Well, Dear Reader, we’re almost there: time to say farewell (or good riddance?) to 2020 and hello to 2021! New Year’s Day is my second favorite holiday (after Hallowe’en). I just love the brimming potential and possibility of the coming months, all the exciting new plans afoot! I’m hard at work on Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries… Read more »
December 2020
#MyrtleMondays: A Sherlockian Christmas
Mystery fans, I have a Christmas treat for you today! In January, 1892, The Strand magazine published Arthur Conan Doyle’s one and only Sherlock Holmes story set at Christmastime.
Myrtle Mondays: ‘Tis the Season to be Spooky—the ghost stories of a Victorian Christmas
The experienced reader knows it was Christmas Eve, without my telling him. It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story. …For ghost stories to be told on any other evening than the evening of the twenty-fourth of December would be impossible in English society as at present regulated. –Jerome K. Jerome, “Told After Supper,”… Read more »