Mysteries in Halifax, Nova Scotia?
miss...@cheerful.com
come across any mysteries set in Halifax. Do they exist?
It probably sounds weird but I like to read mysteries set in places
I'm visiting. Just before my trip to Boston in August, I read a whole
slew of Robert Parkers and also a couple from the Beacon Street series
(gads, forgot the author's name!).
Thanks!
MsJuniper
As a previous Haligonian, I can point out a couple of things that would
inspire a writer:
1. the REAL mysteries are fascinating:
-how DID the Chief of Police end up hung in the jail cell ?
-whatever DID happen to John Grant ? how does someone stab THEMSELF 13
times... come ON...
-Halifax Explosion (no real mystery, they went "BOOM!" but a hell of a
story)
-Oak Island
2. The food is amazing: you want fish? Mary cooks the BEST fish in town @
McKelvie's.
3. While you're there, check out the bands at the Lower Deck & the Triangle.
4. Don't look like a freak: order "Keith's" (AK's India Pale Ale)
5. Check out the fascinating pirate/privateering or any of the "oh so quiet"
history of the black community, from:
- press-gangs,
- Black Empire Loyalists from Georgia & Louisiana,
- to "Afric-ville".
oh yeah, and before you go, learn the lyrics of "Barrett's Privateers"
MsJuniper
If you happen to be wandering in 2 different Provincial Parks see the same
swarthy, bushy Acadian guy... don't lose sleep over it. They're twins & get
a blast out of 'stringing out' the tourists. They're perpetual industry
guys. One year, the Tourism Association thought it was SOOO funny, they put
one of them on the cover as "Samuel de Champlain"... provided hours of
amusement in the pubs.
oh yeah, and beleagered tourism workers LOVE telling people that the big
thing in the middle of the harbour is 'condominiums'. They're oil rigs
waiting to be towed to sea. Do not get sucked into riding the ferry to get
there.
If they say that, be kind to them - evidence would suggest they had a really
bad day.
claguire
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>I'm planning a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia in October. I have never
>come across any mysteries set in Halifax. Do they exist?
It's been a while since I read them, so I'm not sure, but don't the
"Grub-And-Stakers" books by Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) take place in Nova
Scotia? Most of her Alisa Craig books took place in Canada, but I can't
remember which ones went where. (There was that stand-alone Woman-in-Jep
mystery by her "The Terrible Tide" which also took place in eastern Canada, I
think.)
Camille
Catherine Thompson
miss...@cheerful.com wrote:
*Lunenburg* by Keith Baker is partly set in Halifax. It's pretty good,
too, for something written by a non-Maritimer (he's a Brit).
Catherine, biased New Brunswicker
Grant Dixon
"Catherine Thompson" <cat...@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> *Lunenburg* by Keith Baker is partly set in Halifax. It's pretty good,
> too, for something written by a non-Maritimer (he's a Brit).
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> Catherine, biased New Brunswicker
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My sister-in-law lives in Lunenburg and she is a mystery.
Grant - the devil made me say that. Honest she really is a nice lady.
JLS411
In article <%7T69.5310$DO6.1...@news20.bellglobal.com>, "MsJuniper"
<msju...@hotmail.com> wrote:
<< oh yeah, and before you go, learn the lyrics of "Barrett's Privateers" >>
No, DON'T. You'll never get it out of your head again.
Jenni - trust me on this
Jenni :-)
Jack: I'm not the only one watching you any more; it seems Internal Affairs
has taken an interest.
Anna: I'll be sure to wear lip gloss.
-- "All My Children"
WareWolf
<miss...@cheerful.com> wrote in message news:3d5bfe36.72934468@nntp...
> It probably sounds weird but I like to read mysteries set in places I'm
visiting...
Nope, not a bit. I'm willing to bet a lot of other RAMMer's agree. Of
course, we're not what you'd call normal.
dusty
Grant Dixon
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> In article <%7T69.5310$DO6.1...@news20.bellglobal.com>, "MsJuniper"
> <msju...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> << oh yeah, and before you go, learn the lyrics of "Barrett's Privateers" >>
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> No, DON'T. You'll never get it out of your head again.
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> Jenni - trust me on this
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> Jenni :-)
"God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers."
Grant - who at this exact moment has a t-shirt on that says "One of Barrett's Privateers"
Kat Richardson
Stop, stop! Or I may break into spontaneous Flowers of Bermuda, or possibly
a fit of Mary Ellen Carter!
--
Kat Richardson
Boat-Bum
http://www.eskimo.com/~strange
Bev Vincent
> come across any mysteries set in Halifax. Do they exist?
I've never encountered one set there, but happen to be writing one based
there at present. Doubtful that'll do you any good, though. I also have a
horror novella set in an old second hand bookstore on Queen Street that I
used to haunt during my eight years in Halifax.
I think Peggy's Cove would be a great setting for a murder, too.
--
Bev Vincent
www.BevVincent.com
Karen Meek
> come across any mysteries set in Halifax. Do they exist?
>
of print:
Alix John (Alice Jones) - "The Night Hawk - a Romance of the 60's"
(NY: Stokes; 1901) - blockade runners and Confederate agents in
Halifax during the American Civil War.
W(illiam) E(dward) D(aniel) Ross - "Wind Over the Citadel" (NY:
Lenox; 1971) - no description given.
(James) "Jim" (Robert) Lotz - "The Sixth of December" (Markham,
Ontario: Paperjacks; 1981) - a plot involving Leon Trotsky and German
POW's interned in Canada and the (real life) collision and explosion
of two ships in Halifax harbour on Dec 5, 1917.
Best wishes
Karen
Karen Meek
Also set in Nova Scotia
Lynn M Turner - Last Resort (A Gottingen Witch Mystery)
Book Description
When Keely Dunwich set up her law practice in a Nova Scotian fishing
village, she certainly didn't expect to be accused of witchcraft. True, she
did inherit a fat old cat and a house crammed with witch paraphernalia, but
she knew precious little about the religion of the witch; Wicca. Jay
Holland, on the other hand, grew up in Gottingen, a place where folks were
proud of their real witch and disappointed that Keely didn't intend to pick
up where her grandmother left off.
Keely's first case pits her against a powerful foreign conglomerate
vigorously acquiring the Nova Scotian coastline. A grisly murder, a crystal
ball that only glows for her, and an attraction to a man who may be a
murderer, add up to an explosive welcome that nearly ends her career . . .
and her life.
(from amazon.com)
Best wishes
Karen
Mark Alan Miller
"claguire" <cam...@sff.netNOSPAM> wrote in message
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I believe those were all set in New Brunswick, though there may have been an
excursion to Nova Scotia in one of them. I don't recall.
Mark Alan Miller
Joyce Poon
> It's been a while since I read them, so I'm not sure, but don't the
> "Grub-And-Stakers" books by Alisa Craig (Charlotte MacLeod) take place in Nova
> Scotia?
I think "Grub-And-Stakers" take place in northern Ontario. The Madoc
and Janet Rhys books take place mostly in New Brunswick. I wouldn't
really say they gave a feel for the place though, if that's why you
want to read them.
Joyce
MsJuniper
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> Lynn M Turner - Last Resort (A Gottingen Witch Mystery)
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> Book Description
> When Keely Dunwich set up her law practice in a Nova Scotian fishing
> village, she certainly didn't expect to be accused of witchcraft. True,
she
> did inherit a fat old cat and a house crammed with witch paraphernalia,
but
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Don't anybody laugh:
There used to be a LOT of talk about witches in NS. In the 80s I knew an
old NS family who were *convinced* that there were Satanic Wicca Covens
nestled around Wolfville's Acadia University because of the Baptist College.
Some theory to do with 'balancing of cosmic energies'... I dunno. I do know
that people routinely told HS kids to stay out of the woods after dar
because of the supposed 'witch sacrifices' (like that stopped us!)
I had a JR High Biology teacher who bought a NS cottage from "some
Americans". He came to our class the next Monday with a human skull covered
in wax. He said he & the Home Ec. teacher went into the cellar & found it
in a pentogram. Apparently, RCMP forensics tore the place apart. Although
we saw the skull, I never heard what came of that, though. RCMP confiscated
it.
Little Known Fact: Shirley McLean's mother was the Dean of Women @ Acadia
University.
MsJuniper
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> "God damn them all!
> I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
> We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
> Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
> The last of Barrett's Privateers."
>
> Grant - who at this exact moment has a t-shirt on that says "One of
Barrett's Privateers"
oohhhh, where DOES one get that shirt !?!
If not even for myself (want!!), I wouldn't mind taunting a friend who lived
out there while his wife was @ Dalhousie Law...
While he *claims* to keep drinking Keiths' as cure from chorus-induced brain
damage, I notice he *still* knows how to give the Chieftain's toast. If
she'd done her Master's, SunSystem Boy may have ended up caber-tossing.
hum.... Christmas is coming...
Grant Dixon
"MsJuniper" <msju...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Well I get one just around the corner and up the road a piece. But then I do live in
Dundas the home town of Stan Rogers. Here is a link and photo of the t-shirt the writing
is on the sleeve in large black letters with some gold pips at the bottom. My wife is 135
and medium fits her at 155 lb large is very nice for me. I am told the XXL will house all
the Rammers at once. By the way I can't fault you friend for his taste in beer it is a
very nice summer one.
http://stevebriggs.superb.net/stanrogers/fcm.html
Grant - who is now in my faded RAM t-shirt
Mary Lou White
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Kat Richardson wrote:
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> Stop, stop! Or I may break into spontaneous Flowers of Bermuda, or possibly
> a fit of Mary Ellen Carter!
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Just don't do Edmund Fitzgerald, it makes me teary.
Mary Lou
Smithsphinx1
>course, we're not what you'd call normal.
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Speak for yourself! I am perfectly norm--NO NO give me back my crayon-AHHH not
the shirt with long sleeves!!
Alice
JLS411
In article <cm_69.26408$Bj.20...@read2.cgocable.net>, "Grant Dixon"
<grant...@cogeco.ca> wrote:
<< > << oh yeah, and before you go, learn the lyrics of "Barrett's Privateers"
>>
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> No, DON'T. You'll never get it out of your head again.
>
> Jenni - trust me on this
>
> Jenni :-)
"God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers." >>
Yup. Those would be the words.
Jenni, very calmly off to gouge out her eardrums
Beth Tindall
"Smithsphinx1" <smiths...@aol.com> wrote
> Speak for yourself! I am perfectly norm--NO NO give me back my crayon-AHHH
not
> the shirt with long sleeves!!
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> Alice
c'mere Alice and show me how you love yourself.....give yourself a nice
hug.....there's'a'girl.... that white shirt looks really good on you, let me
zip it up for you.
Right, now, off you go.
Beth (taking the crayons too)
George
the shape of a ladies head in a window in St. Paul's church on Argyle
St. The head originally flew through the window during the Halifax
Explosion in 1917, to this date the profile of the ladies head remains
and can be seen. This, despite several changes in glass.
There is said to be a child's ghost roaming the rooms in Veith House
on Veith St (north end).
There is also a story I've heard about a mysterious black window in a
house (I think south end of Robie St), again, it is suppose to remain
back although the glass has been changed.