by mike | Jan 5, 2023 | Books, Death, Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Films, Mystery Novels, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
Midsomer Murders is our absolute favorite show! Or is that “favourite”? This post first ran in 2019. There are not many TV series that survive for two decades. But England’s detective drama, Midsomer Murders, has been aired on ITV for even longer, with the...
by mike | Sep 26, 2022 | Books, Humor, Mysteries, Mystery Novels, Mystery Series, Romance, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
My bride and I have gotten hooked on a new “dark comedy/mystery” series on Acorn TV. Recipes for Love and Murder, based on the Tannie Maria mystery novels of Sally Andrew, takes place in the rural South African town of Eden. That’s a misnomer, because this Eden is...
by mike | Jul 19, 2021 | Mystery Novels, Native Americans, Uncategorized |
Abe Lincoln, our 16th president, is remembered for a great many achievements. The commissioning of the Lincoln Canes is probably not one of them…but it should be. ACKNOWLEDGING THE PUEBLOS I first read about the Lincoln Canes in Tony Hillerman’s novel, Sacred Clowns,...
by mike | Jul 20, 2020 | Aging, Mystery Films, Mystery Novels, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
She’s old; she’s short; she’s disheveled; she’s irascible. She’s also brilliant. She’s Detective Chief Inspector Vera Stanhope, head of the Major Crimes unit of England’s (fictional) Northumberland & City Police. DCI Stanhope is the main protagonist in a...
by mike | Jan 6, 2020 | Death, Humor, Mystery Films, Mystery Novels, TV Shows, Uncategorized |
My bride and I have gotten hooked on Murdoch Mysteries, a popular, award-winning Canadian television series on Acorn that, to all intent and purpose, might as well be called CSI: Nineteenth Century. We’re into the fifth season as of this writing, and given that the...
by mike | Dec 5, 2019 | Adventure fantasy, Aging, Books, Fantasy, Life, Mystery Novels, Psychological Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
Since first presenting this post in 2016, I’ve read a heck of a lot more books just for fun. As one of my fridge magnets says, “Yaay Books!” Like most Americans these days, I worked full-time into my late sixties. During all my adult years I probably could have made...
