Victorian Canada provides the setting for Mel Bradshaw's first crime novel. Death in the Age of Steam was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award and won the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in the Mystery category. His second historical mystery, Quarrel with the Foe, leaps ahead 70 years to the Roaring Twenties. Various journals have published Mel's short stories. He has also written on military history for The Canadian Forum.

Mel was born and grew up in Toronto, where he took his B.A. and was film editor of The Varsity. He holds a post-graduate degree in philosophy from Oxford University. His non-writing career is teaching English, which he has done in Canada and Southeast Asia.


Selected Bibliography
Crime novels:
Quarrel with the Foe. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2005
Death in the Age of Steam. Toronto: RendezVous Press, 2004

Short crime fiction:
“Horse and Snake” in Descant 53, Summer 1986
“The Nuremberg Code” in Queen's Quarterly 93/4, Winter 1986
“Weevil Mind” in Queen's Quarterly 96/2, Summer 1989


Quarrel with the Foe
Industrialist Digby Watt is gunned down on the streets of Prohibition-era Toronto. What got him killed—his Temperance speeches, a possible remarriage, or his activities during the Great War?

Death in the Age of Steam
Isaac never managed to forget Theresa, despite her marriage to another man. Now her father's dead, Theresa has disappeared—and only Isaac is asking questions.

Website:
http://www.napoleonandcompany.com/RVCrimePages/RVC.Bradshaw.html

Mel Bradshaw's photo by Brett Newsome