Lillian Stewart Carl

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It’s Never too Hot for Murder: Three Summertime Mysteries

2015 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sharon Tucker

by Sharon Tucker

Perhaps your summer reading, like mine, involves pulling the venetian blinds mostly closed against the afternoon sun, getting the AC just right and then settling back with a good book, a glass of iced tea and finally settling in to read, going where your author takes you.

He Who Must Be Obeyed: John Mortimer and the Rumpole Stories

2012 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lillian Stewart Carl

Sir John Mortimer wrote novels, plays, and several volumes of autobiography, but the Rumpole of the Bailey stories are my favorites. So I was amused when I read in Mortimer’s part memoir, part collection of essays, Where There’s a Will, about an incident that occurred after the death of Leo McKern.