Rule #1: If I'm going to murder a half dozen people somewhere, I better understand that place. So, given that I'm working on an upcoming book set in a bungalow colony, I picked this one up.The Jewish Catskills were an interesting phenomena where New York Jews settled the mountains and filled them...
To be near my parents between the ages of five and ten, I sat at the “owners’ table” in the Seven Gables kitchen where the bosses held court, and where my mother as chef sat during the rare moments she was not working. Even though the hotel had an office in the Main House, it seemed that most bus...