--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100004 Date: 05/29/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 10:10am \/To: RICHARD KNOWLES (Read 4 times) Subj: Where is everybody? RK>In a message of , DOROTHY REYNOLDS (1:202/711) writes: RK> >Have been sending messages but getting no reply. Is anybody out there, RK> >or is Fido burying messaages in the yard again? RK> >Left a question about Susan Isaacs and got no reply. Guess no one RK> >reads her? RK>I saw your previous message about Susan Isaacs but I haven't read her. RK>Traffic in this area can be slow. Think I figured out why messages weren't coming through. Little problem with BBS in the throes of change over to Internet. Stuff coming through loud and clear now. Thanks for answering my messages, and you're right, traffic has been slow. What mysteries do you like to read? Do you have a favorite writer? I got hooked on Ed McBain and try to read as much of him as I can. Also like Sarah Paretsky. Right now I'm reading a Linda Barnes for the first time. Can't make a judgement yet, but will let you know. Talk to you later, Dorothy aka bears --- DBSMail V2.00g [F633BFFC] * Origin: tnl-online.com -=- san diego, ca -=- (1:202/711.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100005 Date: 05/29/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 10:14am \/To: STEVEN HORN (Read 4 times) Subj: Where is everybody? SH>DOROTHY REYNOLDS (1:202/711) wrote to ALL at 10:20 on 21 May 1996: SH> DR> Left a question about Susan Isaacs and got no reply. Guess no one SH> DR> reads her? SH>I know I don't.:-) SH> DR> Where's Suzze Tiernan and Joan Tuckey these days? Haven't seen them SH> DR> here for a long time. Hope all are okay and busy reading. SH> DR> Please let me know if my messages are coming through. May be SH> DR> something wrong with my local BBS. SH>I can't speak for Suzze but I see posts from Joan in another network. Perha SH>she is gardening. Yeah, Joan is gardening. Got a message from her yesterday. I'll probably hear from Suzze soon. Glad to know they're still around. Thanks for answering my query, Steve. Talk to you soon. DR SH>Moderator CAN_SYSLAW SH>E-mail shorn@yknet.yk.ca _or_ shorn@web.apc.org SH>--- timEd/386 1.10+ SH> * Origin: Yukon Mail, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada (1:3409/1) --- DBSMail V2.00g [F633BFFC] * Origin: tnl-online.com -=- san diego, ca -=- (1:202/711.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100006 Date: 05/30/96 From: PHYLLIS CAMPBELL Time: 2:30:am \/To: STEPHANIE SHAPTER (Read 4 times) Subj: RE: PATRICIA CORNWELL Good Morning, Stephanie Thank you for your message. As a little topic of interest, I remember when Ms Cornwell wrote her first book. We were both members of Virginia Writers, and I remember the announcement in the Newsletter. No, I've never met her, but it was interesting to me when her books took off in a blaze of glory. Thanks for telling me about the other authors. I'll check the NLS catalog. PHYLLIS CAMPBELL ... Silver Xpress!...... Don't leave home without it! * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW23764 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: It's Magic BBS, Stuarts Draft, VA (1:2602/420) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100007 Date: 05/30/96 From: MARILYN PRIBUS Time: 01:22pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 4 times) Subj: Susan Isaacs Loved Compromising Positions. It's also a movie, not too bad, with Susan Sarandan and Judith Ivy (who was great!). She's done some others, too, but I don't know about anything very recent. Why do these good authors get us hooked then go out to pasture? Lynn --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: >> Ubik: Not whodunnit... << (1:203/289) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100008 Date: 05/30/96 From: MARILYN PRIBUS Time: 01:26pm \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: A Maiden's Grave To whomever recommended this read by Deaver: THANKS! My husband is now glued to the pages. Lynn --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: >> Ubik: Not whodunnit... << (1:203/289) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100009 Date: 05/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:46pm \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 4 times) Subj: Cornwell -=> While in the White Hart, Belle Bijou insisted to Fred Runk that <=- re Cornwall BB> Virginia! Imagine, good mysteries that are not in NY or LA! Impossible!!! Inconceivable!! However, one must also include London, along with NY or LA as the only "possible settings" for "good mysteries" though. BB> She did not, in my opinion, improve after her first book. BB> The second and third were also good, but after that she BB> began to get stale and the books kind of petered out BB> instead of being resolved. Maybe time for her to develop a new character? ... He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. -Lao Tse ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100010 Date: 05/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:23pm \/To: KATHLEEN WEBER (Read 4 times) Subj: Hello? -=> While in the White Hart, Kathleen Weber insisted to Fred Runk that <=- -> -=> While in the White Hart, Jan Perkins insisted to Fred Runk that < -> -> JP> Whoops, you're absolutely right -I should have checked my -> JP> bookshelves :-( Now *what* on earth was the Tey I was thinking -> of? KW> Maybe an mystery novelist by the name of Josephine Tey. I haven't KW> seen her work in years. My father and I are big fans of her books. Yes, I think that was the one she was thinking of--the problem was a novel of Tey's that she confused with one of Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels--the one set in an artist's colony--title might have been something about red herrings I think. ... Drugs, Sex, Violence: God! How I love "Washington Week in Review." ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100011 Date: 05/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:26pm \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 4 times) Subj: Michael Crichton -=> While in the White Hart, Robert White insisted to Fred Runk that <=- RW> I generally like the Morse series, but in some of the stories he RW> really treats Sargent Lewis as an incredible dolt. I reality, Morse RW> isn't so much brilliant as he just stumbles around until his lastest RW> lady friend gets murdered and then he often flukes onto the murderer's RW> identity. Yes, sometimes he's rather hard on poor Sgt. Lewis. However, Lewis has had several chances to transfer (threatened to also on several occasions, if I remember correctly), but has turned them down. Well, sometimes he's brilliant, but you are right--his strong suit is persistence and an ability to not be disheartened when he is wrong--which he frequently is. FR> Haven't read that much by Crichton, aside from TERMINAL MAN. One of FR> these days I will pick up his novel set in an alternate universe, one FR> when the Germans had invaded and conquered England. RW> Which Crichton book is that? You aren't thinking of Len Deighton's RW> SS-GB by chance? I've read most of the books by both authors and that RW> scenario sounds more like Deighton than Crichton. I like both authors, You are right. I was thinking of SS-GB. Deighton is the man. RW> but prefer Deighton; especially the interlocking triligies of 'Game Set RW> Match' and 'Hook Line Sinker'; and then 'Winter: A Berlin Family' to RW> fill in the gaps and background of the main characters. He leaves RW> enough unsaid and unknowable to make his world of espionage seem quite RW> real. That interlocking trilogy was televised some time ago, and I tried watching it. I missed the second or third episode and was lost from then on. I eventually stopped. I should probably find the book version of it, as it seemed intriguing and rather complex. ... With money, a dragon...Without money, a worm. Old Chinese Proverb ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100012 Date: 05/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:50pm \/To: JAN PERKINS (Read 4 times) Subj: Tey -=> While in the White Hart, Jan Perkins insisted to Fred Runk that <=- JP> On 05-25-96 FRED RUNK wrote to JAN PERKINS... FR> Oh, ok. She's a comic character, then. JP> JP> Not at all - well meaning and consequently tragic. Ah, I get the picture--does more harm than good? JP> Yes a murder in a remidial gymnast training school. I really JP> think it is the best Tey I have read, and one of my all-time JP> favourite mysteries. Thanks for the recommendation--I will keep it in mind when next I go browsing. ... Attend the Emperor...Sleep with a tiger. Old Chinese Proverb ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DA100013 Date: 05/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:32pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 4 times) Subj: what are you reading... -=> While in the White Hart, Delores E Rowe insisted to Fred Runk that <=- DER> Fred Runk seemed to be taking DER on a Cook's Tour... FR> DER> <> There is probably a White Hart in every fourth village! ) FR>Ah, but this is a special White Hart; not everyone can find it. And not FR>everyone who finds it can find it again. DER> DER> Hmmm. I shall have to cogitate on that for a bit..... Well, that's what Arthur C. Clarke says about it in his introduction to his collection of short stories, TALES FROM THE WHITE HART. FR>I have seen him in something else, escapes me presently, and I did have FR>trouble dissociating him. He also was in the TV version of Peter Mayle's FR>books about living in Provence--I gather he played "Mayle." DER> DER> Someone else told me that too, but I didn't see it. A friend saw them when they first were televised. Said Thaw did a good job. However, that was before the Morse mysteries. I wonder what his reaction would be now. DER> I just put Mirror Maze down in my little book to order from the DER> library. I just love being able to long on to the library, order what I DER> want, and get it from the Post Office, about a block from my house, one DER> or two days later! Good story. Let me know what you think of it. You can get books that way? Around here, we can log on, find books, and even determine whether they are available or out, but still got to go down there and physically remove it from the shelves. DER> I got a couple that I had ordered in the mail yesterday. Both are DER> written by PHILLIP MARGOLIN, one is GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN (just DER> finished it, and thoroughly enjoyed it!) and AFTER DARK. He is a DER> criminal defense attorney in Portland, OR and was apparently the first DER> attorney to use the "battered wife syndrome" as a defense. Think I've seen several of his works on the shelves, but haven't read any yet. DER> Be a pretty dull world if we all liked reading the same stuff, huh? Yep, that's for sure. DER> That's it...THE NAME OF THE ROSE! I did enjoy that. Did you read DER> CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR, I think the author's name is Jean Auel. It was DER> one of a series. I liked the first one, the second was OK but didn't DER> like any after that. Read the first one, thought it was ok, but not interested enough to gone on with the series. I know some who have read the entire series to date, and others who quit after the first or second book. FR>Somerset Maugham? DER> DER> Yes! I read an Anthology of his books one time and found most of DER> them to be a good read! Oh, ok. I thought you meant he had a mystery series out also. DER> Yep. Just saw the new one last week, or the week before. Another DER> quality production. Yes, quality productions tend to be a habit over there. FR>Haven't read that much by Crichton, aside from TERMINAL MAN. One of hese FR>days I will pick up his novel set in an alternate universe, one when the FR>Germans had invaded and conquered England. DER> DER> Haven't read that one. Neither has anyone else--at least not in this universe. As someone else here pointed out to me--that was SS-GB, written by Len Deighton, not Michael Crichton. FR>And do you time yourself as another devoted crossword does is wont to do? DER> DER> Of course! . I also do them in pen! Now, that's confidence!!! I use a soft lead pencil with a very fat eraser. >g< DER> I am almost sorry to see DLStime come! My two cats think that feeding DER> time is whenever the sun comes up, which is tolerable in the winter, DER> but these days is a real pain in the wahzoo!!! Yes, Molly and I have discussed that very issue frequently in the past. We have compromised--she will wait until 7 am, and no longer. DER> X SLMR 2.1a X Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. And, far more difficult. ... Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen & Stupidity. ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2)