Barbara Stanwyck enters, the plot improves. Ball of Fire (1941) is what happens when intelligence flirts with chaos and wins.

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#WritersWhoWatch #CreativeInfluence #BarbaraStanwyck #ClassicCinema #TheWashashore #HistoricalFiction

Snow falls. The woods are still. But back in 1898, the Vineyard faced a storm that swallowed ships and tested every soul on the island. 🌊❄️
Isolation, heroism, and the sea that spares no one.
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#VineyardStorms #TheWashashore #NewEnglandStorms

✨ He never ages. He dazzles, unnerves, and maybe outlives us all.

Meet The Wonderman: Comte de Saint Germain: immortal, mysterious, and impossible to pin down. Dare to uncover his legend?

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Kicking off spooky season with a slow-burn gem: Angel Heart (1987) delivers the kind of dread that sweats off the screen. Underrated and unsettling. #AngelHeart

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#CultCinema #80sMovies #NeoNoir #AtmosphericFiction #OldSchoolCool

By the 1920s, people could bypass the operator and dial directly.

But on Martha’s Vineyard, Thankful Downs (left) still ruled the switchboard.

She knew everyone’s secrets, which made her perfect for The Washashore.
#TheWashashore #CozyMystery #koehlerbooks #MarthasVineyard #islandhistory

Newport, we’re coming your way! Join us at @CharterBooks on Sunday, Sept 14th, 5–6 pm to chat about The Washashore. Flappers, secrets, and 1929 Martha’s Vineyard—what more could you want?
#BookSigning #HistoricalMystery #TheWashashore #charterbooks #koehlerbooks

✨ From rumrunners to truth pins, we had a blast talking all things history, mystery, and The Washashore with The Reader’s House.
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The Washashore is out in the world today! Order yours here: www.theothersideofthefire.com

🎉 You’re invited!
Join us online for the launch of The Washashore, our new 1920s island mystery. An hour of stories, secrets, and celebration—flappers welcome. 🥂

Support Circles of Courageous Commons toasting our book’s arrival.

“The Washashore” just got the bee’s knees of reviews—and from a reader we don’t even know!

Louise Brooks may have said, “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” We’d add: it’s also between the pages.

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Before Gaga, before Bowie—there was Marchesa Luisa Casati, the original haute-goth muse who turned herself into living art and burned through a fortune doing it.

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#LuisaCasati #WomenInHistory #LivingArt #TheWashashore #ArtHistory #MarchesaCasati

Read all about it! Last Noir Review of the year is 1948's Key Largo with Bogie and Bacall:
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