![]() ![]() Grossinger moved East when her mother, the widow of a family member, became sort of the social director at the Catskills' hotel resort in 1945, when the author was eight. ![]() Non fiction is Growing Up at Grossinger's by Tania Grossinger (a book I was unaware of until getting an offer for a cheap ebook copy, whereupon I discovered it was available from the library). Rawson was also managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine for many years. If you like magicians, locked room mysteries, and impossible crimes, you should check out Clayton Rawson's The Great Merlini, the complete collection of his short stories (he wrote four Merlini novels as well, starting with Death From a Top Hat). I've enjoyed most of Harris's books and this is no exception, so far. After the assassination of President Elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 (the actual attempt was, of course, unsuccessful), the country falls apart and is divided into several parts, including the Texhoma where Lizbeth (Gunnie Rose) lives. Current reading: the first in Charlaine Harris's Gunnie Rose series, An Easy Death. ![]()
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