Mystery
All is not right in the Prophet’s family as multiple wives are being murdered. As each wife testifies about her role in the family, the secret to the murder lies in the Mormon past. The sequel to Walt Whitman and the Phrenology of Murder is now available in paperback and Kindle.
Play
Hanging Pictures focuses on four paintings of the gay American modernist, Marsden Hartley. It deals with artistic politics in the Stieglitz circle. What is to be hung, where, and for how long?
Welcome to the writer’s website of Paul Raymond Reid. I write mysteries, opera libretti, poems, and plays. My second mystery, Another Book of Mormons, is available through Amazon. It is the sequel to the first Eugene Lannon mystery, Walt Whitman and the Phrenology of Murder. My play about Marsden Hartley, Hanging Pictures, is available to read. I hope you find something I write worthy of your attention.
Ourself, our loved ones, our pets, opera divas, detectives in mysteries, personas in opera libretti and plays—some based on real life people, others less so, subjects of poems, each has a role to play in lifetime’s arc. They teach us. We continually learn from them.
