New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm... Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance.. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030074.