Monthly Archives: April 2011
Malice Domestic 23 is this coming weekend… …and as a first-timer (to any writers’ convention), I’m a bit nervous. Out come the lists and the advance preparations: what to wear, what to buy to wear, what to read ahead of time so I can talk intelligently with authors. Laptop? Business cards? (Do I put “writer”…
Welcome to Masters of Mystery Monday, where each week we feature a fictional detective and examine his or her unique contribution to the mystery genre. You are invited to challenge yourself with a short detective quiz, and see the answers to the previous week’s quiz. This week: Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot Be the…
No, not wet-tee-shirt-contest wild: Oscar Wilde Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles Aside from Hammett’s detective Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), the husband-wife couple of The Thin Man (1934) was nearly as popular. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple Miss Marple rivals Hercule Poirot as Agatha Christie’s most famous fictional detective. An elderly spinster living in a tiny village in England called St. Mary’s Mead, Jane Marple’s primary occupations are knitting, trading gossip, and armchair detection. She first appeared in a 1927 short story, “The Tuesday Night Club.” Her…
