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Best-selling author Martha Grimes was the guest of honor at a special program presented by the Mayor and Town Council of Mountain Lake Park Saturday afternoon. In front of a standing-room-only crowd in the town hall, Grimes spoke about the characters and locations in her four-book series that center on the town, and more specifically on the Mountain Lake Park Hotel during its heyday years of operation. The main character in those books is 12-year-old Emma Brown, whose mother was a co-owner of the hotel, as was the case with Grimes’ mother in real life. “Emma is indeed autobiographical; however, she represents not the person I was, but the person I would have liked to have been at that age,” Grimes said. Grimes is best known internationally for her 22-novel Richard Jury mystery series, one book of which garnered her the coveted Nero Wolfe Award for Best Mystery of the Year. The Mayor and Town Council presented to her an original painting of the Mountain Lake Park Hotel, partially visible in the photo above, and also unveiled a permanent historical plaque featuring her and her books that will be placed on an exhibit stand in front of the town hall facing the former MLP Hotel property. Holding the plaque in the photo above are town council member Don Sincell and Mayor Leo Martin (far right). Also in the photo with Ms. Grimes is Kathryn Sincell-Corwell, far left, who coordinated the Martha Grimes Day event and also arranged for the painting of the hotel. Following the program, Grimes signed copies of her books for scores of interested readers. A resident of the Washington, D.C., area, Grimes was accompanied by her son Kent, daughter-in-law Travis, and two grandsons. Photo by John McEwen.
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