MYSTERY AUTHOR-THANK YOU

All Mystery Authors....STAND UP AND TAKE A BOW TODAY.....MALICE DOMESTIC STARTS TODAY...and I for one can't wait to hear all about it and I can't help but think about all the authors no longer with us that I feel we carry in spirit on a WEEKEND like this one.
So when you're shopping for that next mystery, or reading a classic mystery, rereading a favorite mystery. Stop and think about all the people who worked on the cover, the publishing, the editors, reviewers, authors who wrote day or night and sometimes day and night so that you might have some entertainment, a sense of justice, you as the reader make all of this happen when you buy a new book by an author.
Readers have great power..........and authors love readers, and reading groups, these people are the backbone of their profession.
Malice brings everyone together and those of us who do not attend we still feel the electric charge of creativity in the air.....we know a wide group of mystery lovers are gathered and we are kindered spirit.
When I think of Malice here are some books that come to mind because they stir the pot of my imagination.
THE GHOST AND MRS. MCCLURE
DEATH ON DEMAND
HOCUS CROAKUS
I'LL BE THERE
A LITTLE CLASS ON MURDER
BELL,COOK AND CANDLE
MURDER MAKES WAVES
TO THE NINES
TROUBLE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN
DYING TO MEET YOU
NEMESIS
A FAREWELL TO LEGS
THE HEARSE YOU CAME IN ON
IF LOOKS COULD KILL
MURDER SHE WROTE
FRIEND OR FAUX
RED HOT MURDERS
MURDER AMONG FRIENDS
PERMED TO DEATH
POISONED PINS
MURDER SHE MEOWED
So I salute all readers and authors this weekend as one couldn't survive without the other.
I also remember late great authors of mystery
Edgar Allen Poe
Anne George
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
Dame Agatha Christie
Raymond Chandler
Mickey Spillane
Carolyn Keene
There are too many to list but they are all here in spirit. At their manuel typewriters, at a dig in Egypt, On a train somewhere, sitting on their country estate with notebooks, writing in at a diner in the middle of nowhere, sitting in their office and creating a world outside the confines of the office walls....Maybe Nero created a new Orchid today in honor of Malice, Maybe Poirot was a Malice guest and had to put his little gray cells to use. Can't you just see Miss Marple sitting there knitting as she mentally solves the crimes, Mike Hammer hitting the gritty streets of New York, or what about other mystery creators...Alfred Hitchcock on a train conversing with a stranger, The Thin Man saying "Don' drink that it might be your last drink if you do"
I can hear Rod Sterlings Voice from the Twlight Zone now....Picture if you will....
Topper the Man who is haunted by a woman who tries to help.....we all know where that leads...LOL
Then there are our furry friends.....Carole Nelson Douglas's MIDNIGHT LOUIE.....who loves his owners legs.....KoKo and Yum Yum are cats that are smarter than some people I know.....
The Canterville Ghost knows all about family ties especially the kind that shackle
Then there is atmosphere for Malice, you know haunted houses.....and maddness WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? THE HAUNTING, The GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN, DEATH ON DEMAND BOOKSTORE, ROPE, REAR WINDOW, THE BIRDS, then there is the locked room or house mystery...HAUNTED HONEYMOON, TEN LITTLE INDIANS....CLUE.....SPOOFS ARE GREAT.....and so are fun fun mysteries WHOSE KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE, MURDER MOST FOUL, MURDER AT THE PTA LUNCHEON, ARSNIC AND OLD LACE....
It's hard to believe but all the authors, started out with a blank sheet of paper, a pen and an idea...some may have starred at a computer screen but they are started off equal....as in blank paper, an idea, sitting down and making a world for us to enjoy, creating memorbale characters, adventures and we love them all we honor each and everyone and each and every one of their creations. We need to stand up and applause these creators of mystery because they are truly artist not matter what medium they chose for themselves.....
Today I wish I were Elaine Viets, Nancy Cohen, Barbara Colley, Terri Parsons, Katherine Hall Page, for each of these ladies have my heart my friendship and my admiration.
Hugs, Pamela