Twenty Weeks of Buzz
What Sherlock Holmes means to…
Winner of this week’s contest on “What Sherlock Holmes means to me” is Elizabeth Burden. Elizabeth Burden was introduced to Sherlock Holmes at 12 when her father began reading the ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ out loud to her at bedtime: she retrieved it after her parents went to bed and stayed up all night to…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell: Week Four
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays, and here Fridays, throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up to now? ** This is the one-year…
Read MoreA Monstrous Regiment of Women
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. A Monstrous Regiment of Women was the second Mary Russell novel, published in 1995, and won the Nero Wolfe award. Some…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Puzzzzzzle
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…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 3
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…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell: Week 3
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…
Read MoreTo Play the Fool
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…
Read MoreWeek Three of Twenty: a Sherlock Holmes contest!
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…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part 2
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…
Read MoreTwenty Weeks of Russell
What’s this I see? Mary Russell has a new post over on her MySpace page? Episodes of “A Case in Correspondence” will appear there Wednesdays, and here Fridays, throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up to now?
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