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The Bloody Tower review

10/03/2011

 
There's a nice review of The Bloody Tower on the Criminal History website.
<www.criminal-history.co.uk/page12.html>

Click on New Reviews, then on Golden Age.

And explore the rest of the site--lots of good stuff here.


 

Missing Daisies

07/25/2011

 
Today my UK publisher fills in the last gap in the Daisy series with GUNPOWDER PLOT and  THE BLOODY TOWER.  
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Available at all bookshops in the UK, and in the US at Seattle Mystery Bookshop or online at TheBookDepository
 

Missing Daisies now available in UK

07/18/2011

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Or should it be missing Daisys, as it's a proper name?

Be that as it may, today Die Laughing, A Mourning Wedding, and Fall of a Philanderer came out in the UK.
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Daisy goes to the dentist--but he's not going to be filling any teeth today!
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Daisy's friend Lucy is getting married--or is she?
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Murder can ruin your seaside holiday...
Next week it's Gunpowder Plot and The Bloody Tower:
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A fireworks show is the perfect time to shoot someone!
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Adding to the list of unnatural deaths at the Tower of London...
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Bloody Tower research

12/29/2010

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A reader just commented on the research that went into writing The Bloody Tower. I thought I'd share with you what I told her.


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UK edition
Researching the Tower was fun. I picked up a book about the history years ago, just in case I ever needed it. Then I found the email address of the librarian there (Royal Armouries Library--no longer at the Tower). Not only was she very helpful about answering my questions, when I went over she arranged a pass for me and had a whole box of books and papers waiting that she thought might be useful, including the Governor's Day Book for the week Daisy was there!

I took loads of photos, of course (though it was a bitterly cold day and I nearly froze in the process!), but when I got home, I discovered I had none of the place where the body is found. Unbelievably, a friend/reader in Canada just then told me he was going to the UK and asked if he could do any research for me. I said if he just happened to be going to the Tower... He did go, and took great pics of the spot--[Thanks, Gray!]
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Daisy found the body at the foot of these steps.

[one of Graham's photos]
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This is The Queen's House (King's, in Daisy's time), where Daisy spent the night. The arch at the bottom is the entrance to the foot of the stairs.


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The entrance to the tunnel under the Bloody Tower itself.
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US paperback
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