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SCOTT ELLIOTT GETS MARRIED
My Hollywood private eye, Scott Elliott, has a new title, his first novella, In a Teapot. It was released in September by the Mystery Company, an imprint of the Crum Creek Press, the publisher who brought out the paperback edition of Elliott's first case, Kill Me Again. Teapot is a 23,000 word mystery, in hardcover, complete with illustrations by Michigan artist Robin Agnew. The story, set in 1948, not long after Kill Me Again, involves an attempt to film Shakespeare's The Tempest, with a cast drawn from Hollywood's famed British colony. The filming is interrupted by a murder, the investigation of which is interrupted in turn by Elliott's wedding to the lovely Ella (Pidgin) Englehart. I think The Mystery Company did a beautiful job on this book, which the Chicago Tribune called "a short, tasty lemon meringue. . . ingredients: wit, humor, and characters just a little larger than life." I'm prejudiced, of course, but I think it would make a great stocking stuffer for any mystery reader. |
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OWEN KEANE RETURNS
The Confessions of Owen Keane, the first Keane book since 1999's Orion Rising, is now available. The Confessions, my first short fiction collection, contains six short stories and a novella, all featuring the failed seminarian turned amateur sleuth who debuted in the Edgar-nominated Deadstick in 1991. (For more on Keane's second brush with the Edgar, see "Nominations and Other News" below.) One of the stories, "On Pilgrimage," was written especially for the collection. The other cases span Keane's entire career to date, from his days in high school to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. I'm very pleased with the job the publisher, Crippen and Landru, did with the book, which is available in both a signed and numbered hardcover edition and a trade paperback edition. Besides the stories, the volume contains an introduction written by me and a complete list of my publications.
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NOMINATIONS AN OTHER NEWS In my last update to this website, I noted that Owen Keane short stories had received several award nominations in 2005. "The Widow of Slane", Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2004, was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Anthony Award, and the Macavity Award. A second Keane tale, "A Sunday in Ordinary Time", published by Ellery Queen in its August 2004 issue, placed sixth in the magazine's annual Reader's Award voting. It was nominated for a Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society and included on mystery critic Marv Lachman's list of the best short stories of 2004. I'm happy to report that "The Widow of Slane" won the Macavity award, which is presented each year by Mystery Readers International.
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....A personal introduction by the writer...
Welcome to my website. My name is Terence Faherty. I'm a storyteller whose writing has been shaped by a lifelong fascination with the mystery. I love mysteries in any setting and any time period, as long as they involve recognizably real people searching for the truth. To me, the most natural form of storytelling is the classic detective story, in which a question is posed and answers are sought, though perhaps not completely found. I write in the first person, again because that seems to me to be the most natural way to tell a story: one speaker addressing an audience of one. And, although I enjoy all types of crime fiction, I write whodunits, books that give the reader a chance to solve the mystery along with the detective. |
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I'm currently writing two series, which are described in more detail elsewhere on this site. I hope you'll take a moment to learn more about both. The Owen Keane stories are a more or less contemporary series of novels detailing the life journey of a failed seminarian who searches out mysteries in the hope of finding answers to the metaphysical questions that still haunt him. Click here to read descriptions of the Keane books. |
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The Scott Elliott books are Hollywood historicals set after World War II, a period during which the glamour of old Hollywood was fading. Elliott, a former actor and soldier turned private security operative, fights a rearguard action throughout the series, trying to protect the dying Hollywood, for which, as he might put it, he carries a torch. Click here for more information about the Elliott books. |
| As this entire website is a work-in-progress, I would love to have your comments on it and on any of my books. To send me an e-mail on my site or my writing or writing in general, click here. |
 
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