![]() ![]() The protagonist, Miranda Corbie, is a private investigator, former Spanish Civil War nurse and ex-escort. The first novel in the Miranda Corbie mystery series, City of Dragons is set in 1940 San Francisco, particularly Chinatown, and tackles issues relating to the Second Sino-Japanese War. The novel marked Stanley's move from a small press to a major publisher. Stanley's second novel, City of Dragons, was published by Thomas Dunne/St. The Curse-Maker, the second novel in the series, was sold to Thomas Dunne/St. Stanley has said that the title is an homage to The Big Sleep, and roughly translates as "A night that must be slept, i.e., death." Stanley was a graduate student in Classics at San Francisco State University when she wrote the novel, and labeled this first series as "Roman noir," a pun on the French literary term for “black novel,” a unique combination of historical setting and hardboiled style. ![]() Nox Dormienda takes its title from a line by the Roman poet Catullus in the poem known as Catullus 5 ( Vivamus, mea Lesbia. Stanley's debut novel, Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) (released in 2008) was the first of a series set in Roman Britain in the 1st century CE (The Arcturus Series). Her best known work, the Miranda Corbie series, is set in San Francisco, her adoptive hometown. The majority of her published fiction is written in the genres of historical crime fiction and noir. Kelli Stanley (born 1964) is an American author of mystery-thrillers. ![]()
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