2007 AUTUMN LUNCHEON

Over 50 Adventuresses and friends gathered at Moran’s in NYC on December 1. Thanks go to ASH Paulette Green who donated nineteen copies of Trevor Hall’s The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes to be given out in a drawing. We mourned the loss of Francine Morris Swift and heard the traditional toasts: the Queen, Mickey Fromkin; Irene Adler, Becky Robare; Sherlock Holmes, Carol Fish; John Watson, Alan Rachlin; Arthur Conan Doyle, Lynn Walker; and friendship, Sandy Kozinn.

Lyndsay Faye shared her experiences on writing and selling her still-to-be-titled novel on Holmes and the Ripper. Publication is scheduled for February 2009. Three winter cases were inimitably addressed by Susan Rice (MISS), Marilynne McKay (ABBE) and M.E. Rich (BLUE). Bob Bousquet reworked “The Night Before Christmas” from Moriarty’s point of view, and favorite ASH songs were sung.