One of my very favorite mystery series is the Winston Marlowe Sherman series, by MK Lorens. If you haven’t heard of it, it isn’t surprising, since Lorens’ publisher quit publishing that series in 1993. (Please introduce them to me so I can kick them in the kneecaps.) And while BooksInOrder.com used to have them listed, as did OrderofBooks.com, neither have them now. I did find them listed at FictionDB: https://www.fictiondb.com/author/mk-lorens~21466.htm. And you can find them on amazon, and probably other online used books sources, and maybe your local used book store.
Lorens’ main character is Winston Marlowe Sherman, an English professor who writes mystery novels under the pseudonym Henrietta Slocum. I wrote a review on amazon years ago, hoping to stir up some interest in the series. I copied it below:
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M.K. Lorens's Winston Marlowe Sherman is a great, curmudgeonly, college English professor with a colorful extended family and a propensity for getting tangled up in murders. These books could be formulaic, but they're not. They sometimes dip into very dark corners of the human psyche indeed. But the college politics and sometimes spiky interpersonal relationships also provide some humor and zest. I love these books. I've always felt they were way, WAY under-rated. It is a true loss that M.K. Lorens passed away so young. She may not have written any more Sherman books, but she had at least one other series going in a different genre, so we might have enjoyed her talents much longer. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting her and interviewing her once and she was a lovely person. I recommend this series to any cozy mystery lover anywhere.
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Really, that’s all I have to say about them. I recommend them and hope you find and enjoy them!
2 comments:
I will look for these!
I hope you enjoy them! Good luck in your quest.
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