Origins of the Crabtree Mystery Series
I was hired by the local newspaper to write personality pieces, and on of my first articles was about the resident sheriff's deputy who happened to be a woman. She was not treated well by the male deputies.
While doing a book appearance I met an Indian woman who happened to grow up on the reservation. We had a great visit.
Then I went on a grave-yard shift ride-along with the only woman on the Porterville Police Department. She happened to be a single mom. We had a great time together and she told me a lot.
These three women were the models for Tempe Crabtree. I borrowed my great-grandmother's name. I thought it fit perfectly.
The Springville Inn was the inspiration for the Bear Creek Inn which I usually called it the Inn. I used the true history of the Inn. The one in the story is not quite like the real one, though similar in many ways.
Tempe's Indian friend Nick Two John is like one of the Indians I saw a lot at different events in town. The garden he created at the Inn is like one another Indain told me about. The garden is important to the plot.
When this book first came out, copies of the book were sold at the Inn--and the owner told me she wished she had the garden that is in the book.
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Marilyn
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