Category: Detective Fiction
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Motive Crime and Mystery Festival, June 27-29, 2025
Paul Masson
I attended this event on Sunday, June 29. It was a beautiful day, and I had a good time. The highlight for me was a panel discussion entitled Trope and Dagger: Playing (and Breaking) the Rules in Mystery Novels. Panelists were Margaret Cannon, Karen Sullivan, and Gregg Hurwitz. My takeaways included the following: “Come into…
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Latest novel is now available!
Paul Masson
You can now buy Ignorance is a Pleasant Evil in paperback on Amazon. It will be available from Ingram Spark starting March 28. The eBook version will be published shortly. This is the seventh detective novel in the series The ABC Files. It features a new detective, Beth Philips, who is given the task of…
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A New ABC Files Mystery is on its way!
Paul Masson
The new mystery is titled Ignorance is a Pleasant Evil. It is set partly in Nova Scotia, and partly in Alberta, in the Athabasca Oil Sands. As usual, the partners in the Cameron and Carroll detective agency, Hamish and Sean, play starring roles. In addition, a new comer, Beth Phillips (who appeared in a previous volume, Memories of…
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Why Detective Fiction?
Paul Masson
People ask how I got started writing detective fiction. My job as an economist led me to publish a number of scholarly articles and several books. After I retired, I looked for a way to continue writing, which I enjoy, and I decided to try penning mystery novels. Writing fiction posed different challenges from the…
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