Tag: women sleuths
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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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Fun in Old K.C. only 99 Cents
As their wedding day fast approaches, Minty Wilcox has some questions about her fiancé Daniel Price. Did he really kill someone? Why has he never told her he’s rich? And for goodness’ sake, where will they go on their honeymoon? From Minty’s journal . . . But back to my story of naming the…
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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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Charming Mystery – reduced price
Mystery . . . Romance . . . Wannabe woman sleuth in old Kansas City . . . Praise for Fatal February Book 2 of Juliet Kincaid’s calendar mystery series In the year 1900, Minty Wilcox has been hired by a private detective agency, her on again/off again beau’s employer, as a stenographer. For this…
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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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Cozy Historical Mystery on Sale
MISCHIEF IN MARCH Book 3 in the Calendar Mystery Series By Juliet Kincaid Excerpt from Minty Wilcox’s Journal 11: 55 p.m. on Friday, March 23, 1900 It’s shortly before midnight on the very last day of my life as a single miss. Or so I hope and pray. Right now, I’m sitting on…