June 17, 2026
A Walking Tour of Wexcombe
From the Pump Room to the churchyard at St Aldhelm's, a stroll through the spa town where it all happens, and the real places that inspired its elegant, secretive streets.
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Notes from the writing desk, on tea, the Regency, the craft of a fair-play mystery, and the occasional dispatch from Wexcombe.
June 17, 2026
From the Pump Room to the churchyard at St Aldhelm's, a stroll through the spa town where it all happens, and the real places that inspired its elegant, secretive streets.
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June 16, 2026
The cozy promise: every clue the sleuth sees, the reader sees too. A look at how Hetty's ghosts can point the way without ever solving the case, and why that rule makes the puzzle better.
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June 15, 2026
The betrothal ledgers, calling cards, miniature portraits, and silver smelling-salts of a Regency marriage-maker, plus a short history of the curious trade that gave them their purpose.
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June 14, 2026
Sir Crispin Fanshawe has been dead 140 years and has no intention of being useful about it. On writing a ghost who is all wit, no answers, and why the funniest character is also the saddest.
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June 13, 2026
The cozy classics and Regency delights that inspired the Elegant Specter Mysteries, from country-house puzzles to drawing-room romance, with a pot of something steeping nearby.
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