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Dora keeps the flame burning waiting for Edward to return home from the Great War athttps://edwardwarethrillers.org. ReadKey to Lawrence Special Edition. Follow the Edward Ware Thrillers Board on Pinterest.

It’s Dora’s reflections, Dora’s thoughts, fears, and dreams, that make up Key to Lawrence. Dora could be writing it all down in an Edwardian country diary or journal pictured today on https://edwardwarethrillers.org. She could lament about being the fiancee of… Continue Reading →

Dora Benley, the heroine of Key to Lawrence Special Edition, lived one hundred years ago at the beginning of the Great War. The daughter of a Pittsburgh Robber Baron, she was accustomed to the best that money could buy. She… Continue Reading →

The mysterious second explosion could have happened because of coal dust created by the ship’s coal burning engines that emitted smoke from its stacks. But in Key to Lawrence Special Edition the saboteur does the ship in.

Old photo of the ship Lusitania surrounded by smaller boats. The Lusitania was headed from New York to Liverpool on May 1 when it left New York. But it never made it to the dock. Instead it is here for… Continue Reading →

Horror at sea. The Lusitania is turning onto its starboard side and sinking in 18 minutes. See it in Liverpool, England this summer. Lusitania

Lusitania cushion. Miss Dora Benley probably sat on this cushion while dining aboard the Lusitania in May of 1915. All these small details are incorporated into Key to Lawrence Special Edition. Lusitania cushion

Lusitania propeller is one of the artifacts that survives from the sinking on May 7, 1915. You can see it on display right now in Liverpool. Lusitania’s propeller

This Lusitania paper fan could have belonged to Miss Dora Benley who boarded the Lusitania on May 1, 1915 for its last voyage. It’s now being displayed in Liverpool. Dora’s Fan

Lusitania deckchair on displaying at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool makes the sinking 100 years ago seem all too real. We imagine sitting on deck scanning the horizon for any sign of a U-boat or the wake of a torpedo… Continue Reading →