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Salvador Dali and Me, a Body and a Mystery

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Barbara Ross

by Barb, on a deadline again, (actually two) Portland, Maine A couple of weeks ago, I was in St. Petersburg, Florida for Bouchercon, the worldwide mystery conference. It was an excellent conference at an historic hotel, and of course, it’s … Continue reading →

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Role Models?

Posted on February 14, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora here, watching the snow come down. For lunch today, I was eating a bowl of lentil soup and reading about Diana Nyad in the New Yorker. When I was growing up on a farm in Union, Maine, I … Continue reading →

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The Kindness of Writers by Barbara Ross

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Barbara Ross

So my mom died. I’ll write about that someday, probably soon, but I’m not ready. What I want to write about is the incredible kindness of writers. One of the things I loved about my corporate life was working with … Continue reading →

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Reading Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by Barbara Ross

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Barbara Ross

I’ve been reading Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by John Curran. This fascinating book, which won the Agatha Award for best non-fiction in 2011 and was nominated for an Edgar, contains the first detailed analysis of the seventy-three notebooks Dame Agatha … Continue reading →

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