Posts Tagged ‘Twenty Weeks of Buzz’
Justice Hall
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’ll be posting about a different one of my twenty books, exploring how each book took shape. This week, Justice Hall, published in 2002. During the Great War, British men and boys as young as 17 arrived in France and were faced by this: Some of…
Read MoreSherlock puzzles
We had a gratifying number of entries into last week’s “Sherlockism” contest–while I’m mulling them over, you might like to look at them yourself and see if there are any that catch your imagination. (My choice will probably go up mid-week, so you have a couple of days.) And when your grey cells have been…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part Eleven
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 MoreThe happening place
I’m in Los Angeles for Left Coast Crime, the mystery conference for the country’s looser nuts. It doesn’t begin until this afternoon, which leaves me a few hours to frantically catch up on work. And to write a blog telling about how I’m frantically catching up on work, which seems like cheating, somehow. In any…
Read MoreA Case in Correspondence: Week Eleven
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 throughout our Twenty Weeks of Buzz, and on Fridays you can find them here at Mutterings. What on earth are the world’s greatest detective and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, up…
Read MoreFolly
Each Tuesday during this spring’s Twenty Weeks of Buzz, I’m talking about a different one of my twenty books, with remarks and reflections about the writing process. This is the eleventh week, so I’ll be looking at Folly, published in 2001, which won the Macavity award and the Washington State Award. Sometimes, a book’s greatest…
Read MoreIt’s raining Sherlockisms!
The Sherlockism is a pithy turn of phrase as favored by Mr Sherlock Holmes: * “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.” * “I saw no one.” “That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.” * “I believe that you are the devil himself!” he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.…
Read MoreA Case of Correspondence: Part Ten
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 MoreOnline & up and down the Coast
We’ve had some absolutely fantabulous entries into the Russellscape project this week, you can see them at the bottom of the home page, here, where you’ll also find a link to the instructions for doing one of your own—come on, get those pencils/paints/scissors-and-glue going! We’ve also had an amazing, gorgeous Illustrated MyStory that we’ll post…
Read MoreA Puzzling event, Watson
P U Z Z L E U Z Z L E X C E L L E N T …….R …….O …….S …….S …….W …….O …….R …….DO IT HERE AND WIN A PRIZE That’s right, the wicked puzzler Marjorie has set another crossword, to eat up your hours between now and the end of…
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