Up at the Sleuthsayers mystery blog today, I’m sharing the story of a real-life mystery that popped up during World War II.
I first learned about it from an archivist at the National Archives in Atlanta, who told me how researchers there had found a couple of cryptic advertisements that ran in the New Yorker magazine during the war. Back in the 1940s, US Naval Intelligence thought the ads looked suspicious, and flagged them for further investigation.
Interestingly, one of the blog’s readers did some more research, and discovered that at least some parts of the story did check out. You’ll find it all at the Sleuthsayers blog today,
You can check out the post here.
If you like my work, kindly consider bookmarking Sleuthsayers. The next post will be in three weeks, when I’ll be talking about the time, as a kid, when I launched a detective agency in my parents’ garage.
If you’re looking for reading material during your pandemic down-time, I hope you’ll consider one of my books or my wife’s. If ever there was a time for escapism, it’s now!
Check out Denise’s book here: We Gather Together.
The e-book versions of both of my two most recent books, Murder on Book Row and the fantasy novel, Sorceress Kringle, are available at almost every online retailer. You can order print copies at the usual suspects online, or autographed copies from Malaprop’s, the bookstore in my nabe. Yes, this wonderful bookstore is still operating, and shipping books all over the world.
Credit: Bookshelf image at top by 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič on Unsplash
