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Ace Atkins – Devil’s Garden

(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 9) The 1921 rape/manslaughter trial of silent film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle provides the gritty backdrop for Atkins’s outstanding crime novel, in which Dashiell Hammett, then a Pinkerton operative living in San Francisco,...

Ace Atkins – An Introduction

Ace Atkins is the author of six novels, including his latest, Wicked City, from G.P. Putnam’s Sons. A former journalist who cut his teeth as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune, he published his first novel, Crossroad Blues, at 27 and became a...