Sherlock’s OTHER relation…

My friend Rebecca Morean drops by for a visit today, with word of a return of her tales of two fascinating women of the early Twentieth Century—one of whom is a relation of… well, see for yourself. –LRK I was excited to sit down with Abbey Pen Baker, the great niece of Faye Martin Tullis…

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“Clash of the Books,” Part IV

(For parts I, II, and III of Sabrina Flynn’s award-winning “Clash of the Books,” scroll down to yesterday’s post, or click here for the entire story.) IV “SFPD, we need to commandeer your…time machine.” The Time Traveller’s eyes widened, and his hand snaked towards a shiny lever.  Kate grabbed his wrist with one hand, and his…

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“Clash of the Books,” Part III

(For parts I and II of Sabrina Flynn’s award-winning “Clash of the Books,” scroll down to the earlier posts, or wait until Tuesday for the entire story.) III “Your wife is certainly something.” “Assuming this is her dream, I’m inclined to agree,” Holmes remarked drily. “And if it’s not?” Kate enquired. “I suggest we discover…

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“Clash of the Books,” Part II

(For part I of Sabrina Flynn’s award-winning “Clash of the Books,” scroll down to yesterday’s post, or wait until Tuesday for the entire story.)   II   “Run, you fools!” A lash of flame descended with a sizzling snap.  The detectives and librarian ran, taking cover in the Natural Sciences aisle.  Black smoke gathered, writhing…

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Contest winner: “Clash of the Books”

Every year we run a contest celebrating National Library Week, asking readers to talk about their love for libraries.  This year I posed the challenge of explaining what “library” means,  to someone like a Martian—and said that there would be extra points if the essay/poem/etc mentioned Kate Martinelli, whose 20th anniversary 2013 is. I loved…

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Rhys Bowen, guest post

My friend Rhys Bowen has a new book!  Rhys has been a buddy since, well, for a long time now, and since we’re both in the Northern California area, we see each other occasionally.  Although how Rhys has time to do anything but bend over her keyboard, I can’t think—she publishes at least fifteen books…

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2 for 1 countdown

One week to pub date, which makes this a bonus day: I also have a post over at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore’s blog, talking about Russell & Holmes, Gilbert & Sullivan, and hitting a series’ reset button.  Join me here.

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The greatest trip, ever (5)

Meredith Taylor, in LewTrenchard, Devon: We then went on to the Church of St. Peter in Lew Trenchard just next door, which is small and lovely. W.S. Baring-Gould, grandson of SBG, compiled the first annotation of the complete Holmes that I ever owned.  On his account I took a picture of the memorial plaque to…

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