Month: November 2012
Friday Cocktail
This Friday, try a colorful cocktail, the Blue Martini! I first heard of this cocktail around 1998—give or take a year—when it was mentioned on the late daytime soap opera, Guiding Light. If memory serves correctly, it was a then “new and trendy” drink that was gin-based and had just two ingredients, gin and blue… Read More ›
Friday Cocktail: Forbidden Fruitini
This Friday try something taboo, a Forbidden Fruitini. Often times, when dining out, we try drinks off a specialty menu and say, “Wow, wouldn’t this be great to make at home!” Or something to that effect. If said menu provides a list of ingredients, it becomes that much easier for our attempts to recreate it. I’ve encountered… Read More ›
Miss Marple: a Life and Times
Another entry from the file of “Things Kept!” Here’s another college term paper of interest to mystery readers. This one was for an introductory course, Anthropology 101. You know, one of those courses where you attend the large lecture hall with the ant-like professor lecturing at the front of the auditorium and then further discussion… Read More ›
Friday Cocktails
This week’s Friday Cocktail presents a pairing of classic drinks, Scotch and Soda and Rum and Coke. Both have been around for a long time and are a staple of any bartender’s catalog of known drinks. They’re often among those standby drinks, like martinis, manhattans, and margaritas, that cocktail connoisseurs will order when nothing else… Read More ›
The Poisoned Martini VII
It’s long past time for Part VII of The Poisoned Martini, an original eStory written by yours truly. To protect his grandson, Thaddeus Alcott will investigate a murder… Recent college grad Rick Gray met an intriguing and pretty co-ed who invited him to a party at her sorority. The next morning, Rick woke up and discovered a young co-ed… Read More ›
Was it a Killer Year?
In 2009, for the first time, I reviewed a book, Killer Year: Stories to Die For… and posted it publicly in the blogosphere. This “review” became my second post on Crimespace. I’d discovered this social network “ning” site as a place for readers and writers of crime fiction and thought it a perfect place to have a… Read More ›
Celebrating Two Years
Pop the cork and pour the champagne, it’s The Poisoned Martini‘s birthday! I can hardly believe it’s only been two years! The site has really grown in that short time. Thank you to everyone who’s stopped by for a visit or two or a longer stay to see what develops. I especially want to thank all… Read More ›
A New Page
Check out the new page on The Poisoned Martini! For a long time, I’ve been meaning to add a page about Syracuse, NY, my hometown and the setting for much of my writing. The page will complement the local links I’ve previously included at the bottom of the page. This new feature is meant to give… Read More ›
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
C’est incroyable! In this classic locked room murder mystery, “The solution of the problem baffled everybody who tried to find it.” Indeed, it is an excellent example of this mystery troupe. Surely, there must be a secret passage, some means by which the would-be killer escapes, but no, it is explicitly stated that there is… Read More ›
An Unrealistic Genre
Unearthed from my archives of things kept, I present a college midterm paper of interest to kick of Blog Week V. For those who wonder what shapes a writer’s ideas and craft, the answers lie in our experiences past and present. Those books, movies, and plays we’ve seen or read and the environment in which we… Read More ›
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