Tag: RAF

• Best-selling author of all time!

  Any guesses as to who is the most read author in the world? Well, according to a recent Wikipaedia article, it is Agatha Christie – who has estimated sales of between two and four billion!  Even beating the bard, William Shakespeare! Hercule Poirot appeared in 33 of her published ‘whodunits’ – which numbered 85 in…

  Isabella Muir

  September 2, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, family life, fiction, Italy, RAF, Second World War, social history, suspense, swinging sixties

• The Queen of Crime!

  

  On the 15th September 1890 Agatha Christie was born.  She started writing novels  in her early twenties and a hundred years later her books are still being read by millions! Among those readers is Janie Juke, young librarian and amateur sleuth, whose hero is Hercule Poirot.  Janie has made a name for herself in the…

  Isabella Muir

  September 1, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  fiction, Italy, RAF, reading, Second World War, suspense, swinging sixties

• Flying high

  It seems incredible to think that our Royal Air Force is one hundred years old.   It was back in 1918, on 1 April, when the Royal Air Force first formed as a separate service, independent of the British Army and the Royal Navy.  In fact, it was the first time that any country had…

  Isabella Muir

  July 10, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, research, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, fiction, inspiration, RAF, Second World War, suspense

• Spending time with friends

  I first met Janie Juke in February 2017.  I was walking my Scottie dog, Hamish, along a Spanish beach and she came into my head.  But back then I didn’t know her name, I didn’t know that she would be a mobile librarian and I hadn’t met any of her family and friends. Since then…

  Isabella Muir

  January 6, 2018

  Janie Juke, mysteries, research, writing

  cozy mysteries, fiction, RAF, Second World War, suspense, swinging sixties