--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400005 Date: 07/03/96 From: SALLY SPRINGETT Time: 10:42am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Libraries FR> Around here it's an annual event, and poorly advertised, FR> whether it's the city/county public library or the Univ. of FR> Arizona Library. I guess both get enough word-of-mouth FR> advertising among the ingroup that there's no need for letting FR> the rest of us know about it. Join the Friends of the Library and you'll know everything. They hate to pay for advertising so what does appear appears in places that are free. The Friends do enough good with the money they take in that they are worth joining. ... We need to get a new bard. All this one does is drink and sing. ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.2j * Origin: (PC)^3 BBS : 716-723-8489 (1:2613/388) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400006 Date: 07/03/96 From: SALLY SPRINGETT Time: 11:00am \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test ST> I am doing another test here. Please answer (anyone) if you ST> get this. I realized the only message anyone answered me from ST> I posted directly on the BBS, I want to see if my messages in ST> Blue Wave are making it out. MG> Next time, just post a message with a Great Big Mistake. You MG> will get many responses. Cynic. ... "It's Ensign Garcia!" "He's dead, Jim, and grateful." ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 --- Platinum Xpress/386/Wildcat! v1.2j * Origin: (PC)^3 BBS : 716-723-8489 (1:2613/388) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400007 Date: 06/28/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 06:40pm \/To: JOAN TUCKEY (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> Quoting Joan Tuckey to Suzze Tiernan <=- JT> Hello Suzze! JT> 23 Jun 96 14:57, Suzze Tiernan wrote to Stephanie Shapter: ST> I am doing another test here. Please answer (anyone) if you get this. ST> I realized the only message anyone answered me from I posted directly ST> on the BBS, I want to see if my messages in Blue Wave are making it ST> out. JT> Looks good from here. :-) Good. Now I'm sure I'm getting out to everyone (except Helen ) Just got back from the cottage. Read 6 books in 6 days. Love it. ... Photons have mass? I didn't know they were Catholic! --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400008 Date: 06/28/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 07:03pm \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to Suzze Tiernan <=- MG> Next time, just post a message with a Great Big Mistake. You MG> will get many responses. Laugh. That's for sure. People sure are quick to point out mistakes aren't they? Sometimes not very nicely either. ... I should have quit while I was not as far behind. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400009 Date: 06/28/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 07:04pm \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Test, again -=> Quoting HELEN FLEISCHER to Suzze Tiernan <=- HF> Hi Suzze, this time I saw it, though I'm really late catching up on my HF> mail packets after a trip to the in-laws in NJ. HF> Current Bedtime Reading: Dead Men's Hearts by Aaron Elkins. A Gideon HF> Oliver story set in Egypt; who could ask for more? ;) Glad to see it made it to you. I just got back from 6 days at the cottage. Read 6 books. 3 mysteries - "Tis the season to be Murdered" by Valerie Wolzien ( I LOVE Susan Henshaw!); "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth" by Tamar Myers. (My first by her - very very funny), and "New Orleans Requiem" by D.J. Donaldson. Betty sent me a signed copy of that one - it involves Scrabble! It was very good. I also read a book that involved a murder, "Miami Purity" by Vicki Hendricks. I wouldn't call it a mystery though, more of an excuse to write about sex. I also read a book called "White Rabbit" which is about an 88 year old woman on the last day of her life. Her and her husband are 2 strange folks (probably no more than other 88-year olds though). I really liked this book! I also read "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan. It still had the receipt in it from when I bought it in '93. EXCELLRNT. Amy Tan is one heck of a writer. I read all 500+ pages in about 10 hours, I couldn't out it down!!! I guess it was a lucky vacation too - no duds! ... Brain damage? No thanks, I already have some. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400010 Date: 06/30/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:07pm \/To: PIERRE AMADIO (Read 5 times) Subj: Holmes 's addiction On (27 Jun 96) pierre amadio wrote to All... pa> I have read that Sherlock Holmes (hope the spelling is good) usually takes pa> drugs beetween two periods of works in order to have something to do ith pa> his mind. I read it a long time ago, and i dont remember where. pa> Does any of you know if he takes morphin or cocaine ? Your spelling is fine. Sherlock Holmes occasionally injected himself with a 7-1\2% solution of cocaine. There is a novel by Nicholas Meyer, plus a film with that name (THE 7-1\2% SOLUTION). He felt that it stimulated his mind. This was entirely legal during that time period. --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400011 Date: 06/30/96 From: LARRY HORTON Time: 10:33pm \/To: PIERRE AMADIO (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Holmes 's addiction Pierre, Some have said that Holmes took cocaine but I don't recall that drug usage ever appeared in the orginal Doyle works. It seems that it became a popular idea in the movies and later literature. ttyl Larry --- JMail-H 2.80 (Omega 4) [EVAL DA * Origin: Dusty's Palace (Home Of The DownTown BBS) (FIDONET 1:387/1001) --------------- ** A related thread FOLLOWS this message. FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EGV10888 Date: 12/26/97 From: PAUL KRUEGER Time: 01:14am \/To: LARRY HORTON (Read 3 times) Subj: R: Re: Holmes 's addiction LH>Pierre, LH>Some have said that Holmes took cocaine but I don't recall that drug usa LH>ever appeared in the orginal Doyle works. It seems that it became a pop LH>idea in the movies and later literature. LH>ttyl LH>Larry LH>--- JMail-H 2.80 (Omega 4) [EVAL DA LH> * Origin: Dusty's Palace (Home Of The DownTown BBS) (FIDONET 1:387/1001 Unfortunately it's sad but true. In the second Holmes story "The Sign of Four" Holmes takes a 7 per cent solution during the beginning and ending chapters. Happily, in "The Missing Three-Quarter" Watson writes "under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artificial stimulus". For a fascinating look at how he was cured, I recommend "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" by Nicholas Meyer. --------------- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> LAST Message In Thread <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400012 Date: 06/30/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 10:14pm \/To: PHIL POCOCK (Read 3 times) Subj: Test > ST> I am doing another test here. Please answer (anyone) if you get this. > ST> I realized the only message anyone answered me from I posted directly > ST> on the BBS, I want to see if my messages in Blue Wave are making it > ST> out. > Just browsing as that's practically all I ever do in this echo, > but did note that your message made its way this far south! [g] > << Phil from San Antonio, TX at 13:08:38 on Fri 06-28-96>> Hey Phil... Didn't know you lurked here!! Also didn't know you were a mystery fan. Have you read anything good lately? I'm in the middle of the new Kat Colorado mystery, "Honky tonk Kat" and it's very good. I've given myself 15 minutes to read through here, then back to Kat's latest adventures. Say hello to Dot for me. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400013 Date: 07/01/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 09:23am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Messaging and authors On 24 Jun 96 Fred Runk said this about that to Sam Waring: SW>> Bookdealer's choice. FR> Really? I guess I thought the publishers had some say in that. The only thing publishers get to tell us about is what kinda dreck they're intending to publish *this* season, and how much discount or co-op advertising they'll allow us (it's never enough, of course). Many publishers will put category suggestions against the titles in their frontlist catalogues each season, but they can't impose it on us from above. The category suggestions can be helpful at times; with some of the things they see fit to publish, the only categories that come to *my* mind at cataloguing time are "trash," "junk," "waste of paper," and several unprintable descriptions. SW>> I've seen her latest books put in "mystery" with her earlier ones SW>> and also in mainstream fiction, in different stores. FR> I have seen cases where a book was shelved in two areas, mostly when FR> the author writes something outside of the usual area of speciality. Sure; you want to make certain that your customers don't miss their favorite author's new title simply because sie decided to write something outside hir usual range. ... Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/91.12)