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Anyplace I Hang My Hat by Evelyn David

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Anyplace I Hang My Hat By Evelyn David Julia Spencer-Fleming, the award-winning mystery author of the Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne series, said, "Ultimately what's important about the books I write and the books I read are that they create a recognizable, believable world with characters I want to spend time with." We've found that choosing the right locale, be it fictional or real, is the first step to creating the wonderful world of murder and mayhem. For us, the collective Evelyn David, sometimes the setting is a real place, like Washington, D.C., where MURDER OFF THE BOOKS and MURDER TAKES THE CAKE unfold. While we take some liberties, for example, creating the college where not one, but two murders take place, we also squarely place the action in the reality of our nation's Capitol. It's no surprise, for example, that one character bemoans driving in the city, especially Dupont Circle, "the physical embodiment of one of Dante's c...