Daniel Stashower
Author · 10 books
Daniel Stashower is the author of The Boy Genius and The Mogul as well as the Edgar Award-winning Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. He is also the author of five mystery novels, the most recent of which is The Houdini Specter. Stashower is a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. A freelance journalist since 1986, Stashower's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic Traveller and Connoisseur. He lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, D.C.
Series
Books
The Hour of Peril
The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
2013
Harry Houdini Mysteries
The Houdini Specter
2001
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Ectoplasmic Man
1985
Harry Houdini Mysteries
The Floating Lady Murder
2000
The Boy Genius and the Mogul
The Untold Story of Television
2002
Harry Houdini Mysteries
The Dime Museum Murders
1999
American Demon
Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
2022
Teller of Tales
The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
1999
The Beautiful Cigar Girl
Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
2006
Elephants in the Distance
1989
