Thrilled — and more than a little gobsmacked — to report that my latest standalone mystery, The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake, has just been nominated for a Claymore Award for Best Comic Novel. Harmony Dalgleish is a Woodstock native and British rock star’s son. Harmony has just flunked out of graduate school after losing […]
The Last Riddle of Ransome Peake is a Claymore Finalist!
This time, Watson & Doyle set out to investigate a classic locked-room mystery, when an unassuming librarian appears to have poisoned an entire library board. Interested? You can find it here.
The Byrdcliffe Library catalogue is now up and running on LibraryThing. Please come visit us there for updates, cover art, and additional author information.
The Byrdcliffe Library Project Has a New Home
Then please stop by Bookworms in the Wild, where host Howard Altarescu as ChatGPT that very question.
Ever Wonder What a Real AI Program Would Make of Doyle?
I was lucky enough to locate the original Byrdcliffe copy of Candace Wheeler’s How to Make Rugs. Not only does it have the Byrdcliffe bookplate, but it also has Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead’s signature on the flyleaf. l I have found no evidence that anyone at Byrdcliffe ever used the book to actually make a rug,
Candace Wheeler: How to Make Rugs
How did the Easter Bunny catch a bullet between the ears when he was alone on a moving railroad car? Season 5 of Murder to Die For is now available in both print and as an ebook at tgwolffcom.wordpress.com/publishing/. And coming just in time for Easter, you can listen to the story at tgwolffcom.wordpress.com/podcast/.
A New Watson and Doyle Short Adventure
Dyeing and Tissue-Printing by W. Crookes, F.R.S. is one of many books on textile manufacture that have the Byrdcliffe bookplate. Another in my collection is How to Make Rugs by Candace Wheeler, which bears Ralph Whitehead’s signature as well as the Byrdcliffe bookplate. Candace Wheeler is such a towering figure that she warrants an entire
Textiles and Dyeing at Byrdcliffe: Marie Little and The Looms
I’m celebrating Tuesday with my friends from MWA-NY. If you’re in the neighborhood, please stop by and raise a glass!
Happy Book Birthday Brooklyn North Murder!
This post began life as a post on Henry Morley and Francis T. Palgrave as two classic examples of 19th century literary scholars. However, my happy discovery of the Byrdcliffe edition of The Golden Treasury courtesy of Lowell Thing, bookseller and fellow collector, changed my focus — but only slightly. I have long been fascinated
Francis T. Palgrave and Collection as Literary Criticism
