Detectives Beyond Borders interviews yours truly

Detectives Beyond Borders is a web site dedicated to non-US mystery books. It's run by Peter Rozovsky, who's the book reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and a copy editor of exceptionally high standards.

Detectives Beyond Borders interviewed me, Rebecca Cantrell and I.J. Parker on the mystery of writing historical mysteries. Peter was particularly interested in the "historical" part of historical mysteries, and a fun time I had answering the questions.

2 comments:

Peter Rozovsky said...

Many thanks for your copious and entertaining answers. I enjoyed the glimpse at how you, Rebecca, and I.J. approach your work. ======================
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
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Peter Rozovsky said...

Gary, here's Alexander Hamilton from Federalist Paper #6, "Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States":

"The celebrated Pericles, in compliance with the resentment of a prostitute at the expense of much of the blood and treasure of his countrymen, attacked, vanquished, and destroyed the city of the SAMNIANS. The same man, stimulated by private pique against the MEGARENSIANS another nation of Greece, or to avoid a prosecution with which he was threatened as an accomplice of a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the PELOPONNESIAN war; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth."
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/