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Requiem for the Forger | The novel "as if it were the fruit of love between Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle... is very enjoyable to read." - NPR.org, about "The Forgers" A weekly pick in the New York Times Paperback section A literary thriller that takes readers into the world of professional forgery, intense hostility, and dark family secrets passed down the generations, with Mary Shelley's voice and life woven throughout the novel. Henry Slader, a literary forger, assaulted and presumed dead by his arch-enemy Will, wakes up in a shallow grave, choking with dirt. Slader suffers a concussion and a disoriented mind, so he digs himself out of his grave and sets out to take revenge on his rival, orchestrate Will's downfall, and amass a huge fortune along the way, armed with a devastating secret about Will's past. Sledder soon takes advantage of Will's daughter, Nicole, using his threats against her father to blackmail her and force her to forge engravings of major writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Nicole's skill increases, so does her devotion to her father and her doubts about his integrity, until she commits high treason for his freedom. With astonishing precision and skill, Nicole forges a collection of brilliantly disguised and invaluable letters from Frankenstein's author, Mary Shelley, to sow the seeds of Sledder's doom. Moving between upstate New York, a village in Ireland, and London, and concluding with a shocking confrontation at the site of Mary Shelley's grave in a seaside town in southern England, "Elegy for a Forger" is a gripping standalone novel, and a thrilling conclusion to a trilogy that Joyce Carol Oates called "deadly captivating." Read less