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The Stories Behind The Story

Anna Sayburn Lane

The true-life stories behind my 1920s murder mystery novels

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Lords and Ladies

I have an admission to make: I’ve been avoiding the aristocracy. If you wondered why my 1920s detective duo consist of a wealthy American lady and a lower-middle-class draper’s daughter, rather than the daughter of a duke and her posh frien...

7 days ago
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News and views: July

It’s been full steam ahead this month, after changing track to start work on a new book. The spy thriller is on hold while I work on the next in my Marjorie Swallow 1920s mystery series. I’d long wanted to write a Christmas mystery for the...

14 days ago
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Researching the dark side: travel, ancient libraries and the serendipity of the stacks

I’m thrilled that my guest today agreed to be interviewed about her research. J.F. Penn is the Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers, dark fantasy, crime, horror, short stories, and travel memoir. Jo li...

20 days ago
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All aboard the Flying Scotsman for cocktails, movies and dinner!

I had a plot (family secrets), a setting (a castle in Northumberland) and all I needed was to transport my sleuth there from her usual setting of Bloomsbury in London. I began with a search query: how would I get from London to Newcastle in...

a month ago
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How I research and write my 1920s whodunnits

It started with an email. Did I want to appear at the Walmer Castle Book Fair, and if so would I do a talk? Of course I would. Weeks went by. Friends told me they’d booked to come along. Hmm. Better write that talk.

On the drawbridge at Wa...

a month ago
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    Author of thrillers and murder mysteries. Loves historical research.

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