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Mark Fleischmann

Mark has been a published critic, journalist, and author for more than 40 years. He has served as founding editor-in-chief of etown.com, audio editor of Sound & Vision and its predecessor Home Theater, senior editor of Video Magazine, audio critic of Rolling Stone, and columnist for Audio Video Interiors, DigitalTrends.com, Premiere, and The Village Voice. His writing has appeared in Bloomberg Personal, CrutchfieldAdvisor.com, Details, E-Gear, Entertainment Weekly, The Men's Journal, Newsday, Spin, The Ultimate AV Guide, The Washington Post, and many other publications. He has lived in New York City since 1975. Visit Mark's homepage.


M.R.K. Walker

Author of the Kindle novella Schwap and the Tomb of Diamonds, M.R.K. Walker is a New York-based fiction writer. He has a matrilineal connection to crime fiction, having caught the bug from his mother, who got it from his grandmother. As a youth, he checked out The Complete Sherlock Holmes from the public library in Middlesex, New Jersey, sat down under a tree outside the library, and started reading. Since then he has devoured countless crime novels and stories. His influences include classic works by Rex Stout and Patricia Highsmith as well as contemporary writers such as Christopher Fowler and Val McDermid. The Schwap stories, including some yet to be published, also have a touch of Seinfeld.


Charles Dickens

Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Born in 1812, the son of a navy clerk, he had to leave school to work in a warehouse, an experience that scarred him but also endowed his work with a keen sense of compassion and outrage. Dickens rose from clerk to court reporter to journalist. In 1833 he began writing for periodicals and in 1836 some of these pieces were collected in his first book, Sketches by Boz. Dickens went on to write some of the greatest classics of 19th century literature—including Oliver Twist (1848), David Copperfield (1849), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1860)—and was well-loved and celebrated during his life, which ended on June 9th, 1870. Dickens published five short novels with year-end holiday themes: A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1848). Quiet River Press publishes each book in a separate Large Print edition with an original introduction and a bonus short story.


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