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    The Sculling Boat: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
    The Sculling Boat: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
    The Sculling Boat: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
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    The Sculling Boat: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery

    By Richard Behrens

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    Introducing Miss Lizzie Borden of Fall River, Massachusetts, a most excellent girl detective and the most remarkable young woman ever to take on the criminal underworld. Many years before her infamous arrest and trial for the murders of her father and stepmother, Lizzie Borden pursued a career as a private consulting detective as chronicled in this clever and imaginative series of short stories. The Sculling Boat tells the story of the very first mystery solved by Lizzie Borden, the Girl Detective of Fall River. When her sister Emma causes an entire boat to vanish, she believes herself to be possessed and goes to her seven year-old sister for advice. The Sculling Boat is the fifth mystery in the Lizzie Borden Girl Detective Mini-Mystery series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Behrens
    Release dateFeb 11, 2015
    ISBN9781311159953
    The Sculling Boat: A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery
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    Richard Behrens

    Richard Behrens is the co-founder of Nine Muses Books and author of the Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective series of mysteries. He is a contributor to The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian Studies as well as The Literary Hatchet, both available from PearTree Press. He is a regular lecturer on eccentric Victorian women and silent film comedy and often gets confused about what century he lives in. A native New Yorker, now living in New England, Richard is working on several more Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective mysteries including two novels: The Minuscule Monk (2015) and The Wilmarth Immovables (2016).

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      Nancy Drew meets Lizzie Borden. With loads and loads of self-awareness, tongue firmly in cheek. This was super cute and fun.

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    The Sculling Boat - Richard Behrens

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    The Sculling Boat

    A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective

    Mini-Mystery #5

    Richard Behrens

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    NINE MUSES BOOKS

    Copyright © 2015

    Smashwords Edition

    Published by Nine Muses Books at Smashwords

    Copyright © 2015 Richard Behrens

    All Rights Reserved

    A Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mini-Mystery #5

    www.lizziebordengirldetective.com

    www.ninemusesbooks.com

    Cover illustration: Lizzie Cameo by Marc Reed

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    This story first appeared in The Hatchet.

    Reprinted by permission of PearTree Press

    Nine Muses Books

    New England, USA

    Fall River, MA. July 1868. Ferry Street.

    1. Sir Andrew and Crooked Jefferson

    The small patch of floor behind the sofa arm was always where Little Lizzie played her imaginary games. In that corner of the sitting room she imagined herself either an explorer pitching a tent on

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