At the beginning of A Twist of Fortune, Sergeant Winston Windflower watches in dismay as his girlfriend, Sheila, gets arrested during an illegal protest at the local fish plant. Then a snowstorm hits Grand Bank, Newfoundland, and a pharmacist dies in a car accident on the highway. What seems to be a straightforward investigation turns out to be a lot more when a body is discovered in the trunk of the…
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From Venetian canals to Arizona desert, locales play critical role in mysteries
The following is a guest post by Mark Bacon, author of Death in Nostalgia City. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple belongs in an English drawing room in St. Mary Mead or perhaps somewhere in Cornwall. Author Raymond Chandler often stuck Philip Marlow in some dark alley in LA. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser inhabited…
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Did you know that Agatha Christie had a learning disability called dysgraphia?
She had problems with handwriting and spelling. As a result, she had to dictate all her novels. She also had difficulty with arithmetic and foreign language learning. Other fun facts about the author: Agatha Christie has sold more than 2 billion books worldwide. She wrote more than 90 novels and two dozen collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than a hundred languages. Her father died of pneumonia when she…