Rounders Mysteries

News

AVAILABLE: Murder Is Broadcast: A Rounders Mystery

03/05/2013 10:51

The first in the Rounders Mystery is now available! You can get it now from the publisher. The web...

Website launched

02/21/2013 00:00

Our new website has been launched! Follow this website to learn more about the characters of the...

The 1950s

01/05/2013 11:07

The 1950s were the beginning of our complicated world. Today's values, morals, and tastes...

Coming Soon: Another Rounders Mystery

01/02/2013 00:00

Murder In Three Acts: A Rounder's Mystery Charlene Carlisle has been murdered in the dressing room...

Welcome to our website

Welcome to the world of the "Rounders." The Rounders are a group of small town friends in the 1950s; they meet weekly to catch up and discuss whatever comes to mind. What no one could imagine, including the Rounders themselves, is that they would become local sleuths, solving crimes, big and small—crimes that occur in the small world around Belle Plaine, Iowa.

Navigate this site to learn more about the characters, the author, the setting, the era and upcoming installments of the Rounders mysteries.

The Rounders

Midway Recipes

Mac's Loose Meat Sandwiches Ingredients: 2 lbs of ground round; 2 TBS vegetable oil; 1 tsp onion salt; ¼ cup of vinegar; ¼ cup of Worcestershire sauce; ½ tsp of salt; ¼ tsp pepper. (Add the seasoning at the end.) As you’re frying the meat, keep breaking it up until you have ‘crumbles.’ It’s...

Lawr's latest farmer joke

A farmer walked into an attorney's office wanting to file for a divorce. The attorney asked, "May I help you?" The farmer said, "Yea, I want to get one of those dayvorces." The attorney said, "Well do you have any...

The Rounders, Cast of Characters

The Rounders get their name from the round antique oak table where they meet on Thursdays for coffee and conversation. It's located at Midway: a cafe and gas station that has tourist cabins in back. Midway is at the Benton County junction of highways 218 and 30 in Eastern Iowa along...

C L (Larry) Hutchins, author

Mysteries with a difference! Six friends solve murders in small town Iowa in the 1950s. Take a walk back in time. No computers, no cell phones, no Internet! Just black and white TVs with only three stations and party line telephones.