Neither do I! Although that could be because I haven’t signed up yet. So much effort…
Ooh! If I promise not to pull a Rudyard* can I sign up too?
*unless I really have to
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Yup. Although not looking forward to having Toyah singing 'Its A Mystery" in my head until 23rd March…
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I should also point out, that I am not, in any way, old enough to know who Toyah is.
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An email in my inbox from NIAD. Pigfender and the crew are about to get up to their old shenanigans. Fantastic!
saw you on tele.
Weren’t you born in a car wreck?
Yeah, what’s that to you?
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Do love a good mystery
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I like it! A marriage counsellor that specialises in helping people in healthy marriages. Their slogan can be: “For Pete’s sake, don’t change anything.”
MISS MARPLE: I think, Hercule my old friend, that this will be a much more pleasant diversion for us now that we’re getting a bit too old to be schlumping around the countryside on trains chasing homicidal psychopaths.
POIROT: You don’t think, madam, that we will miss the murders?
MISS MARPLE: Show me a truly happy marriage, Hercule, and I will show you the murders.
POIROT: But surely, you do not think that in order to be happy a coupl…
MISS MARPLE: (squints eyes) I WILL SHOW YOU.
Who are your favourite mystery authors?
I mean, I love Queen Agatha, of course. Robert B Parker is my favourite author in any genre, and then you can extend that lineage all the way back to Chandler and Co. Plus, massive shout outs to Craig Johnson, Michael Connelly and John Sandford whose series I am all currently working through.
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Can’t beat good Agatha Christie book or Conan Doyle both classic must reads and then bit John Grisham, Lee Childs, James Patterson, Dan Brown, Robert Parker. Just starting from beginning Kathy Reichs series and rewatching Silent Witness series. Haram Coben is a favourite. I am constantly reading take kindle everywhere but still prefer a real book.
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So I took one of each out behind the wood shed. I applied much switch and belt. While throughly “beaten”, as was the way of my forefathers, the books shed not a tear.
You can, in fact, beat them, but reading them seems more apropos to their design. Unless you just need exercise. Then maybe beating them is valid. I might suggest the phonebook for that though. Yes, I still get phonebooks. How else am I to get exercise?
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I would like to sign up too.
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Well, I was going to leave my participation a mystery – a kind of signature opening, a shot across the brow, if you will [oh, dear, a body dropped already] – but, um, that wasn’t working for some reason. Sigh. So yes, please sign me up, Mr. Hamfender.
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I think I’d love to give this a shot. Mystery is my genre, but not usually historical ones, so this should be a lovely challenge! Sign me up!
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I think the Lippincot dinner is not meant to be the subject of your story, nor its setting. Any mystery story, broadly construed, is fair game.
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Okay, I’m in. Just a little arm twisting involved.
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Count me in. Have a weekend carved out. Just need an idea. Shouldn’t be to hard right?
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gr is correct. You can absolutely write a historical mystery if that’s what inspires you, but equally you can go any direction within the general prompt of “mystery” that your mind takes you. Sci Fi mystery? Sure. Romantic? Absolutely. Full on private eye detective story to make Sam Spade proud? Awesome!
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If we are “telling a story” that means that the event has been observed and therefore happened. While not all parties agree that time is purely linear, we do experience it linearly in our existence. One can not tell a story that has not been experienced which requires time to have passed for the observer to have he experiencing moment. Hence, all mysteries provided to NiaD will be historical. Technically.
Just sayin’.
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I hear what you’re saying, but (and thank you for the opportunity to earn the Haiku Sparkle!)…
I’ll kill her next week
They’ll likely guess it was me
But they won’t know why
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Two can play this game.
When we know the truth
Time will have passed us by
All is history
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