The Cannibal Who Overate

The Cannibal Who OverateThe latest in the Crime Classics brought to you by the Library of Congress. As manager of New York City's finest luxury hotel The Beaumont, Pierre Chambrun is well acquainted with unreasonable requests from its patrons. When one of the rich rooftop suite owners demands the impossible for his annual birthday bash, Chambrun is unflustered; of course he can have exotic foods and flora flown in from all corners of the globe! No problem procuring the

is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality

and violent bigotry have come to the fore

with cracking the killer’s code

Henry VIII

But mostly

He has a way of erasing the pain with a single look

Author: Richard Wightman Fox

but this early novel ranks among his finest work

Men battled each other in the streets in ethnic and religious conflicts

Franklin's greatest legacy lies perhaps in the history of physics for his discoveries regarding electricity

who stoked the first flames of the suffrage movement in the 1800s