Literary Market
For agents placing narrative nonfiction with a cinematic, document-driven spine.
Last updated 2026-07-31
Narrative nonfiction / memoir with a true-crime engine and a primary archive. Voice is granddaughter-investigator, not true-crime narrator. The free opening chapter is the voice sample.
Think archive-forward family investigation and international money: the terrain of books that sit between memoir and documented true crime. Exact published comps are used in private agent materials; publicly, the differentiator is the 144-document 1965 archive and the reversed mystery (person found, fortune missing).
Elisabeth Bierschenk Hitz, granddaughter of Anna Maria Hitz. Project began as oral history at New York University in 2014. Sole rights holder. Works in English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. Full bio.
Read the opening chapter. Request the book proposal and sample pages: thehitzinheritance@gmail.com.