Tag: women sleuths
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Job Hunting Jinxed in Old Kansas City
Buy January Jinx, the first book in the Calendar Mystery series, now at www.amazon.com/dp/B00HSSSBE4 The first chance Minty Wilcox gets in January 1899, she sets off to find a stenographer’s job in Kansas City. But her search is jinxed from the start. And in spite of her efforts to clear her name, bad luck spreads…
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Nancy Martin’s Miss Ruffles
A JKWryter Fav Long a fan of Nancy Martin’s Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, recently I came upon her stand-alone mystery, Miss Ruffles Inherits Everything while trolling the mystery section at my local library. I’m very glad I checked it out because this mystery has all the elements I’ve enjoyed in Ms. Martin’s other work, plus more.…
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The Business Girl
Earlier this year when I was working on Mischief in March, the third book in my calendar mystery series, I decided to find out if my heroine, Minty Wilcox, could have read the Ladies’ Home Journal in March 1900. So I launched a Google search and found out that sure enough she could. In doing…
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M. Louisa Locke’s Maids of Misfortune
Maids of Misfortune by M. Louisa Locke, a review by Juliet Kincaid This historical novel, set in San Francisco in 1879, hooks you from the start with the widowed Annie Fuller receiving a letter claiming that she owes some gent the sum of $1,380 for a loan made to her late husband. If you keep…
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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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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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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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Perfect for your holiday drive!
Are you hitting the road for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday? If so, take along Cinderella, P. I., as she travels from the castle to the deep dark woods and to several other spots around the world. Along the way you will encounter a Prince Charming (or two), a fairy godmother, some wicked Stepmothers, mean Stepsisters,…