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Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective -- Book and Web Site

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:10 am
by Richard
PearTree Press has published my short stories in a collection called "Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective" We just put up the web site, a blog at

http://www.lizziebordengirldetective.com

This book collects four stories that were previously published in the Hatchet and the Literary Hatchet, including one novella previously unpublished.

I'd like to thank all the LBS Forum folk and Mutton Eaters who helped support these stories over the past few years, giving me encouragement, inspiration and positive feedback.

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Authored by Richard Behrens
Designed by Stefani Koorey
Illustrated by Marc Reed
Associate editor Kat Koorey
Consultant editor Shelley Dziedzic

Introducing Miss Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, a most excellent girl detective and the most remarkable young woman ever to take on the criminal underworld in late 19th century New England.

Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders of her father and stepmother, Lizzie Borden pursued a career as a private consulting detective and wrestled masterfully with a crooked spiritualist, a corrupt and murderous textile tycoon, a secret society of anarchist assassins, rowdy and deadly sporting boys, a crazed and vengeful mutineer, an industrial saboteur, and a dangerously unhinged math professor—none of whom are ever exactly what they seem to be.

In these five early tales of mystery and adventure, Lizzie Borden is joined by her stubborn and stingy father Andrew; her jealous and weak-chinned sister Emma; her trusted companion Homer Thesinger the Boy Inventor; and the melancholy French scion Andre De Camp. Together, they explore Fall River’s dark side through a landscape that is industrial, Victorian, and distinctly American.

You have met Lizzie Borden before! But never like this!

Includes the following stories:

* The Forlorn Maggie
* The Purloined Curio
* The Exhausted Amanuensis
* The Traumatized Metallurgist
* The Melancholy Scion

About the author

Richard Behrens is a contributor to The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies and a founding editor of The Trenton Review. His writings on literature and science fiction have been published in The Journal of Advancing Technology and on TheModernWord.com. A native New Yorker, now living in New England, Richard is working on several more Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective mysteries.

Publication Date:Apr 16 2010
ISBN/EAN13: 0981904319 / 9780981904313
Page Count: 208
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6″ x 9″
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Related Categories: Fiction / Short Stories

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:33 pm
by Richard
Hey guys,

I just found out I'm going to be doing a reading at the Fall River Historical Society on Saturday, June 5th. I know a lot of people are not in a position to travel to Fall River at such short notice, but I wanted to let you all know in case a few people can make it.

I'll be reading excerpts from Lizzie Borden: Girl Detective and signing copies of the book for FRHS.

We'll put out a more formal announcement shortly. You're the first to know!

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:47 pm
by Bob Gutowski
I got it delivered yesterday, Richard! Congratulations!

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:09 pm
by Richard
The reading at the Fall River Historical Society is now on-line. Check out either Mondo Lizzie, my own blog www.lizziebordengirldetective.com or watch it on YouTube in four parts.