Tag: Kansas City mystery fiction
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FREE MYSTERY SHORT
Two Birthdays An Old Kansas City Story The office door opening that afternoon startled Minty Wilcox and she almost looked up to see who it was. But then she thought, I’d better keep my head down and look busy. It won’t do for Mr. Mathison to catch me reading a mystery novel when I’m supposed…
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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…