Firefly and the Cotswolds Murders

About the Book

This novel is a gentle mystery—part dreamscape and part history. In this, the third and last of the Firefly stories, Firefly reminisces about Tiny Tim’s and her days at Captain Barney’s Circus, their time spent dealing with the silent film greats—Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Edison, and the Lumière brothers—and their adventures in the Cotswolds, in Victorian England. She recalls the delights of the early Hollywood film industry and Tim’s bravery during World War II, entertaining troops with the USO. And most importantly, Firefly recounts the role played by the two little detectives in defending Atlas and their Circus friends, when they were accused of the Cotswolds “Ripper” murders. This is a wistful and elegiac novel of a lost world.

About the Author

Elaine Hatfield, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, has written 12 books—two of which won the American Psychological Association’s National Media Award.

Richard L. Rapson, Professor of History at the University of Hawaii, has also written a dozen books, most of which have focused on the psychology of American life, past and present. He has been a T.V. moderator, Dean of New College, and named by the Danforth Foundation as one of the nation’s best teachers.

Together the authors have published a sextet of serious novels and detective stories.