Oh, I am so glad I don’t have to prove myself on these puzzles contributed by readers! This one is made up of ten titles of my books and 24 character names, which can be found in any direction: up, down, or diagonal, and written either backwards or forwards. The clues will be posted on…
“Yesterday was a gift.” The gentleman on the elevator was dressed in a heavy jacket, a beret on his head and a cup of takeaway coffee in his hand. I’d asked when I got in if it was cold outside, since I’d spent the morning in the hotel having breakfast with a friend, and he…
To my utter astonishment and honor, I was invested into the Baker Street Irregulars tonight. Since the honor was accompanied by volumes of wine, champagne, and sundry unidentifiable liquids, and it is now one thirty in the morning, I may perhaps be forgiven in not offering a complete explanation of the above, other than to…
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
I’m in the air today, and hoping that the ground isn’t absolute ice when I come down in New York. Think warm thoughts for me, please…
The third exciting episode of “A Case in Correspondence” is posted over at Mary Russell’s blog–AND, the formerly hidden fronts of the postcards have appeared in the Mutterings posts for the previous two Fridays (here and then here)! Watch here for this week’s card as it came to me, in Russell’s own hand. I’m heading…
One part of the Twenty Weeks of Buzz is a retrospective of the LRK oeuvre—a fancy way of saying that I’ll be looking at each of my twenty books, a week at a time. Next we have To Play the Fool, the second Kate Martinelli novel, published in 1995. “This fellow is wise enough to…
For various reasons too complicated to go into here, the date ascribed to Sherlock Holmes for a birthday is Jan 6, or Epiphany. Every year on a weekend close to that date the Baker Street Irregulars travel to New York (and London—and since some wish to participate in both, the NY and London weekends trade…
A series of communications (employing means as varied as re-used post cards and the agony columns of the Times) has come to light between Mary Russell and Other Important People, which will be revealed during the Twenty Weeks of Buzz. It follows the 1992 (not a typo!) tale published last year as MyStory (or, The…
Next month, on February 16, four women will sit down in an Arizona ballroom and talk books. Of course, women talking books is hardly unusual, but in this case the women might be saying things that others would like to listen in on. Barbara Peters is in charge. Barbara’s the queen bee of Poisoned Pen…