Lyndsay Faye

Lyndsay Faye
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Genre	Historical thrillers
Notable works	Dust and Shadow (2015) Jane Steele ( 2016)

Lyndsay Faye is an American author. Her first novel was the Sherlockian pastiche Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson^[1] and she has been nominated for the Edgar Award for The Gods of Gotham^[2] and Jane Steele.^[3] The Gods of Gotham was named "the year’s best mystery novel" by the American Library Association.^[4]

Life

Having discovered Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes when she was 10,^[5] her interest in the famous sleuth continues to be part of her life as a member of both The Baker Street Irregulars and Baker Street Babes.^[5] Faye described the debt all mystery authors owe to Conan Doyle saying "You can’t escape Sherlock Holmes as a mystery writer. You simply cannot. It would be like trying to deal with astrophysics without Newton or modern art without Picasso."^[6]

Faye attended R. A. Long High School^[2] as did her future spouse, Gabriel Lehner.^[2]

Career

2016 brought Faye's re-imagining of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre titled Jane Steele.^[7]

Bibliography

Novels

• —— (2016). Jane Steele (hardcover 1st ed.). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–416. ISBN 978-0399169496.
• —— (2019). The Paragon Hotel (hardcover 1st ed.). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0735210752.
• —— (2021). The King of Infinite Space (hardcover 1st ed.). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–432. ISBN 978-0525535898.

Sherlock Holmes

• —— (2015). Dust and Shadow (paperback 1st ed.). G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–325. ISBN 978-1416583318.
• —— (2017). The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (hardcover 1st ed.). Mysterious Press. pp. 1–352. ISBN 978-0802125927.
• —— (2021). Observations by Gaslight: Stories from the World of Sherlock Holmes (hardcover 1st ed.). Mysterious Press. p. 295. ISBN 9781613162613.
• story:
  • "The Case of Colonel Warburton’s Madness" short story appearing in Sherlock Holmes in America (2009) ISBN 978-1602393523

Timothy Wilde series

• —— (2012). The Gods of Gotham (hardcover 1st ed.). Amy Einhorn Books / Putnam. pp. 1–408. ISBN 978-0399158377.
• —— (2013). Seven for a Secret (hardcover 1st ed.). G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–445. ISBN 978-0399158384.
• —— (2015). The Fatal Flame (hardcover 1st ed.). G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 1–463. ISBN 978-0399169489.

References

External links

• Lyndsay Faye