Chapter 5
Detective Inspector Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene of the homicide, protocol is followed even though she is still reeling from her doctor’s appointment.
I kept hearing the doctor’s words sounding over and over in my head. In severe cases, Negli’s can be fatal.
The reader is then following her as she approaches the Mandarin Suite and the final resting place of David and Melanie Brandt. Continue Reading →
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Past by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919). This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 20 – February 27th, 2011.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was “Solitude”, which contains the lines: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone”. Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death. (summary by Wikipedia)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Moth Terror by Benjamin De Casseres (1873-1945). This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 13 – February 27th, 2011.
Benjamin De Casseres was an American journalist and author. He worked for various New York City newspapers writing columns and editorials. He also wrote poetry, fiction, essays, and critical reviews. (wikipedia) This poem taken from The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American Poets, edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. (1869 – 1948)
Chapter 3
This author drops his bombshells early in the game.
Lindsay has a rare condition – Negli’s aplastic anaemia. Which her G.P., Dr. Roy Orenthaler assures his patient, can be fatal if not treated successfully and perhaps this may be the real reason for her behaviour during the prologue. Difficult to say, since I’ve only just met Lindsay.
Dr Roy, is being as honest as possible, without the sugar coating. Continue Reading →
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Oh, No – Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore (1779-1852). This was the Weekly Poetry Valentine’s project for February 13 – February 20th, 2011.
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron’s memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often reffered to as Anacreon Moore. (summary by Wikipedia)
