Martha sent the novel “over the transom” (sans agent) to several publishers. Her favorite memories of that time are her mother’s cooking and her brother’s theatrical productions in the big garage behind the hotel to which she was rarely admitted.Ī long-time Anglophile, it was her first poem in Send Bygraves that inspired her to turn from poetry to mystery novels. “Although there were no murders and – alas! – no Sheriff DeGheyn, Hotel Paradise is otherwise the story of my 12-year-old life.”īorn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where her father was the City Solicitor), Martha Grimes spent every summer at her mother’s hotel in Western Maryland.
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