Tag: Kansas City mystery fiction
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Been a rough month but . . .
Hi, Everybody! Here’s the cover for the fourth novel, fifth book in my calendar mystery series featuring the former business girl, Minty Wilcox, now Price, and her dashing detective husband Daniel, in Kansas City, MO, a place that could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago. I had lots of trouble making this…
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Charming Cozy Historical Mystery
In February 1900, a young woman has gone missing from a Kansas City garment factory. Minty Wilcox, now a typist/stenographer at Price Investigations, longs to help find the girl, but her boss, George Mathison doesn’t approve of women sleuthing. He also forbids any office romance at all, especially with his nephew, detective Daniel Price. When…
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Free Fun Short Story
“Stop! Thief!” a woman screamed. Across the lobby, outside the New England National Bank stood a stooped woman in black and a raggedy little boy. The woman pointed to a fellow running up the stairs and shouted, “Come back here with my purse.” Then, seeming to notice Minty and Daniel for the first time, she…
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A bit more time . . .
Just then a hullabaloo erupted outside. Men shouted. Horses neighed. A dog barked. In the kitchen, Gerta shouted, “Frau Vilcox, Herr . . .“ But a cat squalling, a dog baying, and a man swearing drowned out the rest of what she said. As Mama smoothed her hair and smiled, Minty sprang up from her…
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St. Valentine’s Day 1900
A Kansas City newspaper suggested an avian theme for Valentine’s Day parties in February 1900 like the one described below. Minty stepped back from the dining room table that she’d just finished setting with Mama’s best china in the rose pattern . . . A pair of turtledoves made of stuffed cotton and feathers hung…