Patricia Sprinkle

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Patricia Sprinkle


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1943

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Aka Patricia Houck Sprinkle.

When I met and married Bob, he looked over our budget and demanded, "Why don’t you write a mystery to pay for all the ones you buy?" I immediately knew I wanted to put a body in a building where I’d once worked. However, being over-endowed with the Protestant ethic, I wrote "important" things first and only wrote the mystery in my spare time, so my first mystery, Murder at Markham (reissued by Silver Dagger in 2001), took thirteen years to complete. It took even longer for me to learn that any writing which gives me pleasure is important, whether fiction or non-fiction.

Since 1988 I have written twenty mysteries, four novels, and five non-fiction books. I am grateful to my readers and editors for letting me do wha
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“You never did master a leer."

- Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree”
Patricia Sprinkle

“Katharine: I can't keep up with you!
Tom: I don't want you to keep up. I love you for yourself.

- Death on the Family Tree”
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