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What Do Tim Myers, Chris Cavender, Casey Mayes, Elizabeth Bright, and Melissa Glazer Have in Common?

So, you may ask, just what DO they have in common?

Tim Myers is the author of three series: the Soapmaking Mystery Series, the Candlemaking Mystery Series, and the Lighthouse Inn Mystery Series.

Elizabeth Bright is the author of the Card-Making Mystery Series.

Melissa Glazer is the author of the Clay & Crime Mystery Series.

Chris Cavender is the author of the Pizza Lover’s Mystery Series.

Casey Mayes is the author of the Math Puzzle Mystery Series. (I have yet to make the Mayes page…)

The above information is very well-known. But, did you know that all three of these authors are one in the same person? While I was vacationing in beautiful Colorado I was sent an e-mail by a trusty, well-informed source (yep, the librarian I spoke about in at least one other blog)  who let me in on the latest disclosure: Melissa Glazer could be added to the pseudonym list for Tim Myers!

So, for all of you Tim Myers fans: You now have more books to enjoy by your favorite author! Actually, the same goes for all of you Elizabeth Bright fans, as well as all of you Melissa Glazer, Chris Cavender, and Casey Mayes fans!

Again, I have to thank Janet (my special source of all types of cozy mystery news) for letting me know that Melissa Glazer could be added to the list of Tim Myers pseudonyms.

***** And now you can add “Jessica Beck” to the list of pseudonyms!

Adaptations of Agatha Christie's Plays…

While I was on vacation last week, I got an interesting request from a site reader:

"I have a book entitled Black Coffee which is an adaptation of something by Agatha Christie by Charles Osborne.  Do you know of any other authors who have adapted her work into books?  I’ve found two more he did and ordered them, but would like to know if there are any more by other authors. 

Thank you."
 
Black Coffee was a play written by Christie which was adapted into a novel by Charles Osborne. To be honest, I didn’t know that even one author had adapted one of her plays. When I looked at Amazon, I found the two other books that Osborne adapted from two other Agatha Christie plays: The Unexpected Guest and Spider’s Web.
 
Does anyone out there in Cozy Mystery cyberspace know of any other authors who have adapted one of Christie’s plays into novels? If you do… We would love to hear from you!

The 2008 Edgar Awards:

I finally got the 2008 Edgar Awards listed. The winners were announced the first week of May. I am sorry that this has taken me so long to post… It feels like I just posted the Agatha Awards! Well, I did… Since these awards are given (roughly) one month apart.

As the names of the awards imply, the Agatha Awards are for books that definitely lean more toward the Cozy Mystery Book genre… the Agatha Christie types of books. However, the Edgars should appeal to even the most devoted cozy readers. I think that if you take a look at the different Edgar Award categories, you will see that there are lots of really great mysteries, written by really terrific mystery authors.

I have tried to highlight all of the nominees and winners who have a page on the Cozy Mystery Site… If you do a comparison between the Agatha Award pages and the Edgar Award pages you will see that most of the Agatha winners and nominees have pages on this site. For example, a quick look at the Agatha Award Best Novel page and the Edgar Award Best Novel page will show you what I mean.

June 2008 Mystery Book New Releases:

The following Mystery Books will be released in June 2008:

Catherine Aird:  Losing Ground  (This will be the 22nd in the Inspector Sloan Mystery Series…)

L. L. Bartlett (aka Lorna Barrett):  Dead in Red  (This will be the 2nd in the Jeff Resnick Mystery Series…)

Claudia Bishop:  The Case of the Ill-Gotten Goat  (This will be the 3rd in the Casebooks of Dr. McKenzie Mystery Series…)

Lawrence Block:  Hit and Run (This will be the 4th in the John Keller Mystery Series…)

Emily Brightwell:  Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump  (This will be the 24th Mrs. Jeffries Victorian Mystery Series…)

Leslie Caine:  Poisoned by Gilt  (This will be the 6th in the Domestic Bliss Mystery Series…)

Natasha Cooper:  Poisoned Mind (This will be the 9th in the Trish Maguire Mystery Series…)

Philip R. Craig:  Vineyard Chill  (This will be the 20th in the Martha’s Vineyard Mystery Series…)

Debora Crombie:  Where Memories Lie (This will be the 12th in the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Mystery Series…)

Clive Cussler (written w/Jack Du Brul):  Plague Ship  (This will be the 5th in the Oregon Files Mystery Series…)

Jeffery Deaver:  The Broken Window  (This will be the 8th in the Lincoln Rhymes Mystery Series…)

Susan Dunlap:  Hungry Ghosts  (This will be the 2nd in the Darcy Lott Mystery Series…)

Janet Evanovich:  Fearless Fourteen  (This will be the 14th in the Stephanie Plum Mystery Series…)

Anthea Fraser:  Next Door to Murder  (This will be the 6th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series…)

Carolyn Haines:  Wishbones  (This will be the 8th in the Sarah Booth Delany Mystery Series…)

Honor Hartman:  The Unkindest Cut   (This will be the 2nd in the Bridge Club Mystery Series…)

Linda O. Johnston:  Double Dog Dare  (This will be the 6th in the Pet-Sitter Mystery Series…)

Rebecca Kent (aka Kate Kingsbury):  High Marks for Murder   (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bellehaven House Mystery Series…)

Laura Levine:  Killing Bridezilla  (This will be the 7th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series…)

Jess Lourey:  August Moon  (This will be the 4th in the Murder by Month Mystery Series…)

Sujata Massey:  Shimura Trouble  (This will be the 10th in the Rei Shimura Mystery Series…)

Sharyn McCrumb:  Once Around the Track  (This will be a Stand Alone… OR ?possibly a new series?…)

Tamar Myers:  Death of a Rug Lord  (This will be the 14th in the Den of Antiquity Mystery Series… actually out during the very end of May…)

Barbara Parker:  The Dark of Day  (This will be a Stand Alone…  OR ?possibly a new series?…)

Robert B. Parker: Resolution   (This will be a Stand Alone… historical fiction…)

James Patterson (written w/Howard Roughan):  Sail  (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Ruth Rendell: Not in the Flesh (This will be the 22nd in the Inspector Wexford Mystery Series…)

Maggie Sefton: Dyer Consequences   (This will be the 5th in the Knitting Mystery Series…)

Patricia Smiley: Cool Cache  (This will be the 4th in the Tucker Sinclair Mystery Series…)

Julia Spencer-Fleming:  I Shall Not Want  (This will be the 6th in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery Series…)

Victoria Thompson: Murder on Bank Street  (This will be the 10th in the Gaslight Mystery Series…)

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