Dear Friends,

This has been a busy year promoting and preparing for various re-issues of Elizabeth's books in 2008.

A new edition of Elizabeth Daniels Squire’s first mystery novel, Kill the Messenger appears under Five Star Publications’ Five-Star Sleuths imprint December 2008, followed in sequence by new Five-Star Sleuths editions of all seven mysteries featuring Squire’s memorable but memory-challenged amateur detective, Peaches Dann.

Five Star Publications recently released a newly revised edition of Fortune In Your Hand by Elizabeth Daniels Squire.  The book, first published in 1960 and widely regarded as the definitive guide to palmistry, is available now.

In addition to a complete how-to guide to hand-reading, this updated edition of Fortune In Your Hand includes a comprehensive history of palmistry from prehistoric Indian and Gypsy traditions to the modern era.  It also shows readers how to take good hand-prints of their own for closer study.  It contains all of the illustrations from the original edition, including the hand-prints of such celebrities as Salvador Dali, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Helen Keller, as well as an annotated bibliography and an extensive index.   

Elizabeth Daniels Squire, who died in 2001 while returning from a book promotion tour in Alaska, was posthumously inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2006.  This new Five Star edition of Fortune In Your Hand was revised and updated by her long-time editors (and husband and youngest son), C. B. Squire (me), and Worth Squire, based on notes left by the author.   

All the best,

Chick Squire

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Available Now!

TAR HEEL DEAD: Tales of Mystery and
Mayhem from North Carolina

The University of North Carolina Press
May 2005

ISBN 0-8078-5604-5
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This mystery anthology contains eighteen short stories set in or written by authors from North Carolina. Besides Elizabeth Daniels Squire, this anthology includes many other well-known writers, such as O. Henry, Lilian Jackson Braun, Orson Scott Card, Margaret Maron, Michael Malone, and BarbaraNeely.

The stories in this collection are as diverse as the "detectives" they feature: the Native American policeman who solves his first case on the reservation; a Siamese cat with an intuitive affection for his paraplegic neighbor; an attentive convenience store owner; and a thirty-year-old computer whiz whose body stopped growing when he was nine. They solve crimes, locate treasures, and uncover deceit in a range of tales that reflects the breadth of the genre. With stories to delight mystery devotees and fans of all good writing, this anthology highlights one of the most vibrant and popular elements of North Carolina's literary legacy.

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THE LIZ READER: A Collection of the Shorter Works of Elizabeth Daniels Squire

Silver Dagger Mysteries/Overmountain Press 2002

ISBN 1-57072-227-7 Hardcover.$23.95 US
ISBN 1-57072-228-5 Softcover.$13.95 US

This compilation of fiction and non-fiction by the late Elizabeth Daniels Squire is comprised of short stories, poetry, newspaper columns, and, of course, writings on Liz's interest in palm reading. Edited by her husband, the collection includes some pieces which have never before been published, along with tributes from Margaret Maron, Anne Underwood Grant, and many others.

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