Kenneth Tucker: 16 books

Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky’s tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs...

A Gilligan’s Island in outer space, a Lost on another planet, an extravagant satire in the spirit of Voltaire’s Candide? ¬¬Perhaps elements of all contribute to Kenneth Tucker’s Farewell, MuirsheenDirken. In a society run by judges, in which all persons are judges but some judges are more equal...

After his conflict with Capone, Eliot Ness becomes the public safety director of Cleveland Ohio. He scores resounding victories against corrupt unions and organized crime, but confronts an enemy he might not be able to arrest. A string of grotesque serial killings—bodies dismembered and their parts...

A novel of the Civil War set in Kentucky and Tennessee and the story of a man who did not know who he was. Was Jerry Manning the son of a mad woman? A foundling abandoned by vagrants? Or the supposedly murdered child of a wealthy family? Would he find the answer during the turmoil of the War Between the States?

He awoke in Chicago with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the European war that would engulf the world. Fairies and trolls were among the city’s...

They came to decadent America, tottering toward insurrection: The Zebonites, beings from a distant star had promised astounding medical and scientific advances in exchange for allowing them to set up a military stronghold in Florida's Everglades. Excited by their promises humanity's advancementof,...

After his adventures in other dimensions based on Arthurian legend and H. Rider Haggard’s Africa, Hal Morgan finds himself hurled into an alternate reality based upon the operas of Richard Wagner. There Hal must locate the stolen Ring of the Nibelungs and return it to the Rhine Maidens, before its...

With the cessation of the Indian Wars, Silas Magby believed that Western Kentucky would be safe for his wife and children. But then the Harpes came—two mysterious brothers, Micajah and Wiley, with three devoted women followers, leaving a wake of ghoulish and seemingly motiveless murders—men, women,...

In 1913, several brutal murders occurred in the small town of Canton, Kentucky.Quentin Spade, the scion of a wealthy familyintellectual, respected. artistic, reserved,was accused of being a psychotic killerbut was he?In the early Twenty-First Century, Tiffany Gray, a college student, becomes obsessed...

A botched alchemical experiment tosses Hal Morganthe scion of a wealthy Louisville family and perhaps a relative of Twains Hank Morgan--into a whacky dimension, where the characters of Arthurian legend indeed exist!Hal soon finds himself involved upon a dangerous quest to save Arthurs court from the...

The strange book of Enoch, the potion of Circe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare all herald the return of an ancient evil, and Father Sam Stone, an Anglican priest and recovering alcoholic, finds himself called in to investigate a supposed case of reincarnation, but finds himself confronting an evil...

Who was Jerry Manning? The son of a mad woman? The off spring of wandering vagrants? Or the supposedly murdered son of a wealthy planter and military leader? Would he somehow find the answer upon the battlefields of the War Between the States? And what price would he be willing to pay to learn the...

The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model...

Leading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis “new normal”? What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...