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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
Set in Hollywood in 1955, Ifkovic's debut...depicted Edna Ferber as a matronly but shrewd established author. This excellent prequel, set in 1904, shows her at the start of her career, a recent high school graduate working as a reporter for her hometown newspaper in Appleton, Wis. - Publishers Weekly STARRED Review The author does a fine job of writing a sequel to Lone Star, set at the opposite end of Edna's life. Stylistically, it's as if we're in Booth Tarkington country, with a leisurely pace and a society with clearly defined boundaries. A gentle read. - Library Journal Only a nitpicker would even wonder how much Ifkovic's version resembles the real woman, for the reader is entranced by her plucky spirit and sharp-witted investigative skills. Houdini, too, is a very well designed character. This isn't his first fictional appearance, but it's definitely one of his best, and if Ifkovic can manage it without overstretching the bounds of credibility, it would be great to see the escape artist and the girl reporter team up again. Who would have thought that, of all the real-life characters to have a second life as detectives, Edna Ferber, now largely forgotten as a writer, would emerge as one of the best? - Booklist STARRED Review
