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 Hardcastle Mysteries
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 »
#MyrtleMondays: Help Find Peony!
Dear Reader, Myrtle Hardcastle’s loyal sidekick, Peony the Cat, has gone missing in Instagram! Is she lost, catnapped, or off hunting suspects? You can help find her, and win a Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries prize pack from Algonquin Young Readers!