I have signed up for a second year of The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, a community meme sponsored by Mysteries in Paradise.
Each week she'll be expecting participants to produce a post featuring a
mystery/crime novel or novelist related to that week's letter.
I hope our hostess and my fellow alphabet tourists will forgive me for wandering aimlessly about this summer and totally losing my way. I skipped out on "J," managed to rejoin the group for "K," and got lost again on "L" and "M." So....we're all ready for "N," are we? Okay....
N is for Meredith Nicholson (hey! this could make up for me missing "M" too!). What do you mean you never heard of Meredith Nicholson? Why, he's that best-selling author (newspaperman, politician, and diplomat) from Indiana. Most of his writing focuses on the triumph of young love over various obstacles thrown in its path. This is true, in a way, even of the mystery novel that I read this year. He was born in 1866 in Crawfordsville and had three books hit the bestseller list:
For a much better look at Meredith Nicholson than I've given here, please click on his name. And for a review of The House of a Thousand Candles, please click above.
- The House of a Thousand Candles (#4 in 1906)
- The Port of Missing Men (#3 in 1907)
- A Hoosier Chronicle (#5 in 1912)
For a much better look at Meredith Nicholson than I've given here, please click on his name. And for a review of The House of a Thousand Candles, please click above.
7 comments:
Bev - Now see? I lived right next door so to speak in Illinois for a few years and never knew about Indiana's Golden Age either. Bad Margot! But I am glad you featured Nicholson for this meme. He's an author whose work I've never read and ought to try.
And I lived in Ohio and Pennsylvania and never knew either. The things ya learn. :)
Add me to the list of people who never knew Indiana had such a rich history, although I did read the other day that 80% of all RV's are made in your state. And why did I think you lived in Kansas?
Sounds like a fun thing to do, but I doubt I could keep up.
Stopping by from the Partners in Crime Host List of Hosts...been here before visiting as well.
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
http://silversolara.blogspot.com
Carol: I have no idea why you thought I lived Kansas. And, no, I don't have a dog named Toto, either. :-)
Sounds really interesting Bev. Will be on the look out for his books!
Interesting. Goes way back. :)
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