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The Enchanted Garden at the Museum of Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond, Virginia. Behind the fountain is the Poe Shrine, constructed with bricks and granite from the building in which Poe edited The Southern Literary Messenger. Admirers of Poe meet here for monthly Unhappy Hours.
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Greetings!
Right after Malice Domestic, Brian and I took a vacation in Virginia. As we drove around that lovely state, we found much evidence of one of our favorite writers: Edgar Allan Poe. We particularly enjoyed visiting Richmond's Museum of Edgar Allan Poe with its outstanding collection of artifacts and its passionate devotion to all things EAP. The lovely Enchanted Garden, shown above, was the perfect place to spend a warm spring afternoon. We highly recommend it!
According to the Museum, Poe considered gardens to be one of the highest art forms. The Enchanted Garden is fashioned after his poem:
To One in Paradise
Thou wast that all to me, love For which my soul did pine- A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed in fruit and flowers And all the flowers were mine...
We're putting the final touches on Mystery Scene's Summer Issue which will be arriving at your doorsteps in a few weeks. Until then, this enews offers some articles and reviews to keep you entertained. Enjoy!
Best, Kate Stine Editor in chief |
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Ed Gorman on Reading
Charles Williams and
Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
"I have nothing against contemporary writers. This is indisputably the true Golden Age of crime fiction. So many, many contemporary writers have taken the traditions and tropes of our field and turned them into rich, new, and exciting jewels. And this goes for all the genres and subgenres from hardboiled and noir to traditional and cozy.
Maybe it's my age - or the fact that I'm a sentimental fool - but I'm still fascinated by those that brought us to the dance in the first place."
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 Ed Gorman's latest is Blindside (Severn, June 2012) "Writers on Reading" is a special ongoing Mystery Scene series available as a first-look exclusive to our newsletter subscribers.
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The best of both worlds. Who says
you can't have your donut ice cream sandwich and eat it, too?
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Mystery Lovers' Kitchen:
June Donuts & Chocolate Ice Cream
Despite the beginning of swimsuit season, June is the perfect month to celebrate both donuts and chocolate ice cream. (Donut Day and Chocolate Ice Cream Day, what a month!)
The authors at Mystery Lovers' Kitchen have shared a wonderful donut recipe, a fabulous chocolate peanut-butter ice cream recipe, and a hot fudge recipe to keep you properly fueled for mystery watching and reading. Do you scream for chocolate ice cream? Or do you wanna know whodonut?
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Arthur Ellis Award Winners
The winners for the Arthur Ellis Awards were announced at the Arthur Ellis Awards Gala, May 30, 2013.
The awards were given for the best Canadian crime writing published in 2012 in seven crime-writing categories: novel, first novel, nonfiction/true crime, juvenile, short story, book in the French language, and the novella.
Congratulations to all the award winners. Winners on our blog at MysterySceneMag.com
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the prestigious awards, named after the nom de travail of Canada's official hangman.
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Father's Day Overheard: Dad With a Deadly Dilemma
 | | Father Knows Death, released this month, is the latest in the Stay At Home Mystery series. |
The dead man in the backseat of my minivan wore a T-shirt that read IT'S NOT A BEER BELLY. IT'S A FUEL TANK FOR A SEX MACHINE...
But, at that moment, I was more concerned with the blood encircling the knife in his chest, why he was in my car in the parking lot of Cooper's Market, and keeping my three-year-old daughter from seeing his corpse.
- Aaron Tucker in Stay at Home Dead (Kensington, 2012), by Jeffrey Allen, the pseudonym of Jeff Shelby, who is the author of the series featuring a stay-at-home dad. |
Winners of Chris Culver's The Abbey and The Outsider 2-book package
 Melinda S. (Austin, Texas)
Joyce D. (Bayville, New Jersey)
Bernadine M. (Morristown, Arizona)
Charles J. (Townsend, Tennessee)
Cathy Jo B. (Columbus, Indiana)
Thank you to all who entered and congrats to our winners.
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A look at the creator of Brother Cadfael.
A groundbreaking cartoon and one of the coolest things ever on the tube.
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