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Sample an issue of The Illustrated Harper & MacTavish Reader free . . . then decide!
Shhhh . . . secret scoop—AUDIO CDs of "The Casebook of MacTavish" stories are available!
MYSTERIES & MUSIC: Daniel Elton Harmon is back "on tour"—this time adding historical mystery story readings to his traditional folk ballad bag. . . .
Complete transcript of the March-April 2010 interview with Daniel Elton Harmon in his hometown newspaper (for which he once reported), The Lexington County Chronicle.
Our two crime reporter sleuths
are back at work. . . .
Join Harper and his niece in unraveling an embezzlement ring in South Carolina's capital city, circa 1890. Ride with MacTavish "Aboard the Asheville Train" to spoil a clever theft. Discover an Arthur Conan Doyle fact-based mystery written before Sherlock Holmes became a household name.
Such is the content of The Illustrated Harper & MacTavish Reader, the new e-magazette that arrived in subscribers' inboxes on 2 January. Published at the beginning of the quarter, each issue presents one Harper story, one MacTavish story, notes on period crimes and criminals, glimpses into remarkable South Carolina events and lifestyles of the period, and a quiz to challenge your knowledge of criminal history.
AND HANG ONTO YOUR GALLUSES! Subscribers receive new, never-before-published Harper and MacTavish "cliffhanger" serials in weekly installments! Follow Harper on the trail of "The Missing Corpse." Enjoy an afternoon snooze at MacTavish' idyllic campsite retreat—only to be stabbed awake by "The Scream in the Mountain Hollow." Sense the eeriness of "The Cemetery of the Insane" . . . and help solve the obscure cold case that established it.
CLICK HERE for details. . . .
Read the author's ongoing blog
for nuggets of history, humor & assorted entries.
Visit Mysterious Expeditions
for information & observations on historical mystery facts & fiction.
At
Voices of Sherlock Holmes,
you'll find notes on 70 years of audio/video productions of Holmesian mystery fiction.
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Harper is at the scene. . . . Along dusty country lanes, muddy
capital city streets, rail lines and stage routes across late-19th-century
South Carolina, the indomitable, eccentric crime reporter for the fledgling
Columbia Challenge makes his way
through a bizarre assortment of mysteries and intrigues. Are there embezzlement
schemes in the wind? Buried secrets? Escaped convicts? Strange apparitions?
Desperate brigands? Harper is on the scent, pen in his hand, pipe in his mouth,
Bible in his correspondent’s satchel. Daniel Elton Harmon’s The Chalk Town Train & Other Tales, the first volume in “The Harper Chronicles” short story series, was published in October 2001 by Trafford Publishing. Click the book cover for a list of stories, a savory sampler, press comments and other information. Rose T. Wilkins, book columnist for Sandlapper
Magazine, calls the Harper tales “fascinating stories of adventure . . . a
trip back in time that is hard to put down.” Jerry Bellune of The Lexington County Chronicle rates them as “page turners that possess the tone and
color and drama of literature.” Want to receive an autographed copy, shipped via first-class mail? Click here for ordering information. ****************************
Now in its second year of monthly magazine serialization! The adventures of MacTavish, Harper's young contemporary crime reporter based in upstate Spartanburg, South Carolina, during the late 1800s are chronicled monthly in Boiling Springs Today magazine. CLICK HERE for details. **************************** From the Chronicler's Personal News Desk "VINTAGE SHORT MYSTERY CLASSICS": A series of some of my favorite short stories by literary greats now can be downloaded in e-book format—free! You'll find stories of crime, intrigue and the macabre by authors including Tolstoi, Edwards, Poe, Bierce, Dickens and many others. New e-booklets are being added each month. These are classic stories of old, now in the public domain. Retrieve them at "Vintage Short Mystery Classics." MYSTERY WRITING SECRETS: "Good Old Index," Daniel Elton Harmon's research tips for historical mystery writers, has been published online in Rosalie Stafford's Web Mystery Magazine. PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE: Harmon's Men of the Bible, reprinted several times since its original 1997 release, has been merged with Colleen Reece' Women of the Bible and Julie Reece-DeMarco's Children of the Bible into a single volume titled 128 of the Greatest Stories From the Bible (Barbour Publishing). INTRIGUING BIBLE FACTS: Harmon's Bible quiz book has been published by CrossAmerica Books (www.crossings.com). BibleChallenge: Small Facts From the Big Book contains more than 100 categorized quiz sets. BEST-SELLING HUMOR: Of the four "Great Clean Jokes" volumes Harmon wrote in the 1990s for Barbour Publishing (www.barbourbooks.com), the original Great Clean Jokes for Kids remains in print. It's one of three "kid-tested, parent-approved best-sellers" described in Barbour's "Children's & Youth Catalog." More than 125,000 copies of the book have been sold. =======
NEWS EXTRA -- Reviewer and newsgroup co-moderator
Rachel A Hyde of Devon, England, included The Chalk Town Train & Other Tales
among her CrimeThruTime Top 10 books of 2001! Read her full review here. |
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