Historical Fiction
Tuesday Evening. Outside the Yorkville Casino, 210 East 86th Street, Manhattan, New York Ben spots the throng through the dusky light: pedestrians, wrapped in heavy overcoats and neck scarves against the chill, emanating a somber air. His breath catches when he...
Historical Fiction
48 Hours Earlier. Second Avenue, in Yorkville, Manhattan’s German American neighborhood. Blonda, a handsome German shepherd of noble bearing, pads into a shop bearing her master’s name: Max Kroeber, Master Jeweler. Beneath it, in formal German...
Historical Fiction
Ben Graham’s Office, 52 Wall Street, Financial District, Lower Manhattan Ben sits hunched over his desk, pencil moving across a slip of paper. At the top he has written American Smelting & Refining. Before him lie two open publications: the company’s annual...
Historical Fiction
Benjamin Graham turns toward the yawning doorway, and a blast of wintry air slaps him in the face. “Look what just sauntered in,” Ben’s friend Richard Goldberg hisses in his ear. Richard’s a lanky white man, a head taller than Ben, with ardent eyes and a storm of dark...
Historical Fiction
Welcome to The Graham Plan, a serialized historical thriller that weaves together fact and fiction against the backdrop of 1936 New York. I chose to anchor my story in this consequential year because its tensions and uncertainties resonate powerfully with our world...
