Now, the stories about Anna and Christian haven’t yet reached December, but I will still allow myself to speculate a bit about Christmas gifts, inspired by ‘Where to Meet Christmas 1906’, which is ,admittedly, a few years older, but the shops still exist in 1910. … Read moreChristmas gifts – the challenge of the year – even to Anna and Christinan
It’s September and time for the big issues of the fashion magazines. Nothing new there as fashion has been described, predicted, laughed at etc. for a very long time. Both Anna and Christian are very fashion concious. Anna enjoys shopping in Paris with Paul Poiret, … Read moreSeptember is – Fashion of course
International Dance Day. Something that naturally catches my attention, given that I have a protagonist like Christian la Cour. Formerly a principal dancer in the Royal Danish Ballet and now a top detective in the police force. But he is still a dancer at heart. … Read moreInternational Day of Dance
History, true crime, cosy crime or crime fiction? All of it, actually. There’s a lot of true crime which means maybe 80% is based on actual cases, which also means that there are illustrations. It’s cosy in the sense, that you won’t be on edge, … Read moreA little bit of…
Copenhagen was a city on the rise, with a growing sense of self-assurance. It aspired to be a metropolis, but its size didn’t quite match up. Demolishing the ramparts had helped, but it wasn’t that long ago. Nevertheless, the half million Copenhageners were quick to … Read moreCopenhagen 1910
Because I felt other time periods were overused. There’s a lot of Victorian era content – largely due to Sherlock Holmes – and plenty from the twenties, which are apparently seen as glamorous, but there was nothing in between. I searched online to see what … Read moreWhy 1910?
Anna and Christian become instant friends due to a quote from Monsieur Lecoq. Most likely only very few have heard of him now, but Emile Gaboriau wrote before Conan Doyle. Monsieur Lecoq first appears in the novel ‘L’Affaire Lerouge’, which was published as a serial … Read moreThe First True Detective Novel
Even fictional characters make fashion choices, and you are careful to make the right ones for them. I have a leading lady who is young, strong, eancipated, with a science education, working as a journalist and with a practical approach to fashion. My leading man, … Read moreTrilby, Fedora and Cape Coat
When your story is set in 1910 a lot of things have to be checked. And it’s not just clothes. Back then both men and women used perfumes. And then you hunt for what was actually available then and what were they like? You might … Read moreScents of the past
AI can’t get hold of everything because an awful lot of stuff is not online, and it doesn’t all make easy reading. Not even to the human eye. I write my stories about Lendorph & la Cour based on reality – a lot of it … Read moreOutside AI