Something special happens every time I spend a few minutes sitting in Fred Leyland's dining room.
Frederick
R. Leyland was a wealthy British gentleman, an owner of ships in an era
when ships were the only means of global travel and commerce. Which is
to say that Frederick Leyland had money and knew how to use it. Among
other things, Leyland was the patron of the painter James McNeil
Whistler. He wanted the dining room of his London home to be a suitable
setting to display his collecti...
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Folks tell me that my blog address is cumbersome, that it's hard to spell and even harder to remember. They may very well be right. Although it's derived from the title of my first mystery, even I can recognize that it's not a user-friendly address. So this page will contain selected entries from that blog. Each entry will include a link back to the original post. Use the link to read comments about the post and to add your own.
