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All writers have experienced feelings of isolation and intimidation when they are faced with a blank page. For over 20 years, three women discovered that engaging together in the writing process - rather than working in solitude - rewarded them with a gratifying friendship and a growing anthology of work. This delightful collection is proof that writing need not be a lonely endeavor.

Sisters Goose and Penny think they've retired to a small slice of heaven on acreage with everything from peacocks to guinea fowl, ducks to geese, ravens to quail. Their days are filled with your typical squawking and yelping coming from all corners, until the murder of a cockatiel leads them to wonder if they've let in a fox amongst their kindly chickens.

Fifteen years before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, Anna Katharine Green began writing The Leavenworth Case, inspiring the creation of detectives like Sherlock, Poirot, and Wimsey, as well as almost every device and convention we now recognize as standard in detective mystery fiction.