Life can be difficult at times if you share the name of someone who is prominent in the day's news.
Take the case of Peter Robinson.
As Ali Karim explains at the Rap Sheet blog, Peter Robinson is the First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Unfortunately, Mr. Robinson appears to be involved in something of a scandal, as his wife, Iris, also a politician, has resigned her post, following reports of an extramarital affair with a young man less than a third her age.
Unfortunate, to be sure. But apparently it is also unfortunate for another Peter Robinson - one more likely to be familiar to mystery readers, as he is the English-born Canadian author of a number of first-rate mysteries about Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. According to the BBC, the mystery author has been receiving a great deal of unwanted email - some offering condolences on "his wife's" behavior, others more rude and vulgar - which, as he isn't the politician Peter Robinson, is more than a little irritating.
I agree with Ali Karim: "This is what happens when you let some people near the Internet without adult supervision."
