It is my pleasure to welcome Marcia Rosen
to Escape With Dollycas today!
HEARING VOICES OF PAST FAMOUS DETECTIVES…
…THEIR IMPACT AND INFLUENCE ON MYSTERY WRITERS
“the stuff that dreams are made of…”
With that famous line at the end of The Maltese Falcon
The old-fashioned private detective with hardboiled ways has been around since the 1920s. We have loved the sinister and menacing plots, behaviors of beautiful, deadly women, and the sexy gumshoes featured in dozens of films for generations following The Maltese Falcon
There are many reasons for loving these detective stories: We become armchair detectives sharing in the suspense with a bit of vicarious pleasure. Our imagination wants to find the killer before the detective, and we are arrogantly thrilled when we do. And we love the romances we know can only end badly. Perhaps that’s just human nature.
Edgar Allan Poe
Crime is the number one genre people read. Dozens of published authors have created stories hearing the voices of past famous detectives. Television mystery shows such as Perry Mason
I love Dashiell Hammond 
And, of course, there is Agatha Christie
We mystery lovers have also long been thrilled by the darker and deeper writings of Raymond Chandler
Many of us mystery writers have the ambition and desire to create thrilling crime fiction with clever detectives. In cozies, like I write, the amateur sleuth finds the murders have many twists and turns; there are a few foreshadowing comments; and there are several red herrings to distract readers. The amateur sleuth sifts through clues, tossing the useless information out. The hunt is on to find the truth . . . for the reader and for me.
I am very much influenced by the voices of famous mystery writers.
Perhaps you are too!
Thank you, Marcia, for visiting today!
Keep reading to find out about Marcia’s new book.
Murder at the Zoo (Agatha, Raymond, Sherlock, & Me Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Artemesia Publishing, LLC (March 14, 2023)
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 1951122496
ISBN-13 : 978-1951122492
Kindle ASIN : B0BNNYB5X6
She had read nearly every book of every famous mystery writer and had seen movies made from them many times and was often absorbed and obsessed by the stories and the characters. It was not the first time she had shouted to one or more of the voices in her head. Sometimes they seemed so real to her. When she was a young girl, Miranda Scott read dozens of mystery books by authors such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, and she loved characters like Sherlock Holmes. Then she began hearing their voices in her head suggesting what she should and should not do.
After a body is tossed into the lions’ habitat at the zoo where she is the senior veterinarian, Miranda and Detective Bryan Anderson find themselves investigating several murders and dealing with a group of bad guys, while gangster friends of her father are trying to protect her. Plus, Miranda and Bryan alternate between flirting and fighting off romantic feelings.
Murder seems to keep getting in their way!
“Marcia Rosen’s new book is hard to put down! The characters are engaging and you enjoy getting to know them as you read this mystery. I enjoyed discovering the world and people in Murder at the Zoo and can’t wait to read more from this author!”
~Cat Harper
National Steinbeck Center
About Marcia Rosen
Marcia Rosen (aka M. Glenda Rosen), the award-winning author of eleven books including her newest one, An Agatha, Raymond, Sherlock and Me Mystery: Murder at the Zoo
Marcia has frequently been a speaker and/or program moderator at organization meetings and conferences, bookstores, libraries and Zoom Programs. Topics she has taught and presented over the past twenty years include: Encouraging the Writer Within You, Marketing for Authors, Writing Mysteries…Not A Mystery, Writing Your Memoir and recently “Anatomy of Writing A Murder.”
Many articles on these topics have been published on mystery reader blogs and in newsletters and magazines and her newest articles relating include, Location, Location, Location: Murders Have Their Places, Hearing Voices of Past Famous Detectives: Their Impact and Influences and Writing Mysteries at a Zoo: With Caution.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime National and New Mexico (Croak & Dagger), Southwest Writers, New Mexico Book Association, Women Writing the West, Public Safety Writer’s Association, Women’s National Book Association and National Association of Independent Writers and Editors—for which she is also a board member. Visit Marcia at www.MarciaRosen.com
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I love all cozy mystery books! I adore the spunky, inexperienced, flawed-but-loveable main characters and quirky, fun supporting casts. I enjoy the small-town settings. I have fun dissecting the mystery, without having to read any disturbing details of the actual murder. I appreciate that the world-building and the character development is as important to the story as the mystery itself. I can lose myself in these stories and enjoy the trip. And I know that there’s always a happy ending waiting for me.
, my thoughts went back to Decatur, Illinois, and the years I worked as a newspaper ad rep, the mid-1980s. First I took a long distance view, like a bird soaring over the experience, getting the lay of the land. Then I zoomed in for a closer look. I remembered an incident when I made a sales call on the manager of a TSC (Tractor Supply Company) store, a man named Ross. Uninterested in the newspaper where I worked, he literally picked me up and bodily threw me out of the store. Okay, he didn’t toss me but set me down gently outside the front entrance. Once I steadied myself, I meekly walked to my car and climbed inside. But I couldn’t drive off. I’d waited and waited to talk to him. I knew I could do a good job for him. By golly, I needed the revenue and he needed my expertise. Gathering all my dignity and my resolve, I got out of the car and went straight to his office. Walking in, I told him, “I have something to offer, and you need to listen. I’m good at my job, and I can put that to work for you, if you give me a chance.”
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