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Said in SeattleTwo weeks ago I reported on How I Spent My Mystery Writer Vacation at Left Coast Crime in Seattle. Below you will find some of...
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Character RevealedWhen this blog posts, I'll be on the road. My traveling companion and I will be returning to the Lone Star State from...
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Slackers, Lost Souls and a Serial KillerIn mysteries, as in every other category, fashion decrees novelty, and it is always pleasing to come across something new – or new again. Perhaps...
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Is That a Derringer in Your Pocket?First things first: my deepest thanks to the SleuthSayers for inviting me to be a contributor to this blog. I had to fight off a bit of imposter...
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A Gal out of Time (aka Why Write Historical Crime?)A few months past, I said on these pages that I would offer a post about writing historical fiction. In fact, I wish I had read...
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King Arthur and Vince McMahon?My current Audible listen is Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory. It's the earliest complete telling of the King Arthur legend in...
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LCC Seattle: A Love LetterThis year I attended my tenth Left Coast Crime conference. This in and of itself is unremarkable. Before COVID knocked the...
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Get Carter (Brit noir)Another movie post, because I’m still in the geosynchronous orbit of Tarantino’s brain candy, Cinema Speculation . Brit...
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The Magic of MaliceWhen Stacy Woodson offered to write a pre-Malice guest post, this isn ’ t what I was expecting. You’ll understand why when you read it. —...
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Punctuated equilibrium. Also capitalized.I love France, and many of the French, though they can be annoying like anyone else. I find their language confounding, even as I love...
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The Tintinnitus of the Bells, Bells, BellsMy parents used to rebuke us: “Enunciate!” Humph. I didn’t think I spoke badly, but they would’ve instructed the nation with resolutely precise...
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Dryer Is a NounWe all know that. It's the big appliance that sits beside your washing machine. If you want to compare the moisture content of...
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The Pressfield SynchronicitiesThe Man in the Velcro Mask. Every morning since January 1 of this year, I have observed the same ritual to start my...
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South Dakota - Criming and Whining EditionWe do get some interesting crimes in South Dakota. Some of it is that, when you have a very few people scattered over very large distances,...
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Seen in SeattleI just spent a long weekend in Bellevue, WA for Left Coast Crime: Seattle Shakedown, and I had a great time. More than 500...
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Killing in Different WaysRecently, Agatha Award-winning short-story author Toni L.P. Kelner asked if she could run a guest post here on SleuthSayers, highlighting this...
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Time to Say AdiosOkay, I haven't known Marcia Muller for 47 years but perhaps a little closer to 37 years. I'm sorta on shaky ground but reasonably sure...
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Kinsey Millhone: a fantasy character with fantasies.Recently my six-month-old Bouvier puppy mistook one of my Sue Grafton books for a chew toy. I apologize to anyone who is squeamish about...
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Adventures In Spelling (Or, An Author Gives Up)Words. They're kind of important in writing. Words are comprised of letters, optimally in the correct order. I'm a liberal arts major and...
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Paperback WriterWhen I dreamed of writing a novel in high school – my goal was to be a paperback writer, like the song. Twenty years after graduating from...
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Crime Scene Comix Case 2024-xx-023, xxxxxOnce again we highlight our criminally favorite cartoonist, Future Thought channel of YouTube . We love the sausage-shaped Shifty, a Minion...
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Speculative Cinemas“We were just leaving the movies - Casablanca , with Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan…” I had the idea one time to use this as the...
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Miami Ad-ViceOn the day this blog posts, life takes my traveling companion and me to southern Florida. The overlapping...
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Do not go gentle into that good night. Bring a flashlight.I’m in my seventies, which makes me officially an old person. In our euphemism-afflicted age, the preferable term is Senior,...
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The Mystery of the FirebearThis real-life mystery sounds like the title of a Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys novel, doesn’t it? But stay tuned. First Nations near Flat Rock,...
