S. R. Mallery
Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads
Paperback
(Mockingbird Lane Press Dec. 16, 2013)
******NEW KINDLE AND PAPERBACK EDITIONS COMING SOON!!***** The eleven long short stories in "Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads combine history, mystery, action and/or romance, and range from drug trafficking using Guatemalan hand-woven wallets, to an Antebellum U. S. slave using codes in her quilts as a message system to freedom; from an ex-journalist and her Hopi Indian maid solving a cold case together involving Katchina spirits, to a couple hiding Christian passports in a comforter in Nazi Germany; from a wedding quilt curse dating back to the Salem Witchcraft trials, to a mystery involving a young seamstress in the infamous Triangle Shirt Factory fire; from a 1980's Romeo and Juliet romance between a rising Wall Street financial 'star' and an eclectic fiber artist, to a Haight-Asbury love affair between a professor and a beautiful macramé artist gone horribly askew, just to name a few.
- ISBN
- 0989310574 / 9780989310574
- Pages
- 276
- Weight
- 8.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.5 x 0.6
in.