For historian Christian Shaw, nothing ruins Family Game Night faster than murder. Prosector Joe Poli Dead is late joining the game night when he has to work regarding the death of Sandra Kule, one of the heirs and working owners of Kule Ice Cream. The suspects, let’s just say they’re all in the family. The police like her sister Barb for the deed, but Joe isn’t so sure. Now Christian is using her specialized knowledge to root out the truth.
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ABOUT Sorry
The game Sorry was created in England in the late 1920s by William Henry Storey, who registered it as a trademark in the UK in 1920 and receive a US patent in Aug 1930. The patent link is in the show notes. The patents describes in detail the parts of the board, the men, the cards, and how to play. Mr. Storey went on to say “the above apparatus used as above described is calculated and has been proved by experience to be a prolific source of amusement and provides a game which calls for the exercise of a great deal of judgment while being dependent in a measure on an uncertain factor such as is calculated to add to the excitement of the game, though due to the choice of moves allowed when certain cards are turned up, the influence of the element of chance as a determining factor is much reduced in comparison with the skill exercised by a player in choosing his moves.”
Several sources cite the Indian game Pachisi as inspiration or basis for Sorry. The link to the Wikipedia page is in the shownotes. Rather than a square board, Pachisi uses a cross-shaped board. The goal is to move all of your pieces onto and around the board before the other players. The number of spaces moved is determined by throwing shells and counting how many land upright. There are several variations of the game, some dating back to 1100-800 BC.
Rabbit Hole Material:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1903661.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry!_(game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachisi
ABOUT Kathleen Marple Kalb
https://kathleenmarplekalb.com
Kathleen Marple Kalb describes herself as an Author/Anchor/Mom…not in that order. An award-winning weekend anchor at New York’s 1010 WINS Radio, she writes short stories and novels including the Ella Shane and Old Stuff mysteries, both from Level Best Books. As Nikki Knight, she writes the Grace the Hit Mom and Vermont Radio mysteries. Her stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, online, and in anthologies, and been short-listed for Derringer and Black Orchid Novella Awards. She, her husband, and son live in a Connecticut house owned by their cat.
SORRY NOT SORRY is part of Kathleen’s Old Stuff Mystery series. When Hollywood comes to a small Connecticut town, it should be the stuff of dreams…but a fading movie star drops dead on-set and a whole different kind of stuff hits the fan. Historian Christian Shaw uses her knowledge of old things to track the killer in THE STUFF OF MURDER, Kathleen Marple Kalb’s new Old Stuff Mystery, out now from Level Best Books.
TG Wolff 