--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAM00005 Date: 06/17/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:53pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan insisted to All that <=- ST> I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a ST> message about it a week ago and have got no replies! ST> Anyone hear me? ST> ST> 9!!!0---5Suzze0---9!!! ST> -!- ST> ! Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) Well, don't know about anywhere else, but you are being received in Tucson, Arizona. I had a similar problem--was leaving messages for weeks, but no response. Then, my messages started getting through. ... When the shoes fit, the feet are forgotten. ___ 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: DAM00006 Date: 06/17/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 07:31pm \/To: RICHARD KNOWLES (Read 3 times) Subj: Where is everybody? -=> While in the White Hart, Richard Knowles insisted to Fred Runk that <=- RK> Ok, I need: RK> The House of Cain RK> The Beach of Atonement RK> A Royal Abduction RK> Gripped by Drought RK> Bony and the White Savage (alternative title: The White Savage) Ok, will look around and see what I can find. >Ah, interesting. Henry Fielding served as a magistrate also for some time. >Have yo read any of them? What did you think of it? RK> Yeah, I've read the first one, Blind Justice. The mystery RK> was kind of silly but Sir John is great. Poor plot, but great character? Well, practice might help. RK> My wife has be reading both. She really likes the Monks. I RK> read the first book about the Pitts and liked it but I RK> really hated the one where they first meet. What was the problem with it? ... You know you're getting older when the happy hour is a nap. ___ 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: DAN00000 Date: 06/17/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:39am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test On (15 Jun 96) Suzze Tiernan wrote to All... ST> I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a message bout ST> it a week ago and have got no replies! ST> Anyone hear me? Gotcha here in Canada. ... This tagline handcrafted in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada. --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00001 Date: 06/17/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:40am \/To: SALLY SPRINGETT (Read 3 times) Subj: Kate Ross On (16 Jun 96) SALLY SPRINGETT wrote to CATE VANICEK... SS> I have just discovered Kate Ross. Her books take place in England in SS> 1824 or thereabouts and are delightful mysteries with well-crafted SS> characters and plots. I tend to prefer historicals, or at least mysteries in which the crime can't be solved under a microscope. It just feels like cheating if you use DNA. SS> Her hero moves in the best circles though he is the son of a SS> well-born man who was cut off by his family because he married an SS> actress. His manservant is a former thief so we are permitted to see SS> all degrees of society. Sounds interesting. When our brand new library re-opens in a few weeks, I'll see if there is a copy. (That is, they're going into a new building next door.) --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00002 Date: 06/18/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:07am \/To: MARILYN PRIBUS (Read 3 times) Subj: Yo! I'd like to say to , Marilyn Pribus (1:203/289) who said: >My husband gets up way before I do on Mondays so I leave him >a note before I go to bed -- sort of "See ya later, kangaroo" >type stuff. >His response this AM: > YO! I guess he must be a Virginian ;) --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00003 Date: 06/18/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:11am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Susan Isaacs I'd like to say to , DOROTHY REYNOLDS (1:202/711) who said: BB> I'd like to say to , DOROTHY REYNOLDS (1:202/711) who said: > > Belle: Thanks for the info on James Lee Burke. I definitely will > read him. BB> He's really a pretty good actor, although I think both his brothers BB> might be better. But this was NOT the role for him. Someone on the FILM Echo said that Baldwin was a fan of Burke's books and bought the rights to HEAVEN'S PRISONERS years ago. > Agreed, his brothers are better. They are all fine looking specimens > of men, but that doesn't make one a better actor. I didn't picture > Alec as Jack Ryan in Hunt For Red October. Thought Harrison Ford > much better for the role, but what do I know? That's a no-brainer - Harrison Ford over Alec Baldwin any day in ANY role ;) > I just adore those cajun men! :} Am fascinated with Louisiana >anyway. > So much history there. Being of French extraction myself must >explain > my penchant for the place. I once visited Baton Rouge and loved > the ambience. Unfortunately time ran out before I had the chance to > visit New Orleans. Hope to get back there someday. You really should - it's a fascinating place. I'm always attracted to the whole cajun experience (ah, the food!, the music!), and I don't think anybody writes about that area as well as Burke does. > Just finished Anne Rule's book Dead by Sunset. A true story about > a suave, seemingly sophisticated man who could charm the birds > from the trees, but what a bad guy he turned out to be. If you > like True Crime stories, recommend you read it. I generally don't like true crime books, but read an excellent and very powerful one a few months ago - "sleepers" by Lorenzo Carcaterra. > Just picked up Walter Moseley's Black Betty. I suppose I should > read his books in sequence, but it's the only one in our library > at the moment. Cant' wait to get started on him. Have heard very > good words about his books. Will let you know how I like it. I enjoyed Black Betty and, like you, read it because it was the first one I found. I haven't read another of his yet, although I really enjoyed "Devil in a Blue Dress" - the movie with Denzel Washington. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00004 Date: 06/18/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:25am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Recent Reads I'm going to start with the best: VANISHING ACT by Thomas Perry - Jane Whitefield is a Native American who helps people in trouble disappear. She calls herself a "guide." In this, the first Whitefield book, she helps an ex-cop who has been sent to her by a former client. This is a fascinating, exciting, very well written book and I highly recommend it. The second one just hit the bookstores and I intend to get a copy as soon as possible. UNDUE INFLUENCE by Steve Martini is another in his Paul Madriani series, which are legal thrillers. The first one I read put me off a bit because, although he writes very well, he writes in the present tense. I've gotten beyond this affectation ONLY for Martini because he's written a terrific book - each one, in fact, gets better. SUNSET EXPRESS by Robert Crais is the latest of his Elvis Cole mysteries, and a great read. MIAMI, IT'S MURDER by Edna Buchanan is one of her Brit Montero (Cuban-American crime reporter) books. Buchanan writes of Miami like no one else. Another fast, excellent read. KISS by John Lutz is one of his Fred Carver mysteries. Residents of a nursing home in south Florida are dying in unlikely numbers and Carver investigates. Good, tight plot and sharp characterizations. THE CODICIL by Tom Topor. P.I. Adam Bruno searches for a war child born during Vietnam who has been left fifty million dollars. A child that no one in the man's family knew existed . Pretty good book. LOCAL RULES by Jay Brandon. This is basically a courtroom drama set in Texas. It kept my interest, but I'm not sure I'd read another one. And, I'm not quite sure why. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00005 Date: 06/17/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 10:12am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test ST>I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a message about it ST>week ago and have got no replies! ST>Anyone hear me? Receiving you loud and clear in Eastern Washington State! What was your question? :) *** SLMR 2.1a Cats are not pets; they own the house and let you live th --- TriToss (tm) Professional 10.0 - #189 * Origin: TMK BBS - 509.886.7607 - mystique@nwinternet.com (1:344/115.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00006 Date: 06/18/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 07:15am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test > I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a > message about it a week ago and have got no replies! > Anyone hear me? You got through to me just fine. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DAN00007 Date: 06/18/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 06:42pm \/To: RAJIV JAMES (Read 3 times) Subj: stephen.r.lawhead -=> While in the White Hart, Rajiv James insisted to Fred Runk that <=- RJ> To: FRED RUNK RJ> Subject: stephen.r.lawhead RJ> Thanx for the info. But I think Lawhead's workds are mostly RJ> mystic/medieval fiction. Won't it be off-topic in the ScienceFiction RJ> conference. Not at all. Fantasy is definitely allowable in the Fido conference. I'm fairly positive I've heard or read some conversation threads about Lawhead. For further confirmation, check with the moderators of this conference--they are the moderators of the SF conference also. There's also a large Jordon group in the conference. FINISHED: Zenna Henderson, INGATHERING CBIP: MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. April, 1992 26/162 CSIP: Gene Wolfe, CALDE OF THE LONG SUN, 196/370 Book Three of "The Book of the Long Sun" COTBIP: Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford, ROMANCE, 133/428 ... Molly the HouseGoddess says, "Life is hard, then you nap." ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2)