Cafe Europa

Ed Ifkovic, Edward Ifkovic, Ph.D.

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Poisoned Pen Press
05 May 2015

Historical mysteries

Series: Edna Ferber Mysteries

In 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of her dead father and to see the sights. Author Edna is fascinated by ancient Emperor Franz Joseph and by the faltering Austro-Hungarian Empire, its pomp and circumstance so removed from the daily life of the people she meets. Sitting daily in the Cafe Europa at her hotel, she listens to unfettered Hearst reporter Harold Gibbon as he predicts the coming war and the end of feudalistic life in Europe while patrons chatter.

Then a shocking murder in a midnight garden changes everything.

Headstrong Cassandra Blaine is supposed to marry into the Austrian nobility in one of those arranged matches like Consuela Vanderbilt's still popular with wealthy American parents eager for titles and impoverished European nobility who have them to offer. But Cassandra is murdered, and her former lover, the dashing Hungarian Endre Molnar, is the prime suspect. Taken with the young man and convinced of his innocence, Edna begins investigating with the help of Winifred and two avant-garde Hungarian artists. Meanwhile possible war with Serbia is the topic of the day as Archduke Franz Ferdinand prepares to head to Sarajevo. While the world braces for disaster, Edna uncovers the truth-and it scares her.

By: Ed Ifkovic, Edward Ifkovic, Ph.D.
Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 336g
ISBN: 9781464203923
ISBN 10: 146420392X
Series: Edna Ferber Mysteries
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 May 2015
Recommended Age: From 14 to 10 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for over three decades. His short stories and essays have appeared in the Village Voice, America, Hartford Monthly, and Journal of Popular Culture. A longtime devotee of mystery novels, he fondly recalls discovering Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason series in a family bookcase, and his immediate obsession with the whodunit world. www.edifkovic.com

Reviews for Cafe Europa

It's as smartly written as its predecessors, but, as each book does, it shows us a slightly different Ferber - here, she's not quite a girl anymore, but neither is she the experienced woman we see in other series installments. Another totally successful entry in a consistently interesting series. * Booklist * ...Ifkovic successfully blends homicide with a loving homage to Budapest on the eve of World War I. * Kirkus Reviews *

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