Wikipedia asked me for money today. I am happy to give what I can. It’s the best starting place for research—or maybe not the best but certainly the easiest. I was going to write about chess, but I think I’ll … Continue reading
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Part I Part II Part III All right, so last time I talked about the recording and the murder. Now I want to talk about the defense story of what happened and why I had such issues with it. I … Continue reading
In Part I and Part II, I talked about things I’d learned and the initial testimony of the coroner, first cops on the scene, and the investigating detective. Now a cybernetics and forensic sound detective was called to the stand. … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I blogged here – Life has a way of eating Time – but that just means things have been building up. And it’s about to boil over in a series of “so let me get … Continue reading
If you haven’t read part one and you want to, click here. I left off last time having talked about the procedure of the courtroom and what I’d learned. Now I’ll move on to the evidence. The first person on … Continue reading
Letters have colors. A year is in the shape of an oval. A week starts out like a row of blocks, with Saturday slightly taller, and Sunday the tallest of all. Each day of the week has its own color, … Continue reading
I have a PhD in English. In my research, I focused on the Victorian period. Doing that research allowed me to dig into the reality of the Victorian period and I’d dive in and find myself in a rabbit hole. … Continue reading
A friend mentioned the other day that she’d run into a novel set in the mid-19th century in which everyone addressed each other by their first names. All the time. Under every circumstance. It was driving her nuts; her interior … Continue reading
In the aftermath of what I quickly came to call my Blessed Book, “The Secrets of Jin-shei” – the one that swept the world, was quickly published in some dozen or more languages including REALLY out-there ones like Catalan, and … Continue reading
There are always plagiarism scandals raging on the Internet somewhere. There was a particularly juicy one a few years ago that involved a romance novelist by the name of Cassie Edwards, and the black-footed ferrets. For anyone who might have … Continue reading