Following in the footsteps of such magpies as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (Grindhouse) and the Alan Moore of the mock-Marvel comic-books series 1963, Ariel S. Winter offers crime-fiction readers a three-course dessert with his debut adult novel, The Twenty-Year Death. (His children’s book, One Of A Kind—a collaboration with illustrator David Hitch—came out in June 2012.) This 670-page novel is actually three full-length, self-contained, but interlocking novels, each written to mimic a master of the style, and set in a period identified with that writer at his peak.
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