READING BETWEEN THE LINES - "KOJAK" & "THE SNOOP SISTERS"

‘KOJAK’
“A VERY DEADLY GAME”

“Here I thought I would run into a couple of junkies 

and I run into the Snoop Sisters.” 

Lt. Theo Kojak

Ernesta Snoop and her sister Gwendolyn Nicholson worked in tandem as authors of mystery novels and got involved in solving mysteries themselves.  I like to think that the Snoop Sisters knew Abigail Mitchell, Dame Margo Woodhouse, Dame Abigail Austin, Glynis Granville, and Eudora McVeigh Shipton, crossing paths with them at conventions and book fairs.  (Jessica Fletcher was still a schoolteacher in Cabot Cover, Maine, and would not be published until the 1980s.)

And apparently it looks likely that if Theo Kojak had not read any of their books, he at least was cognizant of their existence and what they did in Life.  

BCnU!