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Here are four fine novels with women in the lead role. One is a fine example of contemporary crime fiction, and one is a double helix narrative set in today’s London and the late 18th century. The third novel deals with dissociative identity disorder, while the fourth is a stirring account of forbidden love and friendship between two women in the 17th century. ‘The Fine Art of Invisible Detection’ by Robert Goddard Recipient of the Diamond Dagger three years ago, an award that recognizes lifetime achievement in Crime Writing by the Crime Writers Association, which Robert Goddard was cer...

FEBRUARY 15 1971 was United Kingdom Decimalisation Day: no longer were there 12 pennies to a shilling, half-crowns or 240 pennies to the pound.  That day, 50 years ago, was also just over halfway through the greatest strike this country had seen since the General Strike of 1926: the 44-day national strike of 200,000 Post Office workers. Telegraphists, telephonists, Post Office counter clerks, cleaners, postmen (170,000 of them!) and PHGs (postmen higher grade), members of the Union of Post Office Workers (UPW), struck for their claim of 15 per cent, or £3 a week for lower-paid grades such a...

CROWN POINT — A judge denied a petition for post-conviction relief Monday for a man serving a 300-year prison sentence for the murders of five people in Gary in 2000 he now says he didn't commit. New evidence introduced during several hearings last year for Cleveland C. Bynum, 42, was not credible and likely could not be reproduced if a new trial were to be granted, Lake Criminal Court Judge Natalie Bokota wrote. Bynum confessed in February 2000 to three of the five homicides and gave a conflicting statement about the remaining two homicides, according to court records. He was convicted ...

Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 07.05 EST Anne Turner, narrator and heroine of Lucy Jago’s A Net for Small Fishes, feels like she steps straight from the stage of a Jacobean masque. To an extent, she does. Turner, the widow of a London doctor, was a historical figure hanged at Tyburn for her part in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. She became an instant celebrity, vilified by contemporary playwrights. Turner was the subject of the anonymous play The Widow, The World Tossed at Tennis. This is Jago’s first foray into adult fiction – having made her name with an award-winning...

Staff Writer, and Lake Placid News acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The Lake Placid Price Chopper is one of the 135 supermarkets merging with Tops Markets under a parent company. The combined number of store locations in this new company will be around 300. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone) Tops Market in Saranac Lake is one of 169 merging with the Price Chopper company under a parent company. The combined number of store locations in this new company will be around 300. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone) The Lake Placid Price Chopper is one of the 135 supermarkets me...