Mystery writer captured the Baltimore of old

(Jacques Kelly) A Maryland murder mystery writer came to mind the other afternoon as darkness was coming over Lafayette Avenue in Bolton Hill. It was an atmospheric old Baltimore scene on a dreary early December day: worn granite curbs, moss in the sidewalk cracks, wet brick on the 1870s rowhouses. I glanced inside some windows and spotted some Hepplewhite chairs. A few minutes later, I passed the clock tower at Mount Royal Station. It seemed to say, "It's getting on to 5: Go home and read a good book." Continued

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