Welcome to my tiny island of civility and literacy. If you've read my novels, you know I can't decide whether politics is a comedy or a soap opera. On good days, it's both. We might as well admit it, and enjoy it.
If you've read Murder Across the Board, or the newly published Murder out of the Ballpark, DO let me know what you liked - or didn't. (You haven't read either? What are you doing with your time on the Metro? Go buy my books now!) As one of those appliance companies said in their ads, "progress is our principal product." I amused myself by taking a few requests from fans of Board when I completed Ballpark, some of which [one suspects] worked better than others. But I remain open to suggestions from my readers. Gracious, there must be someone you think would serve well as the model for the victim in a murder mystery, but be advised, mere personal dislike is insufficient cause. Actually, no personal animus whatever is involved in anything I have written so far. The question is: what might someone's motive be... if, as I said at the beginning, we lived in an Arlington where a great many people were a great deal wickeder than is the case in real life? Where there was a heavy-footed political machine with a relentless agenda and secrets to keep, an opposition full of characters straight out of Saturday Night Live, the local press positively cowering and... hm, let's not go on.
Do come into my parlor! And have a chat.
2 comments:
How about tow truck politics? Our most recent victory is making them tow the line and imposing the stiff sanction of a maximum of $100 to tow your car. Like most issues in Arlington, issues get addressed but never resolved. People sell out, the impetus toward a fair resolution is blunted and things dont change much.
O prescient reader! You have been peeking! There is a tow truck sub-plot in the fermenting sketches of Murder Behind the Scenes and I think you will chortle to see who gets towed. (Speaking of this, have you seen the terribly rude but hilarious and exhaustive page at www.frankstowing.com? Or perhaps you are one of the gentry who have commented there?) As we know, Smitty barely avoided being towed in his last adventure, at the price of being observed by an unexpectedly loose-lipped desk clerk in a way that nearly sealed his fate. Fear of towing is a powerful force in our commmunity.
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