Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Hullo all you lovely people!
I thought I would pique your interest – or at the very least, beguile an idle five minutes – with a further list of things I have had cause to investigate for my NaNo novel, Dolly & Dot and the Mystery of the Missing Maid (coming along nicely, thank you).
In my efforts to create a historical novel which will not cause informed readers to recoil in educated disgust, I have been looking into a number of different things. Most recently:
the death of the Romanovs (with a suspiciously heavy 17 lb. cushion)
naphthalene
Raffles (the gentleman thief, not the hotel)
Black Ascot
Pekinese (crossed with a poodle = a peekapoo)
IQ (disturbing eugenic history there)
and rubber ducks.
Did you know that from 1904, drivers in the UK had to get a license to drive legally – but they didn’t have to pass any kind of test to get that license for another thirty years?
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