Posts Tagged: historical mystery
Margaret (Gail) Frazer, the author of the Dame Frevisse Mysteries and the Joliffe Player Mysteries (both set in medieval England), died last week at age 66, after a long fight with breast cancer. In honor of her legacy, here’s my post from 2011 (with some updating) about her amateur sleuth, Dame Frevisse. Enjoy! Be the…
October: the month for general spookiness. Halloween ghosts, tombstones, skeletons, etc, have been popping up in my yard/neighborhood, and probably in yours, too. Even in my historical mystery-writing, it’s been all about the spooky lately. I’ve been elbow-deep in a scene where my spirit medium character, Madame Durand, attempts to get answers from the spirit…
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,…
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. As we continue our “religious” series of fictional detectives, we…
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. Picking up from two weeks ago when Ralph McInerny’s…
