Dreamland

WINSTON MARLOWE SHERMAN...

By day, he's a bulky, suede-elbowed Shakespeare professor. By night, he hunches over his typewriter and secretly becomes Henrietta Slocum--a mystery novelist renowned for her swanky Gilded Age snooper, G. Winchester Hyde.

Someone is going to die. You can stop it. The note was delivered with two dozen white roses and a bottle of Dom Perignon. Winston received it only hours before the Edgar Awards ceremony, where the best mystery novel of the year would be chosen. If the past nine years were any clue, Winston would lose once again to bestselling author Jenny Vail. But to everyone's surprise, the queen of kinky crime fiction is this year's big loser, shot dead in the midst of an evening of handshaking, backstabbing, and gossip. The memory of Winston's brief affair with the enigmatic writer doesn't make winning by default any easier. But when Winston and his foster son are picked as murder suspects, they both must rise to the occasion, hoping to prove that innocence is its own reward.