• A Purley Private Matter,  Appearances,  Darcie Wilde,  Rosalind Thorne

    It’s the Holidays!

    TIME TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1899!!! And I’ll be doing my partying at the fabulous Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop on Saturday Dec. 9.  Starting at 2pm I’ll be joining Con Lahene who writes the 42nd Street Library mysteries, and Patricia Abbott, author of SHOT IN DETROIT; AND legal thriller writer and attorney Mark Bello; AND Judy Lee Burke, author of BLACKROCK AND Meg Macy, author of BEARLY DEPARTED. There will be snacks.  More importantly there will be books.  You should be there too.

  • Darcie Wilde,  Writing

    Longest Title Ever

    When doing historical research, you end up reading strange books with strange titles.  Take, for instance, this classic that was written for young men reading law in the Inner Temple by one Mr. John Impey: The Practice of the Office of the Sheriff; Shewing  The Powers and Duties of those Offices. The Manner of Appointing the High Sheriff, the Under Sheriff and their Deputies. The Elections of the Serrifs of London and Middlesex with the Bye-Laws of the City Relating Thereto. The Nature of Actions by and Against Sheriffs Including All the Modern Determinations and Necesary Precedents of Retursn to Writs &c. Also The Practice of the Office of the…