Never give up hope. The week before Art on Chocolate 2017 in downtown Hershey, we were looking at 100% chance of rain and unseasonably cool temperatures. Weather predictions in the midstate are notoriously unreliable, but day after day, as we pulled together the equipment and worked on the books, the numbers didn’t change. We braced […]
The Peschel Press of Hershey, Pa., announced the publication of the second book in the series of books collecting Sherlock Holmes Victorian Era parodies and pastiches. “Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899” collects more than 60 examples of stories, songs, poems, and jokes that appeared during the opening chapters of Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary […]
The Dead Man found himself a friend in Bill Peschel. The novella “Hell’s Casino” was recently added to Amazon’s Kindle Worlds section of the website. [UPDATE 180722: Kindle Words has closed, but the book can still be bought at Amazon!] Created by TV producer Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin, the Dead Man series features Matt […]
To the residents of Rugeley, William Palmer was a country doctor with a wife and family and an interest in raising and betting on race horses. When his gambling companion John Parsons Cook died in agony at the inn across the street, the locals thought it suspicious. In the past few years, Palmer’s wife and […]
After introducing Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” Agatha Christie wanted to try something different for her second book. Something fun. Something easy to write, because plotting a mystery took a lot out of her. Plus, the family needed money, and even though she earned only £25 for “Styles,” the […]