Why This Pix--Crime Fiction Related?

[Patricia Harrington]

It's all part of the dream -- a beach bar and book club on a tropical island. Who wouldn't like that! This pix was taken on one of the tiny, uninhabited Five Islands off Antigua in the Caribbean. I wrote on a bed sheet and my Antiguan friend sailed me over , strung it up on some cactus and justting rocks, and then took the picture. Of course, I was doing research for my Golden Age mystery, Murder Visits Antigua, The protagonist is Aunt Amelia, not a close cousin to Miss Marple, and not Amelia Peabody. My Amelia Winthrop is circa 1930s. I'm having fun throwing in tidbits of related history as the post-colonial era of sugar plantations waned in the Eastern Caribbean, but the aftereffects continued long into the 20th century.