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David Linzee

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David Linzee lives in University City, Missouri. He has written for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Magazine, and the West End Word. He is retired from teaching English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He used to live near New York, where he was a member of Mystery Writers of America, and served on its Board of Directors and on numerous Edgar Award committees.

He is married to Claire Cain Linzee, who runs a landscaping business. He serves on the boards of the Historical Society of University City and U City in Bloom, and also volunteers at the Clowder House cat shelter.

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David Linzee I would go to Anthony Trollope's London, where I would have tea with Lady Glen, talk politics with Planty Pal, and later join Phinny Finn for angst an…moreI would go to Anthony Trollope's London, where I would have tea with Lady Glen, talk politics with Planty Pal, and later join Phinny Finn for angst and whiskey. (less)
David Linzee As a tenant, I served on a community improvement board with some of my neighborhood's biggest landlords. They called a meeting and a vote on selling a…moreAs a tenant, I served on a community improvement board with some of my neighborhood's biggest landlords. They called a meeting and a vote on selling a building the board owned to a major investor. We debated the pros and cons and I voted for the sale....LITTLE DID I KNOW (as they say in mystery novels) that as part of the same transaction, my landlord was selling the building I lived in to the same major investor. Though my landlord was sitting next to me at the meeting, not a word did he breathe to me until the story broke in the newspapers. The result? My rent went up steeply under the new landlord. But a writer makes capital of his worst moments, as Maugham said. This was the only time that I was the victim of an intrigue (and found out about it later) and I made the incident the heart of ONE FELL SWOOP, my latest novel. (less)
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Death in Connecticut

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I'm being asked where the title of my new book "One Fell Swoop" comes from. It's not just a familiar phrase. It's a quote from Shakespeare's "Macbeth." When Macduff is told that Macbeth has murdered his wife and children he cries,

"What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam,
At one fell swoop?"

The image is of a bird of prey flying down upon helpless domestic birds. We now call a hawk's dive a "stoo Read more of this blog post »
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