Tag: historical mysteries
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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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Great Read only $0.99
From the Kansas City Star Tuesday, 6 February, 1900 A CAR KILLS A SCHOOL GIRL Little Hortense Petty Horribly Mangled On the Northeast Line Hortense, the 12-year-old daughter of Wilfred Petty of 4116 St. John Avenue, was killed by an electric car at St. John and Jackson Avenues, almost directly in front of her own…
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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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Kansas City’s New England Building
Looking for Old K. C., Part 1 Checking out sites for my calendar mysteries, set in Kansas City around 1900, can involve quite a bit of sleuthing. Take the New England Building at 9th Street and Wyandotte in Kansas City, MO, for instance. While working on January Jinx, the first in the series, I decided…
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Making Progress
WiP Report # 17: Mischief in March Shown here is the working cover for the third book in my Calendar Mystery Series. (I’m keeping what the actual cover will look like as a secret for now since it’s a spoiler.) I’m happy to report that I recently completed the draft of Mischief in March, well…
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Good Deal for Mystery Readers
Minty Wilcox and Daniel Price return in Fatal February for more adventure, mystery and romance in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago. Now through May 7 only $0.99 at www.amazon.com/dp/B017081JHM Buy it now to share with your mom or baby mama on Mother’s Day. PRAISE FOR…
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Good deal for readers
Here I am, all dolled up as Minty Wilcox, the heroine of my Calendar Mysteries, might have been if she went to a party in 1900. January Jinx, the first in the series, is available as an eBook for only $.99 from April 21 through April 27 at www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSSSBE4.
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Marching On
WiP Report # 17 Sorry, but I couldn’t resist the pun in my title. You see, the current Work in Progress, the third in my Calendar Mysteries, takes place in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago, in March 1900 and it’s called Mischief in March. One…
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Encouraging Feedback on Fatal February
My dear friend and fellow writer Anne Bauman recently wrote me this letter of praise for Fatal February, the second calendar mystery. (I’ve omitted or rephrased here and there to avoid spoilers.) Dear Juliet, Congratulations on Fatal February, another terrific read. Yes, I enjoyed it immensely, both as a reader and a writer. Between the…