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Me? A Criminal?
Dorothy Cannell here: Bleak confession: Unlike my longtime amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell and, more recently, Florence Norris, I’ve never had any desire to stick my nose anywhere near police business, even if it involved nothing more ominous than a lunch break. … Continue reading
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Never Too Many Books
Dorothy Cannell: Had a wonderful time at Malice meeting up with writer and reader friends. Also spending blissful time in the bookroom splurging on new and out of print titles. Afterwards my husband Julian and I drove Margaret Maron and her … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Gilbert, Booklist, Crum Creek Press, Death at Dovecote Hatch, Dorothy Cannell, Helen Reilly, Jim Huang, Kirkus Reviews, Leslie Ford, Malice Domestic, Margaret Maron, Publishers Weekly, Rae Foley, Sara Woods, Second Time Around Books, They Died in Vain
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Sometime or Dorothy Cannell Considers Reform
Dorothy Cannell: This coming Thursday morning my husband and I will be setting off on a drive to Washington, D.C.; well, a little disagreement regarding the day. I claim that a 4 a.m. departure makes it Wednesday night. That’s what procrastinators … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Cannell, Down the Garden Path, Hyacinth and Primrose, Joan Hess, Malice Domestic
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Would You Believe?
Dorothy Cannell here. A few weeks ago my husband Julian mentioned that he was joining the Masons. Mentioned – not announced, let alone confessed. To say I was shocked to the core puts it mildly. If he’d said he’d decided to become … Continue reading
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Tagged Bunter, Dorothy Cannell, Florence Norris, Lord Peter Wimsey, Masons, Miss Marple, Poirot
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Where to Begin?
Dorothy Cannell here: In response to a request from publisher I spent the better part of last week slogging out an outline for the third book in my mystery series featuring Florence Norris, housekeeper at an ancestral home in the English village … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Cannell, Dovecote Hatch, Peril in the Parish, The Dreaded Outline
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First Love
Dorothy Cannell: My first book The Thin Woman was published in 1984. After some serious finger counting (my math level being a first grade C-) I realized that’s thirty years ago. Hard on the heels of that thought came the memory … Continue reading
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When Inspiration Fails
Dorothy Cannell: Occasionally, as in now having just finished a book, I feel squeezed dry of syllables, let alone even short words. I wilt under the weight of admitting that writing is a job, that my nasty employer (self) heaps on … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Cannell, Murder at the Vicarage, The Bishop's Wife, The Vicar's Wife
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Off, Off, and Away
Dorothy Cannell here: In forty five minutes, it would be shorter if my husband had his way, we will be leaving for a writers conference in Indiana. I am not packed, and I have yet to have a bath. I look … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Cannell, Indiana, Magna Cum Murder, writers conferences
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Life Between Worlds
Dorothy Cannell, freshly out of writer’s jail, has this to report: This past month has been another of those times when I exist in a fuzzy state of being on reaching the end of a book, this one Death in Dovecote … Continue reading
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Tagged Butlers, Death in Dovecote House, Dorothy Cannell, Murder at Mullings
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