Mark Bruce, Writer.
Creator of the Minerva James Mysteries
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A Pearl of a Comic
Seventy Percent of lawyers don’t want to be lawyers. I’m sure I’m underestimating. There’s something about being a lawyer that makes you long to be doing something else. In my experience, that “something” usually is other lawyers. Your humble servant, for instance, has been toiling in the vineyards of the law for lo, these forty…
Waiting for Word
There’s a scene in the movie Elizabeth where we see the young princess standing in a large courtyard where she’s being held captive. A lone horseman gallops toward her and she thinks he’s coming to tell her that she’s going to be sent to the Tower of London. Instead, he jumps off his horse and…
Stumbling Onto a Solution
Okay, it’s not easy to write mysteries. You have to have a compelling lead character. You have to set the scene. You have to plant clues all over the place. And you have to have a satisfying solution. This seems to be a problem. I recall once reading a mystery by a very famous author,…
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