She’s been dead since 1945, and she still has opinions about the wallpaper. I get asked a lot whether Bitterport is a scary place. It isn’t. Not in the way people mean when they ask. But it is haunted, and if you’re going to meet one resident of Millmerran House before any other, it shouldContinue reading “Character Spotlight: Elvira Brown”
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Notes from Mr Bones
This Week in Bitterport Right. Where to start? It’s been an enormous week, by Bitterport standards — which, to be fair, is a low bar, but still. Millmerran House The wallpaper situation has, as predicted, escalated. Elvira’s not happy. But she’s been unhappy for eighty years, so really who am I to comment on herContinue reading “Notes from Mr Bones”
Letters from Bitterport
The First Bequests – Bitterport Mysteries My Dear George, I owe you an apology for my last letter, which I am told arrived in something of a state. I maintain that the dampness was already present when I sealed the envelope, and is entirely the fault of the Tasmanian weather rather than any carelessness onContinue reading “Letters from Bitterport”
The Lawyer with the Interesting Briefcase
There is a man in Hobart named George Denakis. He is in his mid-seventies. He has been practising property law in Tasmania for most of his adult life. He wears a newsboy cap and is weathered. He is not, at first glance, a remarkable man. At second glance, he is one of the most interestingContinue reading “The Lawyer with the Interesting Briefcase”
Every Good Mystery Needs a Villain
This One Has Been Dead for Eighty Years. Arthur Carruthers was born in 1890 to one of Bitterport’s most prominent families. His father Percy was the local magistrate, a man of law and order, who had watched his wife die in childbirth. Arthur grew up in the shadow of that punishing grief. He watched hisContinue reading “Every Good Mystery Needs a Villain”
Raven Corbin 