Welcome to Masters of Mystery Monday, where each week we feature a fictional detective and examine his or her unique contribution to mystery fiction. You are invited to challenge yourself with a short detective quiz, and see the answers to the previous week’s quiz. This week: Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe Be the first to(…)
The Sporting Life for 19th Century Women: Bicycling
While a number of sports activities were enjoyed by women in the 19th century (especially at women’s colleges) – basketball, tennis, and golf, to name a few – bicycling was by far the most popular. Susan B. Anthony asserted, in 1896, that “The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in(…)
Watercooler Wednesday: whole lotta shakin’ going on!
Yay! It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going. We all need help getting over hump-day, after all. You all know what this week’s theme is going to be: EARTHQUAKES! In case you slept(…)
Mrs. Pollifax visits Masters of Mystery Monday
While I’m away, the intrepid, younger-than-she-looks super-spy Mrs. Pollifax makes a return visit to Masters of Mystery Monday! Welcome to Masters of Mystery Monday, where each week we feature a fictional detective and examine his or her unique contribution to mystery fiction. You are invited to challenge yourself with a short detective quiz, and(…)
Flashback Friday: 19thc Advice
This week’s “Flashback Friday” features advice from that 19th century household icon, Mrs. Beeton. Mrs. Beeton, courtesy of Wikipedia Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, which ran into many reprints and revised editions and is still in print today, was targeted for a middle-class readership. But how does it read these days? The following excerpt is(…)
Watercooler Wednesday: belly laughs
Yay! It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going. We all need help getting over hump-day, after all. This week’s theme: Belly Laughs Laughing relieves stress, works the abs, and triggers endorphins, the “feel(…)
Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, Master of Mystery
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. Today we’re going back in time, to ancient Rome,(…)
My guest blog for Author Piper Bayard: “The Fracturing of Empire”
Instead of my usual “Flashback Friday,” I was honored to be a guest blogger for the uber-talented Piper Bayard: The fracturing of Empire: two perspectives on the 2nd Boer War Piper’s blogging partner, Holmes, has provided a wonderfully in-depth historical account of the second Boer War (1899-1902). As a former 19th century British Lit(…)
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