We do occasionally set up field trips. We support a trip of mystery to England on a bi-annual basis. In 2000 the destination will be Yorkshire. The trip is based on mystery books, authors and events. See our web site for details as they become available.
Meetings feature a speaker and guest reader.
Speakers have included forensic experts, attorneys, private detectives and police officers as well as mystery writers, agents, editors, screenwriters and producers. Readers are published authors who are members of SinC. Local bookseller Crime Time Books sells the featured reader s books at the meetings. In 1997, it published Murder by Thirteen, an anthology of short fiction. One of the stories, If Thine Eye Offend Thee by Rosalind Roland, won the prestigious Robert L. Fish Memorial Award from MWA as best first short story by an American author. Another, L.A. Justice by Kris Neri, won the Derringer Award and inspired Neri to launch its characters into her first published novel, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen.