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Aug 23

Remembering author Richard Behrens

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The late author of the Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mysteries would be turning 56 this month. Richard, you are greatly missed! Pictured here with Lizzie Borden on the wall of rogues at the Sherlock Holmes Museum, London, 2016.

Aug 04

Remembering Andrew and Abby Borden

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On August 4th we pause to remember Andrew and Abby Borden and how their lives were tragically cut short on that fateful 1892 morning in Fall River, MA.

Aug 03

A Free Preview to Mark the 125th Anniversary

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A Free Preview to Mark the 125th Anniversary

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On August 4th, 1892, Lizzie Borden’s father Andrew and step-mother Abby were brutally murdered in their home in Fall River, MA. Lizzie, who was at home at the time of the murders, was accused of killing her father and step-mother. Her trial...

Feb 15

NEW! The Lizzie Borden Podcast Episode 10: Parallel Lives and the Fall River Historical Society

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NEW! The Lizzie Borden Podcast Episode 10: Parallel Lives and the Fall River Historical Society

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Today we will be talking with the Fall River Historical Society curators Michael Martins and Dennis Binette who will discuss the story behind their phenomenal book Parallel Lives: A Social History of Lizzie A. Borden and Her Fall River, published by the...

Dec 30

NEW Podcast Episode 8: The Historic Fires of Fall River

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NEW Podcast Episode 8: The Historic Fires of Fall River

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Fall River, MA has been described as “a city built to burn.” In this episode Dr. Stefani Koorey takes the listener through the major conflagrations that destroyed large swathes of Fall River throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. This episode also takes...

Aug 08

NEW Visual YouTube Edition of The Lizzie Borden Podcast – Episode 4: Playing Uncle John

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NEW Visual YouTube Edition of The Lizzie Borden Podcast – Episode 4: Playing Uncle John

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Aug 03

NEW Episode 5 of The Lizzie Borden Podcast, Part 2 of The Primer

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NEW Episode 5 of The Lizzie Borden Podcast, Part 2 of The Primer

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In this Episode Sarah Miller, the author of The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & The Trial of the Century, helps out with a Lizzie Borden Primer. For those listeners who are unfamiliar with the details of Lizzie Borden’s life and the Borden Murders...

Jul 22

NEW Lizzie Borden Podcast: Uncle John Morse with Joe Radza

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NEW Lizzie Borden Podcast: Uncle John Morse with Joe Radza

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Listen to the fourth episode of The Lizzie Borden Podcast, produced and directed by Richard Behrens for Nine Muses Books. In this Episode Joe Radza discusses the dramatizations at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast this August 4th and his role...

Jul 19

Happy 156th Birthday Lizzie Borden!

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Happy 156th Birthday Lizzie Borden!

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Jul 04

Happy Independence Day from Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective!

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Happy Independence Day from Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective!

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The first “official” state celebration of the Fourth of July occurred in Massachusetts in 1781. Boston was the first city to officially designate July 4th as a holiday, in 1783. The act of Congress establishing Fourth of July as a...

Jun 18

Lizzie’s 30th Birthday European Grand Tour

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Lizzie’s 30th Birthday European Grand Tour

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In the late 16th century, it became quite fashionable for young aristocratic men to travel abroad to France and Italy to complete their classical education. There they studied literature, art and architecture in such cities as Paris, Florence, Venice...

Jun 03

Michael Martins of the Fall River Historical Society

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Michael Martins of the Fall River Historical Society

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Excellent video featuring Michael Martins of the Fall River Historical Society http://fb.me/2jG9tICLL

Apr 24

The Lizzie Borden Podcast – Episode One: The Doggerel

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The Lizzie Borden Podcast – Episode One: The Doggerel

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Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. (sung to the tune of the nineteenth century song Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay.) Folklore suggests that this jump rope rhyme that assumes Lizzie’s...

Jan 02

Happy Birthday Nine Muses Books!

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Happy Birthday Nine Muses Books!

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It was one year ago today that we began publishing the Lizzie Borden, Girl Detective Mystery series. We are grateful to all fans who downloaded our books and posted marvelous reviews expressing their enthusiasm for the series. Beginning this year, we...

May 23

Doctor Seabury Bowen Revealed

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A recent meeting of the Mutton Eaters, the Fall River Chapter of the Second Street Irregulars, focused on the life of Dr. Seabury W. Bowen of Fall River. The good doctor was a crucial player in the events of August 4, 1892. No account of the murders...

May 06

Lizzie Borden’s River

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Lizzie Borden’s River

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Fall River is named after the Quequechan (pronounced by Fall Riverites Quick-a-shan) which is the word in the Wampanoag tongue for Falling River. While the city has not been called Fall River continuously since the land’s purchase from the Wampanoag...