Laura asked Lisa Fernow:

Which mystery writers inspire/influence you?

Lisa Fernow Golden age mystery writers are huge influences, like Ngaio Marsh and Agatha Christie, for their craft. I loved reading them growing up, for the way they showed me worlds I could never enter except through my imagination. Marsh loved the theater and did justice to that community, and I am trying to do the same thing for tango. Both were masters of their craft and I studied how they constructed their clues and red herrings - hopefully this shows in my writing as very few people have been able to guess my murderer yet! I also really admired Elizabeth Peters for the way she incorporated humor and the battle of the sexes relationship between Emerson and Peabody. I am bummed that Peters (Mertz) is no longer with us.

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