I don't know of any real life mysteries, unless you count the
collapse of the Boston Red Sox this baseball season, but that's another story.
I've always been intrigued by mysteries, even as a child.
The house we moved into when I was six had been in the same
family since the 1700's when it had been built by a sea captain for himself and
his daughter. The year was 1960. I remember for the first few years we were
always finding things left by that family. Small things, mostly tins labeled
with food and other necessities of life in a long gone era, some silverware, things
like that. As I looked at these things I found myself wondering, who had held
them, what they did with them and why were they left there.
A few years later
we discovered that the top floor held a passage way between the two
houses. My mother had gone downtown to
City Hall and found a copy of the original house plans. I was excited; maybe
there would be a dead body there?
Unfortunately we never found out. Since the houses were side
by side and shared a wall, we couldn't break the wall down unless the
neighboring family agreed. They wouldn't. I was so disappointed. I would not
find out what was behind the wall.
I guess I really did have a mystery after all.
Many years later, I've written my own mystery The Pink Lady, set in a haunted
home being renovated into a B&B. It's the first in a series of the same
title. So far there are no hidden rooms or passages but you never know. It's available now for download on Amazon. Later this year it will be
available in other formats as well as P.O.D.
