THANK YOU to all who read yesterday's blog - very flattering

 

WHODUNIT ?

First of all a BIG THANK YOU to all who read yesterday's blog.

Now can I share the third book I wrote last year in 2020 then can I share something I wrote earlier this year set in the grounds of Agatha Christie’s home in Devon.

Book Number: Three

Title: Lottery OfEvil

Date of Publication: Tuesday 31st March 2020

Genre: Crime Fiction

Word Total: 12,583 ESTIMATED

Star Rating: ***  (In my humble and arrogant opinion that is !)

A number of years ago I put out a survey on social media asking people what was their favourite genre of reading. The answer overwhelmingly came back saying crime fiction. This was something I had never tried but I decided to give it a go. On Thursday 9th March 2017 I published The

Case Files of Dave McDetmott and found out just how much I could enjoy writing whodunit stories. Writing yes but when it comes to reading other authors this is not my thing. The way Detective McDermott investigates cases is unique, he builds up something of a relationship with the perpetrator of the crime. Anyway, having published The Case Files of Dave McDermott that was that. I did, however, have an idea for another case he needed to solve: The Lottery Of Evil. I actually started to plan and draft the story but nothing more happened. Again when the pandemic hit and I was sitting about with little to do I picked up the idea and made it happen. I think that the career of Dave McDermott is over in my future writing but as you read on you will see how I have invented a couple of new detective teams and have been writing more and more crime fiction.

How much fun did I have writing this story ?  I enjoyed putting this tale together, yeh it was fun.

I enjoy writing crime fiction but I hope my stories are different to the normal whodunit novels. I am certainly not a fan of Whodunit Queen Agatha Christie with her crazy plots and totally unreal characters such as a fat Frenchman pretending to be Belgian and a village spinster busybody with her nose into everyone’s business supposedly solving crimes the police can not comprehend.

No, I am not a fan of Agatha Christie, not never no way but I am a fan of her home Greenway on the bank of the River Dart in Devon. I visited Greenway, now owned and managed by The National Trust, in the autumn of 2020 and fell in love with the place. Lovely natural parkland in which is set a large house which was Agatha’s holiday home. Large that house may be but its rooms are comfortable, warm and welcoming. I could certainly live there and believe the place could be an inspiration for me to write many stories.

Walking through the parkland in Autumn 2020 I took a photograph of a tree which I have used for the cover of this short story. It immediately inspired me to write a whodunit adventure by the name of The Murder Tree. I wrote this story across a few days in early June 2021. I then took that draft back with me to Greenway where I wrapped it in the atmosphere of Agatha’s

former home before rewriting the story you are about to read.

I do hope you enjoy it.

THANK YOU to all who read yesterday's blog - very flattering  - I hope you enjoy today's edition.

Speak again tomorrow.

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