Ed Ifkovic taught literature and creative writing at a community college in Connecticut for more than three decades and now devotes himself to writing fiction. Downtown Strut is the fourth mystery in his Edna Ferber Mystery series for Poisoned Pen Press.
The little town of Flemington, N.J., provides the setting for Ifkovic's intriguing seventh mystery featuring novelist Edna Ferber....History buffs will enjoy this one. - Publishers Weekly Like Max Allan Collins in Stolen Away, Ifkovic develops a realistic scenario for what might have really happened to the Lindbergh baby. Largely unknown today, Ferber has emerged in this series as perhaps the most compelling of all the many real-life authors turned fictional sleuths in the genre. - Booklist Now that he's seen her through six murder cases, Ifkovic turns sleuthing novelist/playwright Edna Ferber loose on the biggest game of all: the Lindbergh kidnapping....Perhaps the finest hour yet for a fictionalized heroine who defends herself against undue prejudice in favor of a supremely unpopular defendant by saying, 'I have taken no position-except doubt.' - Kirkus The seventh entry in Ifkovic's historical series continues to entertain with Woollcott and Ferber trading barbs and bon mots with Walter Winchell and Adela Rogers St. John from the Hearst syndicate. - Library Journal