Black Glass

Gifted novelist Fowler (Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season) delights in the arcane, and, as a result, these 15 clever tales are occasionally puzzling but never dull. In the long title story, temperance activist Carry Nation is resurrected in the 1990s ("e;We're talking about a very troubled, very big woman,"e; says one shaken barman to reporters) and becomes such a nuisance that the DE...