Last week I promised you more Myrtle-related Making posts in 2021. As Miss Judson would say, no time like the present!
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#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 »