It’s not too late to nominate yourself to be a Partners-in-Crime officer for 2008, elections to be held at our November 14 meeting. Email current president Juliet Kincaid at jkincaid4@kc.rr.com between now and then and she’ll put your name on the slate. Our slate is currently as follows:
President:
Program Director(s):
Treasurer: Lisa Harkrader
Newsletter Editor: Juliet Kincaid
Secretary (minutes): [...]
7 p.m.
Wednesday
November 14, 2007
Speaker: Dr. Robert Unger
The speaker for our November meeting will be author and professor Robert Unger, who will speak to us about that most notorious of Kansas City events: The Union Station Massacre. Dr. Unger is a former prize-winning national correspondent for the Kansas City Star and investigative reporter and columnist for [...]
On Wednesday, October 10, Lawrence and Suella Walsh spoke at our monthly Partners in Crime meeting. They gave tips on how to keep tension high in a mystery. They said, “Tension is best created by letting the reader know something is going to happen, then delaying it.” The reader then keeps reading, wanting to know [...]
Highlights by Juliet Kincaid
The fourth Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave, September 28 through September 30, 2007, in the “little apple” of Manhattan, Kansas, offered panels and opportunities for mystery writers and readers.
For instance, the first panel on Saturday resembled a typical Partners in Crime on a law enforcement topic, only times five. A police detective started [...]
