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Patricia Meredith

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Patricia Meredith is an author of historical and cozy mysteries. When she’s not writing, she’s playing board games with her husband, creating imaginary worlds with her two children, or out in the garden reading a good book with a cup of tea. Patricia's first series, the Spokane Clock Tower Mysteries, is the product of uncovering fascinating local history circa 1901, making it the first historical mystery series set in Spokane, Washington. Her second series about Anna Katharine Green is the first and only historical fiction featuring the Mother of Detective Fiction. Her mysteries are clean, cozy reads known for their quirky yet believable characters.

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Patricia Meredith I would go to A.A. Milne's Hundred Acre Wood and join Winnie-the-Pooh in a leisurely stroll through the forest, say hello to all our friends, and shar…moreI would go to A.A. Milne's Hundred Acre Wood and join Winnie-the-Pooh in a leisurely stroll through the forest, say hello to all our friends, and share a pot of honey.(less)
Patricia Meredith Fifteen years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, Anna Katharine Green began writing The Leavenworth Case, inspiring the creat…moreFifteen years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, Anna Katharine Green began writing The Leavenworth Case, inspiring the creation of detectives like Sherlock, Poirot, and Wimsey, as well as almost every device and convention we now recognize as standard in detective mystery fiction.

When her father's client is found murdered, Anna takes up the call to prove innocent the young girl accused of the murder. The investigation inspires many of the events, characters, and descriptions that would later be published in her debut novel.

A love letter to mystery and writing itself, A Deed of Dreadful Note is an homage and reintroduction to an author who was the Agatha Christie of her time but a forgotten female today.

This book is a fictionalized account of how Anna Katharine Green’s first novel may have come to be…

A Deed of Dreadful Note, first in the Anna Katharine Green Mysteries, is the first and only historical fiction ever written featuring the Mother of Detective Fiction!

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Agatha Christie’s Birthday

Happy birthday, Agatha Christie!

In honor of her birthday, pick up copies of these books that Agatha Christie recommends herself, inspired her own writing, and are written in the style of Agatha Christie!

The Leavenworth Case

Agatha Christie herself mentions The Leavenworth Case in her autobiography, naming it as one of the mysteries that set her on the path to her own writing.

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