Sales of Murder in the Red Barn are encouraging; barely six weeks after publication, 25% of the first print-run has been sold.
One unexpected consequence: The East Anglian Daily Times published a picture of my book-signing last week in Bury St Edmunds, and someone has written to the newspaper complaining that ‘Maria Martin’ was spelled incorrectly; it should have been Marten. In fact I went to a great deal of trouble, early on in the research for the book, to show that all parish records for the family, without exception, spelled the name Martin. The newspaper tells me that they plan to publish an editorial on all of this, this coming Saturday.
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Paul Robertson
30/8/2015 04:24:56 am
Hi Peter - This is mainly due to the seeming authority of Wikipedia I think, and everything written there seems to have propagated the spelling mistake from the subtitle of the 1935 film by Milton Rosmer. I noticed the spelling disparity when you first started to mention the Red Barn project in writing but didn't bother to "correct" you (or even mention it), assuming that you would be the one who had done his homework.
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