Perrot P.I.s April Meeting: “The Word Is Murder,” by Anthony Horowitz
Join us on Monday, April 21, at 7 pm in the Program Room, Radcliffe Building, for a discussion of The Word Is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz. This is a drop-in program. Registration is not required. Refreshments will be served.
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor – enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who’s as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes. He chooses Anthony Horowitz. Drawn in against his will, Horowitz soon finds himself the center of a story he cannot control. Hawthorne is brusque, temperamental and annoying but even so his latest case with its many twists and turns proves irresistible. The writer and the detective form an unusual partnership. At the same time, it soon becomes clear that Hawthorne is hiding some dark secrets of his own.
Anthony Horowitz is a prolific English novelist and screenwriter specializing in mystery and suspense.
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For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Mahjong: A 3-Part Series
Mahjong instructor Rhonda Greif is back for a spring series of classes. Join our 3-part Learn to Play Mahjong Classes for Adults on Wednesdays, April 23, April 30, and May 7, from 1 to 3 pm, in the Youth Services Program Room of the Radcliffe Children’s Library.
Rhonda has been playing and teaching mahjong for 10+ years. She grew up in the early 70’s listening to the clacking sounds of the tiles during her mom’s weekly game with the “mahj ladies.” In 2010, she learned to play after her mom passed away, and she inherited her mahjong sets. Not long after learning, Rhonda found her niche in teaching others.
Please note: You will need to register for each of the 3 days of the class–April 23, April 30, and May 7. To register, please click here.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrotlibrary.org.
Perrot Library Celebrates National Poetry Month
Perrot Memorial Library will celebrate National Poetry Month on Wednesday, Apil 23, at 7 pm in our Program Room, Radcliffe Building. Poets Kevin Pilkington and Laurel Peterson will read selected poems from their respective collections.
Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of ten poetry collections and two novels. His collection Spare Change was a National Poetry Book Series Award winner. His collection Ready to Eat the Sky was a finalist for an Independent Publishers Book Award. In the Eyes of a Dog won the 2011 New York Book Festival Award. His collection Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems, published by Black Lawrence Press, was a 2017 Independent Publishers Book Award medalist. His latest poetry collection, Playing Poker With Tennessee Williams, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2021. His second novel, Taking On Secrets, was published by Blue Jade Press in 2022. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies throughout the country.
Laurel S. Peterson is a community college English professor whose poetry has been published in many literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line) and Talking to the Mirror (Last Automat), and two full-length collections, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? and Daughter of Sky (Futurecycle). She has also written two mystery novels, Shadow Notes and The Fallen (Woodhall). She is a member of the Norwalk Public Library Board, and served as Norwalk (Connecticut) Poet Laureate from April 2016 to April 2019. You can find her on Substack at laurelspeterson.substack.com.
Registration is required. Click here to register.
For more information, contact Judy Sgammato at 203-637-1066 x15 or judys@perrolibrary.org.
