New York: Carroll & Graf, (1999). Hardcover first edition - A very strange novel, purporting to tell the real truth of the Brontes. "Noted criminologist James Tully became fascinated by inconsistencies he found in the accounts of the lives and deaths of the Brontes. So dark and unexpected were the results of his searches, he decided to tell the story in the form of a novel. He has created a controversial and compelling account of this most famous Victorian family." Brief bibliography. 284 pp. ISBN: 0-786706465.