Tag Archives: Dead Level

Hammers, Nails, Baling Wire, and…Books?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by mcwarchives

When I first came to Eastport, Maine, I didn’t think of the local hardware store as a bookselling opportunity. But proprietor Chris Brown had other ideas. He’s descended from Samuel Bartlett Wadsworth (1791-1874), who was uncle to Maine poet Henry Wadsworth … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chandlery, crime writing, Dead Level, downeast maine, Eastport, Groundhog Day Gale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Home Repair is Homicide, Jake Tiptree, Maine, maine mysteries, mysteries, mystery writers, mystery writing, pirate festival, Sarah Graves, ships chandlery, Wadsworths | 1 Comment

A Writer’s Weather Report

Posted on October 16, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

Kate: Many years ago, when my first book came out, I was at Malice Domestic, one of the big national writers’ conferences, and I was assigned to a panel about weather. It sounded like a dull topic, just the kind … Continue reading →

Tagged A Fatal Inversion, Barbara Ross, Bulwer-Lytton, Dead Level, Elmore Leonard, Gerry Boyle, Group Post, Hooptedoodle, James Hayman, Kate Flora, Paul Doiron, Raymond Chandler, Red Wind, Rodale's Synonym Finder, Sarah Graves, Ten Rules for Writers, The Angel of Knowlton Park, The Big Sleep, The Chill of Night, The Death of an Ambitious Woman, Trespasser, weather in fiction | 2 Comments

Interview with Sarah Graves ……. Lea Wait

Posted on September 11, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

Lea: Sarah Graves’ first Home Repair is Homicide mystery, The Dead Cat Bounce, was published in 1998; her latest, Knockdown,14th in the series, was published this year. In between those books her heroine, sleuth, handywoman, and former New York financial … Continue reading →