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A House in the Country
A Reminiscence Whenever we went for a drive on Sunday afternoons and on long trips, too, back in the 50’s, Dad stamped white horses. If he spotted a white horse in a field by the side of the road, he’d lift his right hand from the steering wheel, lick the end of his index finger,…
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The Registered Nurse
About a quarter of the way into January Jinx, the first book in my calendar mystery series, my heroine Minty Wilcox and the mysterious Daniel Price, who boards at her house, visit a cigar factory in the West Bottoms of Kansas City. It’s a very short scene in which “the deftness of the young…
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Edward Marston’s Exciting Railway Detective
The Railway Detective by Edward Marston A Review by Juliet Kincaid The first in Edward Marston’s Detective Inspector Colbeck Mystery series, The Railway Detective has lots to offer the historical mystery fan. Marston brings mid-19th century Britain to life with vivid descriptions of places like London’s Devil’s Acre, for one example, and for another, the…
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Looking for Old Kansas City, Part 2
Inside the New England Building (See my blog post of August 25, 2016, for Part 1.) When I began researching and writing my calendar mystery series set in Kansas City around a hundred years ago, I decided to place the detective agency my heroine Minty Wilcox works for in the historic New England Building, a…
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Mischief in March is here!
This excerpt from Juliet Kincaid’s third calendar mystery, Mischief in March, presents some of what Minty Wilcox and Daniel Price come to call their “improper courtship.” Precisely four weeks before on Valentine’s Day, right after they announced their engagement to her family, Minty led Daniel into the parlor and told him about her intention of…
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Calling Long Distance in 1900
Making a long distance telephone call in 1900 was pretty complicated. For instance, in Mischief in March, the third in my Calendar mystery series, when Minty Wilcox wants to make a call from Kansas City to her uncle Charles in St. Joseph, MO, she can’t just grab her cell or even pick up her home…
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Dare I Say Bah Humbug?
WiP Report # 18 What I’ve named “my week from H3LL” threatened to turn me all Scroogish as I began the annual trek through the holidays this year. You see, during the first week of every month, I usually have four meetings and a lunch in addition to my usual weekly activities of attending an…
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12 stories only $.99
Little Red Riding Hoodie meets Big Bad Wolf in the woods, in “Cinderella, P. I.,” just one of twelve fairy tale mystery stories for grown-ups only $0.99 (or a penny less than a pound for UK customers) for the whole collection from 10/15 to 10/19/16 (to 10/20/16 for UK customers). You’ll find the Kindle eBook…
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Free Story
When a very special magic wand goes missing, Cinderella takes the case, twenty years, three kids, and a few extra pounds after the ball. For fun and fantasy, get “Cinderella, P. I.,” a fairy tale mystery story for grown-ups, for FREE on Kindle 9/9 through 9/11/2016. Here’s the link to the story: www.amazon.com/dp/B00BAZPXEM PRAISE FOR…