Once when I was at a Mystery Writers of America gathering, I was talking to a lady who asked me, “What do you write?”
Before I could answer, my longtime friend, writer, and Sherlock Holmes expert Leslie Klinger leaned across the table we were sitting at and replied, “Anything she damn well pleases.”
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