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James Sulzer lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts. A graduate of Yale University, where he was a Yale National Scholar, he is the author of the new mystery All That Smolders. Other published works include a novel about Emily Dickinson, The Voice at the Door and a novel about John Keats, Writ in Water, as well as the novel Nantucket Daybreak and a trilogy of middle grade novels for children, The Card People. He taught elementary and middle school students for 30 years and has produced countless “Sonic id’s” for Public Radio. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet.

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	All That Smolders: A Mystery 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice at the Door 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WRIT IN WATER: A novel of John Keats 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identity Swap: Card People 2 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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All That Smolders: A Mystery
By Sulzer, James

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Despite being set in 1980, Sulzer’s debut mystery is a clever reworking of golden age detective fiction, with Agatha Christie serving as the inspiration not only for journalist Peter Christie (Agatha’s fictional great-great nephew here), but also in the way his investigation reveals the rotting underpinnings of a closed-off community. Wit Read more of this blog post »

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