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America’s Agatha Christie by Julia Spencer-Fleming
I’m writing this in Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, one of the spots that has defined “summering in Maine” for more than a century. I have a spectacular view of Frenchman’s Bay, with the sun rising...
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Mr. Rockefeller’s Roads — by Lea Wait
It all started, I was told by a Mainer with 5 generations of Bar Harbor carpenters in her genes, with a stubborn, pregnant, woman. Never mind that her father-in-law was the founder of Standard Oil....
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You Pronounce it HOW?
I’ve posted here before about fictional names for Maine towns, talking first about Storybrooke and Cabot Cove http://www.mainecrimewriters.com/kaitlyns-posts/collinsport-to-storybrooke and later about...
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A New England Tradition: The Boston Post Cane
Lea Wait here. You know the stories you grew up with, the things that you thought everyone knew? Well, for me the story of the Boston Post Cane is one of those. I don’t remember when I first heard...
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The Comfort Factor
Kaitlyn Dunnett here. This was going to be a post about Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958), one of the earliest and most successful American women mystery writers. When I realized she qualified as a...
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Hot Off The Press! Photos from Murder by the Book
Brenda Buchanan, here, with some on-the-scene photos from Jesup Library in beautiful Bar Harbor, where many of us who kill on the page converged this weekend to participate in the inaugural Murder by...
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Lea Wait, here. Just returned from a book-related weekend. Unlike many Maine Crime Writers … I wasn’t at Bouchercon. Instead, I was at the Bar Harbor Kids Book Festival. Attendance was a little lower...
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Into the Flow
Last October I had the great pleasure of taking part in the first annual Murder by the Book, a two day event held at Bar Harbor’s historic Jesup Memorial Library. Is there anything more inspiring than...
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Weekend Update: October 1-2, 2016
Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Monday), Maureen Milliken (Tuesday), Barb Ross (Wednesday), Dick Cass (Thursday), and Lea Wait (Friday). In...
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Introducing Eggnog Murder and Christmas Traditions
by Barb, who’s finally admitting the days are getting shorter, the temperatures colder. Sigh. This is official Kensington release week for Eggnog Murder in hardcover, ebook and audiobook. The large...
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Recharged
Bruce Robert Coffin here, wishing you all a happy November. I hope that you came out of our latest doozy of a storm relatively unscathed. Mother Nature has a habit of reminding us just how good we have...
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America’s Agatha Christie by Julia Spencer-Fleming
I’m writing this in Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island, one of the spots that has defined “summering in Maine” for more than a century. I have a spectacular view of Frenchman’s Bay, with the sun rising...
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