Liner Notes for The Alexandrine Tutor
Liner Notes for The Alexandrine Tutor So I began doing some research on Alexandria in 1900 and the slightly unofficial British protectorate of Egypt at the time. I was looking for somewhere I could slide in a mystery, a puzzle, a fun setting, a cool character. And then time caught up with me and I needed to get writing. So what if instead of going to Alexandria, our characters just pretended to? This was an easy way to deal with the unsorted and contradictory information I’d got – just have characters claim that’s what’s there and never have to reveal a truth. It's shortcuts and tricks and covering over the gaps all the way down. I would apologise but you came to the Liner Notes , you wanted to know what’s going on beneath the surface. So, someone runs away to Alexandria. I’d had Schneemann in Egypt in a flashback sequence in one of the novels, he’d been on the run, trying to get across the desert from the Nile to a Red Sea port. So his memories of Alexandria were not exa...
