Teabags and butter-fascinating facts from my 1950s set mystery DEATH IN THE COVE

Death in the Cove, an Inspector Ryga mystery by Pauline Rowson

Death in the Cove is set in 1950, when memories of the war are strong, austerity and rationing are still in place, and fears of more world conflicts haunt people. Society and policing in the 1950s was vastly different to today, no mobile phones, no dashing about, no computers, so it was fascinating to research & write.

Newly promoted to detective inspector, Ryga, from Scotland Yard, is on his first solo investigation outside of London, to solve the mystery of why a man in a pin-striped suit is found murdered in an isolated cove on the Island of Portland in Dorset.

Here are two snippets that I had to check on while writing the novel.

Tea bags

I had a character putting a teabag into the teapot and thought, hold on, were they in use in 1950? They were in America but didn’t come in general use or sale over here in the UK until 1953.

Butter

I also had to check on rationing because I couldn’t have someone liberally applying butter to a piece of toast or bread when butter was still on ration!

Butter was on ration in the UK until 1953.

DEATH IN THE COVE is my twentieth crime novel and the first historical mystery I have written, my other nineteen crime novels are all contemporary with fourteen featuring my rugged and flawed detective, DI Andy Horton; three starring former Royal Marine Commando but damaged Art Marvik, an undercover investigator for the UK’s National Intelligence Marine Squad, and two standalone thrillers.

DEATH IN THE COVE is published in paperback, ebook, Amazon Kindle, Kobo.

It is also available as an audio book published by B7 Media and narrated by Jonathan Rhodes.

POSTED BY: PAULINE ROWSON
SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2019 @ 6:33:38 UTC

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RE: Teabags and butter-fascinating facts from my 1950s set mystery DEATH IN THE COVE

Have just finished Death In The Cove. Different from Andy, but a good mystery. I gave it 5 stars with Amazon.
Look forward to the next Alun Ryga......and more of Andy and his interesting relationships. Love them.
God bless
Mal and Robyn Rowson (Australia)
PS.....Whenâs the next release?

COMMENT BY MAL ROWSON, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2019 @ 12:24:41 UTC

RE: Teabags and butter-fascinating facts from my 1950s set mystery DEATH IN THE COVE

Thank you for the lovely feedback Mal. Glad you enjoyed DEATH IN THE COVE. Yes, had to make him different to Andy. I have finished writing the next DI Andy Horton (15) and almost finished the next Inspector Ryga. I am hoping that both will be published in 2020 but not sure when yet. Will keep you posted. Thank you for leaving a review on Amazon AND giving it 5 stars.

COMMENT BY PAULINE ROWSON, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2019 @ 12:38:53 UTC

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