Frances Morey knew how to keep busy, and she did so into her 90s. She died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 13.

James Kelly of East Hampton and Tarpon Springs, Fla., a retired General Foods executive, sports enthusiast, and proud Irish-American, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 2. He was 87 and had cancer for the last two years.

Christina David Hupalowsky loved gardening, swimming, birding, and boating in her favorite place, Gardiner’s Bay, her husband, Thomas Hupalowsky, wrote. She died of lung cancer on Oct. 1 in Venice, Fla., at the age of 66.

This month’s column is all about mysteries, one of my favorite book genres. I love the suspenseful race of trying to figure out whodunit or what happened before the characters do. I love jaw dropping plot twists.