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There is a new series called the Louisa May Alcott Mysteries, by Anna MacLean. As far as I can tell, Louisa Jessica-Fletchers around New England, solving mysterious deaths. The second book in the series just landed on my cataloging shelf, and I must now share with you the first paragraph of the back-cover blurb:

“In 1855, even though I was still the unknown ‘Louy’ Alcott, I had started to reap some of the rewards of my labors. Under a pen name, I had sold a couple of my ‘blood and thunder’ romance stories and a collection of children’s fables, but Little Women was just the germ of an idea. I wish the same were true for murder….”

Hee! On a surreality scale of zero to Being John Malkovich, this is at least a 7.