Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in December 2024, Plus Stats for the Year

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Books Read in December 2024, Plus Stats for the Year:   December was a good reading month and three of my reads were Christmas books. I included some notes on my reading in 2024 at the end of th...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Mom Meets Her Maker: James Yaffe

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Mom Meets Her Maker: James Yaffe:   I read My Mother, the Detective , a collection of the Dave and Mom stories by James Yaffe in 2019. The stories were first published in the...

Beneath the Stains of Time: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete "Mom" Short Stories (1997/2016) by James Yaffe

Beneath the Stains of Time: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete "Mom" Short...: Around this time last year, I reviewed James Yaffe 's second of four novel-length "Mom" mysteries, Mom Meets Her Maker (1990)...

Beneath the Stains of Time: Mom Meets Her Maker (1990) by James Yaffe

Beneath the Stains of Time: Mom Meets Her Maker (1990) by James Yaffe: James Yaffe was an American professor of English and mystery writer who debuted aged 15 with " D.I.C. " in the July, 1943, issue ...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete Mom Short S...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: My Mother, the Detective: The Complete Mom Short S...: I had surgery yesterday; it wasn't very serious and went well. However, my chair in front of my laptop is the only place I can sit comf...