WEDNESDAY, February 8th at 7PM: THE WINTER OF OUR WODEHOUSE Begins

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.  Among his best known collections are the Jeeves and Wooster, Blandings Castle, and extended to a broad cross section for stories for all ages.

Wodehouse was a great fan of Sherlock Holmes and he was the product of the British public school (USA private school) educational system where one learns the fine arts of "getting away with murder."

Two mystery adventures tonight: "Aunt Agatha Takes the Count" from Wodehouse on Crime; and "Misunderstood" from Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories.

Trolley Trollop, live in voice.

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MONDAY, September 28th at 7pm: A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER Begins!

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“A Night in the Lonesome October” is a semi-satirical, though not comic, novel by Roger Zelazny published in 1993, near the end of his life. It was his last book, and one of his five personal favorites.

The book is divided in 32 chapters, each representing one "night" in the month of October (plus one "introductory" chapter). The story is told in the first-person, akin to journal entries and explores a tale heavily influenced by H. P. Lovecraft. The title is a line from Edgar Allan Poe's "Ulalume" and Zelazny thanks him as well as others – Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Bloch and Albert Payson Terhune – whose most famous characters appear in the book.

A Night in the Lonesome October was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1994. A similar theme of conflict surrounding the opening of a gate to another world exists in Zelazny's novel “Madwand.”

Tonight: Gyro Muggins, Trolley Trollop, Faerie Maven-Pralou, Kayden Oconnell, and Caledonia Skytower, Live in Voice.

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TWO TASTY TREATS on WEDNESDAY!

First, a whole new session and a whole new book shared by two "women of the word" . . .

@6AM ~ CONFESSIONS OF A FAILED SOUTHERN LADY
Trolly Trollop & Freda Frostbite share Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street."


@ 7PM ~ More from CHRISTIE'S DETECTIVES

Caledonia shares more from the venerable Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie tonight - crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright. She is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations a familiar canon of five detective characters of her creation. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.

THIS WEEK: More from Miss Jane Marple - "The Perfect Maid" & "Sanctuary"

All stories live in voice, all times SLT.