Gordon mcalpine biography
- Gordon McAlpine is the author of Hammett Unwritten and numerous other novels, as well as a middle-grade trilogy, The Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe. Additionally, he is coauthor of the nonfiction book The Way of Baseball, Finding Stillness.
- In his twenties, he developed video games and wrote scripts for film and television.
- Gordon McAlpine is the Edgar Award nominated author of the literary mystery novels, Holmes Entangled, Woman with a Blue Pencil, and Hammett Unwritten.
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Gordon McAlpine Books In Order
Publication Order of The Misadventures of Edgar and Allan Poe Books
| The Tell-Tale Start | (2013) |
| Once Upon a Midnight Eerie | (2014) |
| The Pet and the Pendulum | (2015) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Joy in Mudville | (1989) |
| The Persistence of Memory | (1997) |
| Mystery Box | (2003) |
| Woman with a Blue Pencil | (2015) |
| Holmes Entangled | (2018) |
| Dorothy G., Kansas | (2021) |
| After Oz | (2024) |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Way of Baseball | (2011) |
Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books
| San Francisco Noir | (2002) | ||
| Seattle Noir | (2003) | ||
| Bronx Noir | (2003) | ||
| Brooklyn Noir | (2004) | ||
| Brooklyn Noir 2 | (2005) | ||
| Chicago Noir | (2005) | ||
| Manhattan Noir | (2006) | ||
| Miami Noir: The Classics | (2006) | ||
| D.C. Noir | (2006) | ||
| Baltimore Noir | (2006) | ||
| Twin Cities Noir | (2006) | ||
| London Noir | (2006) | ||
| New Orleans Noir | (2007) | ||
| Los Angeles Noir | (2007) | ||
| Wall Street Noir | (2007) | ||
| Havana Noir | (2007) | ||
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Gordon McAlpineLove, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!Gordon McAlpine was the author of Girl with a Blue Pencil and Holmes Entangled and a contributor to Orange County Noir. An Edgar Award finalist, he taught creative writing and literature at U.C. Irvine, UCLA., and Chapman University. Log In to see more information about Gordon McAlpine
SeriesBooks:After Oz, August 2024Hardcover / e-Book Woman With A Blue Pencil, November 2015 Paperback / e-Book
Gordon McAlpineGordon McAlpine has been described by Publisher’s Weekly as “a gifted stylist, with clean, clear and muscular prose.” A native Californian, he attended the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine. In November 2015, Seventh Street Books published McAlpine’s literary mystery novel, Woman With a Blue Pencil, about which Publishers Weekly wrote in a starred review: “McAlpine’s greatest accomplishment is that the book works both as a conventional mystery story and as a deconstruction of the genre’s ideology: whichever strand readers latch on to, the parallel stories pack a brutal punch.” Joyce Carol Oates wrote that Woman with a Blue Pencil is a novel, “that Kafka, Borges, and Nabokov, as well as Dashiell Hammett, would have appreciated.” In February 2013, Seventh Street Books published Hammett Unwritten, a literary mystery novel that revolves around the life of the great detective novelist Dashiell Hammett. Reviews were stellar (Otto Penzler called the book “Spectacularly original”) and the novel appeared on top ten lists for Copyright ©mudmind.pages.dev 2025 |