If you write a mystery series set in Regency England, eventually you will have to send your sleuth down to Brighton, the seaside playground of the Prince Regent and his cohorts, because the possibilities for crime are too tempting to resist. Those bathing machines and bathhouses used for taking the… Read More »Taking the Cure in Regency Brighton by Libi Astaire
Imagine the horror and uncertainty which Americans experienced on 9/11 — but without modern communications — and you can begin to understand what the country felt on Dec. 7, 1941, as they began to get news of the attack on Pearl Harbor which plunged them into World War II. Teletype… Read More »A Midwestern City Gets News of the Pearl Harbor Attack by M. Ruth Myers
Before 1933, the Communist Party of Germany, the KPD, was a significant political party in Germany, with 100 seats in the Reichstag. Their main rivals were the NSDAP, the right wing Nazi Party. Running battles between the two groups were commonplace in the streets of every major city in Germany.… Read More »The KPD and The Red Orchestra by JJ Toner
One of my goals for writing the books in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series has been to feature occupations held by women in the late 19th century. Consequently, in Maids of Misfortune, Annie, my amateur sleuth, goes undercover as a domestic servant, in Uneasy Spirits, she investigates a fraudulent… Read More »Victorian Shoplifters by M. Louisa Locke
Stephen de Blois came to London, and the people received him and hallowed him to king on midwinter day. But in this king’s time was all dissension, and evil, and rapine; for against him rose soon the rich men who were traitors. Then was England very much divided. Some… Read More »The Unexpected Ally by Sarah Woodbury