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Bill Peschel

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Bill Peschel is a former journalist who shares a Pulitzer Prize with the staff of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. The author of Writers Gone Wild (Penguin), he publishes through Peschel Press the 223B Casebook Series of Sherlockian parodies and pastiches; a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories featuring Mark Twain; reprints of Victorian true crime books; and annotated editions of mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. He also is a mystery fan who runs the online Wimsey Annotations. Peschel lives with his family in Hershey, where the air really does smell like chocolate.

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Bill Peschel (Amended: 11/21) For some reason, I thought you were asking about TwainLock stories alone. I'm about to publish a quote book in the Career Indie Autho…more(Amended: 11/21) For some reason, I thought you were asking about TwainLock stories alone. I'm about to publish a quote book in the Career Indie Author series, a collection of Sherlockian parodies by James Thurber, and on Jan. 1 (at least, that's the intention), the next Agatha Christie book ("Secret of Chimneys"). (less)
Bill Peschel Absolutely. Feel free to email me at peschel -at- peschelpress.com and we can talk about it.
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Thursday LiveStream: “Murder at the Vicarage” (1986)

It only took 22 episodes, but we’re finally letting you know what we’re up to! This is “Agatha Christie, They Watched.” After the end of our podcast “Agatha Christie, She Watched,” we decided to carry on, but with two major differences: 1. We’ll do a video version, so you can see us discuss and argue […]

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