London, 1900. In the dying days of the old queen&rsquo;s reign, the city is filled with imperial ambition, scientific revolution, and the shrill blast of factory whistles. For an American named Denton, it&rsquo;s the perfect place to disappear. A former frontier sheriff turned novelist, all he wants is to escape his own memories. But now he must face another dark specter from the past. Jack the Ripper hasn&rsquo;t been heard of for more than fifteen years. But at least one ferrety little fellow claims to have seen him at his grisly work. And when a prostitute turns up dead, Denton can&rsquo;t shake the notion that the frightened man may have something to be frightened about. Nor can he shake his old instinct to see justice done.</div>

The Frightened Man

<div>The expat author travels to Italy, where communing with the dead can lead to murder, in this historical mystery by the author of The Second Woman. England in the chilly winter of 1902 is captive to a new craze: Mediums and psychics are springing up like toadstools after a rainstorm, and the public is rushing to consult them, thirsty for intimations of the Great Beyond. It&rsquo;s no surprise that a man like Denton has his doubts: An American Yankee in King Edward&#39;s city, he is a walking representative of the &ldquo;Show Me&rdquo; state. Nevertheless, Denton agreed to write a book about ghosts and hauntings, and has taken himself to Italy to do it. Napoli may be bella, but it offers Denton only boredom and frustration, until a dead body shows up to make life interesting. As he tries to divine the killer&rsquo;s identity, the cold hard clues give him a new angle on his new spiritualist friends.</div>

The Haunted Martyr

<div>An American sleuth in Victorian London investigates the murder of a young Jewish woman in this &ldquo;complex and gripping period whodunit&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). London, 1901. With the Boer War raging, England&#39;s air is crackling with political intrigue. The rumors are so thick that the newly formed British Secret Service can barely keep a lid on. But it&#39;s not South Africa that is on everyone&#39;s lips. Rather, it&#39;s The Jewish Question: The armies of Antisemitism are on the march, even as the call to Zionism echoes through London&#39;s East End. Denton, the famous American expat author, prefers to keep the conflict at arm&rsquo;s length&mdash;until his neighbor&rsquo;s murder brings it home. He could stay out of it. He should stay out of it. But . . . but he rather liked the woman. And the police are clueless. So Denton yet again sticks his pointy American nose into England&#39;s business. And he keeps it there, even as the price for asking questions gets perilously high.</div>

The Second Woman

<div>An expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and sheriff turned novelist living in Edwardian London follows a deadly trail in search of a missing box. It&rsquo;s true that Denton and Henry James are both American writers now living in London, but they have little else in common: James has the gravitas (and perhaps the pomposity) of a living legend, master of the literary kingdom, while Denton . . . well, he&rsquo;s scruffy and often covered in dog hair. But he does have this knack for sorting out problems, and James has just such a problem. There was a box, you see, and now it&rsquo;s gone missing, and in the box were certain letters that, if made public, could be most embarrassing. Most embarrassing indeed. Praise for the Denton Mysteries&ldquo;Cameron . . . paints a striking portrait of London, and Denton is a hero whose unheroic side only makes his character more appealing.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews on The Frightened Man&ldquo;This is no dry, stuffy, repressed Edwardian depiction of events. There are beautiful, concise and accurate descriptions, comedy scenes and credible characters in this novel, which skillfully combines mystery and history. &rdquo;&mdash;Historical Novel Society on The Second Woman</div>

The Past Master

<div>A crime novel featuring a former lawman turned novelist and sleuth, whose latest investigation takes him into the murderous rivalries of academic life. When Denton hears there&rsquo;s a fellow missing from Oxford, it takes him a while to grasp that &ldquo;fellow,&rdquo; in this instance, means some sort of academic character, and not, you know, a fellow. A bloke. Never mind: He&rsquo;s happy to set off for Oxford and poke around. He imagines a holiday, a peaceful sojourn among the hushed libraries and the famous dreaming spires. It will be so different from frantic, filthy London, muscling its way into the twentieth century . . . Turns out, those dreaming spires hide nightmares as wicked as anything in the city&#39;s back alleys. He stumbles in particular into the web of vicious rivalries otherwise known as the School of Archeology, with hatreds rooted in the famous discovery of the ancient city of Troy. Grisly suicides, terrifying curses, threats of eye-popping violence&mdash;it&rsquo;s the stuff of penny dreadfuls. No wonder the fellow has disappeared; Denton wouldn&rsquo;t mind following his lead and hopping a train back to London. Praise for Kenneth Cameron&rsquo;s Denton series: &ldquo;Fine plotting and distinctive characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Sure to appeal to readers who love historical mysteries intertwined with edgy interpersonal relationships&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;Cameron paints a striking portrait of London, and Denton is a hero whose unheroic side only makes his character more appealing.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Kenneth Cameron
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Books By Kenneth Cameron (7 Books)

The Backward Boy

The Bohemian Girl

The Frightened Man

The Haunted Martyr

The Second Woman

The Past Master

The Oxford Fellow

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