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Copper Beech Tree I was in the library the other day and checked out  Now That My Father Lies Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 by Stanley Plumly.  The hardcover was published by in 2000 by Ecco Press , an imprint of Harper Collins.  I am always looking for poets and poetry, but I'd never heard of him.  I live in Maryland.  Stanley Plumly is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Maryland and the Poet Laureate of Maryland.  Plumly was at a library a few miles from where I live two months ago.   These are the websites I read to find out about him.   Stanley    Plumly   Anyhow, now I temporarily possess one of his books and have found a few pieces I like and understand. There's a poem titled "Conan Doyle's Copper Beaches" on page 35 of the softcover that was published in 2001.  I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes mysteries and am familiar with  "The Adventure of The Copper Beaches" ...

1990's Devil In A Blue introduces the character Easy Rawlins.  In 1948 Easy or Ezekiel is an African American war veteran, factory worker from Texas who moved to Los Angeles to escape his friend Mouse. Read the book and you'll find out why.  After losing his job and needing money to pay his mortgage, Easy is solicited by a obviously malignant individual to find a white woman name of Daphney Monet.  Of course the initial search opens the door to a full blown mystery of unanswered questions, beat downs, and murder.  The 1995 movie  starred Denzel Washington as Easy, Don Cheadle as Mouse, and Jennifer Beals as Daphney.  Unfortunately there were no movies made after the first one. Mosley wrote ten more books featuring Easy Rawlins as he evolves into a full time detective.  2007's Blond Faith was to be the last book in the Rawlins series, but I hear that's not what's going to happen. I met Walter Mosley briefly when he was at the Baltimore Book ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1852.  Doyle was trained as a medical doctor, but writing was his first love.  He is famous for writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and yet he also wrote science fiction, adventure, horror, and essays. In "The Case of The Man With The Twisted Lip" Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Dr. Watson try to find a woman's missing husband.  The wife unexpectedly sees her husband in a seedy part of London, half dressed in the window of an opium house. When the police investigate all they find of him are his clothes and some blood on a window sill.  After investigating, Holmes is puzzled and frustrated when he has to tell the wife he thinks her husband is dead.  What happens next?  You won't find out unless you read  The Case of The Man With The Twisted Lip By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .  I don't think you will be disappointed.