Gordon McAlpine Books in Order

A magical baseball launched by Babe Ruth during the 1932 World Series sends an orphan, a pursued woman, and a troubled scientist across America. Their journey combines baseball history with unlikely encounters and questions about hope.

Laundress Elvia Witt rescues an unconscious stranger from a stream and brings him into her crowded household. Without memories of his identity, the man begins experiencing puzzling visions while Elvia's jealous husband threatens his precarious refuge.

This novel imagines Franklin Dixon and Carolyn Keene as real people finding their way through 1920s Paris. Frank searches for his missing brother while Carolyn pursues writing, and both confront mysteries behind the identities they will create.

Former major-league player Shawn Green, writing with Gordon McAlpine, describes how baseball became a practice of attention and inner stillness. Experiences across his career illustrate his approach to focus, ego, and awareness on and off the field.

Dashiell Hammett’s writing stalls after he gives away a falcon statuette linked to his famous detective case. Suspecting the object’s mysterious powers, he reconnects with old criminals and follows its influence through decades of danger and uncertainty.

Identical twins Edgar and Allan Poe follow their kidnapped cat on a road trip with their guardians. Their unusual mental connection attracts a dangerous scientist, while mysterious messages suggest their famous ancestor may be offering help.

Edgar and Allan Poe travel to New Orleans to portray their famous ancestor in a film, only to face another threat to their lives. Fellow twins, ghosts, and literary clues complicate their efforts to identify the danger.

Twins Edgar and Allan Poe face a final confrontation with their scientific enemies in an old mansion near Baltimore. Codes, puzzles, and guidance from their ghostly ancestor become part of the effort to survive the showdown.

Japanese American academic Sam Sumida investigates his wife's murder, then discovers that all evidence of his own existence has vanished. His story intertwines with a wartime author's revisions and the editor directing changes to his fictional world.

An elderly Sherlock Holmes hides as a Cambridge professor until Arthur Conan Doyle asks him to investigate a murder threat. The case draws Holmes toward espionage, séances, and unsettling questions about Doyle's knowledge of his identity.

After her con-artist father’s enterprise collapses, eighteen-year-old Rita Gaspereaux navigates San Francisco’s criminal underworld alone. Rumors of a powerful black bird and her absorption in a novel about Dorothy from Kansas complicate her struggle to survive.

Dorothy Gale’s account of a magical land becomes evidence against her when a local woman is murdered. Psychologist Evelyn Wilford investigates the institutionalized girl’s story, confronting small-town secrets and the possibility that something unexplained lies behind the accusations.