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Ace Atkins is an American journalist and novelist known for his crime fiction and historical thrillers. A former reporter for The Tampa Tribune and Pulitzer Prize finalist, he has written both original works and continuations of Robert B.
Known for: Devil’s Garden
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Devil’s Garden
Set in 1920s San Francisco, this historical crime novel follows private investigator Dashiell Hammett as he becomes entangled in the real-life Fatty Arbuckle scandal. Blending fact and fiction, the story explores corruption, celebrity, and justice in the early days of Hollywood and the American legal system.
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The Birth of a Scandal: Hammett Enters the Scene
The novel opens with San Francisco dressed in postwar ambition: jazz fills the hotels, and newspaper headlines run faster than the truth can keep up. The city has always been a place of reinvention, but by 1921 it has also become the stage for America’s first major celebrity trial. Roscoe “Fatty” Ar...
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The Theater of Public Opinion
If the trial of Roscoe Arbuckle reveals anything, it is that the greatest power of the 1920s did not belong to the courts or even the police — it belonged to the press. And Ace Atkins brings this world alive with a journalist’s precision: the headlines grow bolder, pamphlets circulate, gossip suppla...
From Devil’s Garden
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Ace Atkins is an American journalist and novelist known for his crime fiction and historical thrillers. A former reporter for The Tampa Tribune and Pulitzer Prize finalist, he has written both original works and continuations of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series.
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