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2013 PBS Masterpiece Mystery Schedule

Yikes! I don’t know how this happened, but I didn’t get this post put up in time to tell you about the Inspector Lewis, series VI starting this past Sunday night. If these times aren’t convenient for you, check to see when your local PBS station re-runs the shows.

2013 PBS Masterpiece Mystery line up:

INSPECTOR LEWIS, Series VI (all of the shows are 90 minutes long and are slated to run at 9:00 Eastern time zone)
Yes, Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and his trusty Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox) are back on the job!

June 16, 2013 —– Down Among the Fearful

June 23, 2013 —– The Ramblin’ Boy
Actually, D.S. Hathaway is on vacation…

June 30, 2013 —– Intelligent Design
(Do you see the family likeness between Edward and Lawrence Fox?)

ENDEAVOR, Series I (all of the shows are 90 minutes long and are slated to run at 9:00 Eastern time zone)
Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allum) helps mold Detective Constable Endeavor Morse (Shaun Evans) into the Morse (John Thaw) we all came to love. (Abigail Thaw, John Thaw’s daughter, is a special guest star – playing Dorothea Frazil.)

July 7, 2013 —–  Girl

July 14, 2013 —– Fugue

July 21, 2013 —– Rocket

July 28, 2013 —– Home

August 18, 2013 The Lady Vanishes  (90 minutes long and slated to run at 9:00 Eastern time zone)

SILK  (all of the shows are 2 hours long and are slated to run at 9:00 Eastern time zone)
(I’m not sure what this mystery show is about, however, it looks like it is a court room drama.)

August 25, 2013 —– Silk, Part 1

September 1, 2013 —– Silk, Part 2

September 8, 2013 —– Silk, Part 3 

FOYLE’S WAR, Series VII (all of the shows are 90 minutes long and are slated to run at 9:00 Eastern time zone)
It’s now 1946, and Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) has returned from America, and is ready to take on crime in England! Lucky for us, he will be reuniting with Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks)!

September 15, 2013 —– The Eternity Ring

September 22, 2013 —– The Cage

September 29, 2013 —– Sunflower

Looks like a great PBS Mystery! season – or should I say Masterpiece Mystery?

The Jury’s In… or Should I Say Out?

I’m not sure how I feel about this, but I wasn’t selected to sit on a jury yesterday. It is the second time that I actually got named as a possible, but it’s also the second time that the parties were able to determine a deal before the voir dire process began. On the one hand I’m glad that I won’t have to drive to and from downtown every day during the two rush hours, but I’m sort of sorry I won’t be part of the judicial process.

(Not at all related to being on a jury >>> It was nice coming home and finding that my husband had missed me!)

The Jury’s Out…

I am writing this entry on Tuesday night, but it will post tomorrow morning. Right now I’m trying to get organized >>> I am in the middle of getting ready for jury duty. (This entry will post as I am driving downtown.) I’m in the middle of packing all of the things I might want to have with me while I wait to see if they plan on keeping me for jury duty, or not.

I always take my notebook/organizer with me to places where I know I’m going to have to sit around and wait. I have gotten a lot of my TV and Movies entries written while waiting for doctors. And I specifically remember writing my What Makes a Cozy Just That? definition while sitting in the very same jury duty waiting room several years ago. Unfortunately, more and more waiting rooms have those pesky televisions blaring, which, with my attention deficit disorder makes it a little more difficult for me to work. I now carry ear plugs in my purse to help drown out talk show hosts whooping it up for their audiences.

Since I have done this jury duty sit-and-wait stint several times before, I know I’m going to need more than just my notebook/organizer. I’m (of course!!!) going to take my Kindle – just in case I’m in the mood to read OR play one of the games I have on it. (Mahjong is my favorite.)

I know I have talked about this before, but I am guessing that at least half of the people there will not have anything to do… no reading materials, no Sudoku puzzle books, NADA, NOTHING, ZILCH, ZIP! It never ceases to surprise me how many people seem to just show up, apparently expecting some television talk show host to entertain them OR perhaps just to sit and enjoy the day.

For some reason, I’ve never been selected. I (personally) think I’d be really good at being a juror. I’ll let you all know if I’m selected.

2013 Nero Award Nominees

I just got word that the 2013 Nero Award Nominees have been picked. The Nero Awards are given to authors who write mystery novels similar to the way Rex Stout wrote his Nero Wolfe mystery books – which are definitely classic mysteries.

The Wolfe Pack is a society of literary people who, simply put, love everything about Nero Wolfe (Rex Stout’s main sleuth – although Archie Goodwin might think he’s the main sleuth!) The Wolfe Pack hosts the Black Orchid Banquet each year, during December – on the first Saturday of that month. It is at this time that the winners is announced.

Here are the 2013 Nero Award Nominees:

Barbara Allan: Antiques Disposal

Kieran Shields: The Truth of All Things

Loren D. Estleman: Burning Midnight

Chris Knopf: Dead Anyway

Congratulations to all the 2013 Nero Award Nominees!

If you’d like to take a look at all of the Nero Award Nominees and Winners from past years, here’s the link.

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