Theodore Roosevelt is best known as the 26th president of the United States. But he was also New York’s police commissioner and, at least according to author Caleb Carr’s 1994 award-winning historical mystery “The Alienist,” helped solve a series of gruesome murders before becoming president.
Similarly, in Heather Redmond’s “A Dickens of a Crime” series, English author Charles Dickens trades his goose quill pen for a magnifying glass as a young, up-and-coming journalist.
