E. A. Allen is a cattle farmer, History Professor, and retired CIA Intelligence Officer. He writes the Montclaire Mysteries for adult readers, which follow the exploits of the early twentieth century’s ruthless and relentless crime fighter Gerard de Montclaire. More recently Allen has launched a new series of Percy St.-John Adventures for Teens and Young Adults -- stories in the great tradition of stories Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Agatha Christie that he enjoyed as a young reader. He has taught History and International Relations at several colleges and universities, including Loyola, Xavier, University of New Orleans, and the University of Virginia. He has a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Tulane and studied in France at both the University of Montpellier and the Sorbonne. In government service, E. A. Allen was Senior Analyst for European Security Affairs at the CIA and served during the Clinton and Bush Administrations on the National Intelligence Council as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe. He now lives on a farm in the mountains of northwest Arkansas, with his wife, Elizabeth, assorted cat friends, and one astonishingly intelligent beagle. In his “spare time,” he is building a rustic cabin in the nearby Ozark forest.
E. A. Allen is a cattle farmer, History Professor, and retired CIA Intelligence Officer. He writes the Montclaire Mysteries for adult readers, which follow the exploits of the early twentieth century’s ruthless and relentless crime fighter Gerard de Montclaire. More recently Allen has launched a new series of Percy St.-John Adventures for Teens and Young Adults -- stories in the great tradition of stories Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers,...
Illustrated by Award Winning children's artist Evgeniia Kozhevnikova
An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who has conversations with saints, an angry French girl, a guardian angel with attitude, a murderous master criminal, and a gaggle of angry demons might stop the ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius,...
An unbreakable cipher, a dead priest with expensive shoes, a hermit who has conversations with saints, an angry French girl, a guardian angel with attitude, a murderous master criminal, and a gaggle of angry demons might stop the ordinary fifteen-year-old safe-cracking genius, but not Percy St.-John. He’s out to prove he did not steal a...
Marie-Claire Bernard was the widow of a national hero and the daughter of a wealthy, politically powerful family and her murder threatened domestic consequences for the French Government. Eager to avoid uproar in the press, the Minister of Justice summons Gérard de Montclaire –the most renowned detective of the era—to assume a familiar role....
