--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400044 Date: 06/26/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 09:58pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Mysteries -=> Quoting Fred Runk to Dorothy Reynolds <=- -=> While in the White Hart, Dorothy Reynolds insisted to Fred Runk that FR> <=- FR> I suspect most authors have a formula, but either they publish their FR> books sufficiently far apart in time that most readers never pick it up FR> or they can vary their formula enough to disguise it. You are probably right. From what I've read and heard, there aren't too many original ideas for a story. Just different slants and approaches by each author. If he/she is skilled at their craft, can make each plot seem a new story. DR> Guess that's why I kind of jump around from author to author. Find DR> this to be the case in whatever genre I read. FR> I frequently do this also. Well, today was a windfall day. One of the contributors to our private library brought 3 large cardboard boxes full of books. Yippee. There's quite a few mysteries in the bunch. DR> decided to try my hand at writing a Romance. "Surely, I can do DR> better than this" I told myself and sat down to attempt it. We'll DR> see if it plays in Peoria. :} FR> Hope it plays in Peoria, and a lot of other places too, including the FR> publishers. Thank you. I hope so too. Have two or three publishers in mind to submit it too. Sent it out once and got a rejection, "it didn't meet their requirements, but good luck with your writing," kind. Have been doing lots of re write and it seems to be shaping up better. Then I'll try again and keep trying. something's bound to click one of these light years. FR> I saw the movie ZORBA THE GREEK before reading the novel--in fact read FR> the novel because I liked the movie so much. Now, whenever I reread FR> the novel, FR> it's Anthony Quinn I see as Zorba. Never did read the book, but I'm sure I would picture Quinn in the role, had I done so. But of course, I'm a great fan of Quinn. He can bring any role from any book to life. Can't say that about some actors. Well my friend, will let you know what treasures I find in the new books. Picked out one that caught my eye. Ritual Murder, by S.T. Haymon. Are you familiar with her works? This will be my first time to read her. The synopsis on the inside of the dust jacket intrigued me enough to want to read it. DR> Happy reading, and thanks for you most intelligent posts. Find DR> them very enjoyable. FR> It's always a pleasure to read one of your posts. FR> ... Yellow gold...Plentiful compared to white-haired friends. This is great. And I hope you consider me one of your "white-haired friends." (G). FR> ___ FR> X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X FR> -!- Maximus 2.02 FR> ! Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) ... You know you're getting older when the happy hour is a nap. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho/32 1.20/Pro * Origin: Pacific Rim Information -=- San Diego, CA -=- (1:202/711) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400045 Date: 06/26/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 10:27pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Various... -=> Quoting Fred Runk to Dorothy Reynolds <=- -=> While in the White Hart, Dorothy Reynolds insisted to Fred Runk that FR> <=- DR> mysteries written by Kevin Robinson who used to participate in DR> Titles: Split Seconds (which I haven't been able to find to buy, DR> Mall Rats DR> A Matter of Perspective. FR> SPLIT SECONDS? Name is familiar. I think I saw a movie by that name FR> or something similar. Could that have been him? I don't think so. There was also a movie advertised on TV some time back titled Mall Rat but definitely not Kevin's book. I'm sure had his books been adapted for a movie, we'd have known about it here. DR> newspaper column (which Kevin actually does). He's wheel chair DR> bound. (And Kevin is too). I think he's based his character on DR> himself. :}. DR> The protaganist hangs out in the malls to gather material for DR> involved in a mystery and of course, with the aid of his DR> friends, solves it. I particularly enjoyed the books for having FR> I guess malls are taking over from town square, the corner pub, and FR> the general store as places to get into trouble, or at least hear about FR> it. So I've heard. Whatever happened to the days when people hung out around the cracker barrel and swapped tall tales? Wonder if that still happens in the small towns? When I was a kid living in Long Beach, Ca. the old fellows used to sit on the bench in the park and exchange dialogue. My grandfather called it the "Spit and Argue Club." Nowadays, the young fellows (and girls) hang out in the malls and street corners exchanging gunfire. Sad commentary. Deleted some stuff here to save bandwidth. DR> Well, I guess teaching is a different ball of wax than training DR> new employees, but in a way it's similar. The bottom line is DR> willing to learn. FR> Yep, agreed. I think the difference is, to repeat myself, many of FR> yours were there involuntarily while many or most of mine were FR> voluntary. That does seem to make a difference. We work because we're forced to, but as adults we go to school by choice. Therefore, we have a more open mind. DR> The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for DR> curiosity. This really says it all doesn't it? FR> Nice, very nice. Going to work on that one too. Can't wait to see what you come up with this time. Here's another one for you to work on. See what you can do with it. DR ... We have quit learning if we don't feel a little more ignorant every day. FR> ... New clothes and old friends are best. Old Chinese Proverb And I have both, which makes me rich. (g). FR> ___ FR> X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X FR> -!- Maximus 2.02 FR> ! Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2) ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho/32 1.20/Pro * Origin: Pacific Rim Information -=- San Diego, CA -=- (1:202/711) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400046 Date: 06/28/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 09:32am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Test -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to Stephanie Shapter <=- -=> Quoting Stephanie Shapter to Suzze Tiernan <=- -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to All <=- ST> I'm still not sure if my mail is getting out, as I posted a message ST> about it a week ago and have got no replies! ST> Anyone hear me? SS> Hello? I hear you loud and clear in Fort Worth, TX!! Hello Suzze: I wondered where you were! Glad to see you back. I hear you in San Diego, Ca. where the June Gloom meets the sea. Will write to you soon. Been very busy "Creating," and haunting the mail box, hoping for a "we like your story, check is in the mail," letter. Dare I hope? (G). Dorothy Reynolds 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. ST> ... I tried to contain myself, but I escaped. ST> -!- ST> ! Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho/32 1.20/Pro * Origin: Pacific Rim Information -=- San Diego, CA -=- (1:202/711) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400047 Date: 06/30/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 06:04pm \/To: KATHLEEN MORRISON (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Voodoo -=> Quoting Kathleen Morrison to Patricia Ferrara <=- KM> I would say so, yes. Just be careful that the gris-gris doesn't KM> to a 180 and come to rest in YOUR lap.. Since I was just kidding, I'm safe. I wouldn't even begin to know how to put one on someone. What's more, I don't want to know and would never have used the knowledge on the author (or anyone else for that matter) if I did have it. Patsy ... Reality is for people with no grasp of fantasy. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Orion's Sword | Bush, LA | (504) 867-9701 | V.* (1:3828/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400048 Date: 06/30/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 06:11pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Poor Spelling & Future Generations -=> Quoting Delores E Rowe to Fred Runk <=- DER> I really wonder what's going to happen to future generations that DER> cannot add or subtract without a calculator or spell without a spell DER> checker. A major power outage and they are brain dead! There's no mystery there. All you have to do is take notice of signs in stores, brochures in the mail, and other things you'd expect to have been done professionally. If you keep your eyes open, you'll see the errors on a daily basis. Some might just be typos, but I see it too frequently to believe that excuse for all of it. Well, I'm off to read another in Joan Hess' Claire Malloy series. I always enjoy hers. I just hope I don't end up reading way past my bedtime, as I so often do. It's hard enough to get up early on Monday mornings without having a lack of sleep to make it worse. :) Patsy ... Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time is come... --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Orion's Sword | Bush, LA | (504) 867-9701 | V.* (1:3828/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB400049 Date: 06/30/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 08:43pm \/To: PIERRE AMADIO (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Holmes 's addiction -=> Quoting pierre amadio to All <=- pa> I have read that Sherlock Holmes (hope the spelling is good) usually pa> takes drugs beetween two periods of works in order to have something to pa> do with his mind. Does any of you know if he takes morphin or cocaine ? It was my understanding that he smoked opium. Patsy ... If you don't know the answer, someone will ask the question. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Orion's Sword | Bush, LA | (504) 867-9701 | V.* (1:3828/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB500000 Date: 07/03/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 10:17am \/To: RUSS JERNIGAN (Read 4 times) Subj: Holmes 's addiction On (01 Jul 96) Russ Jernigan wrote to Patricia Ferrara... PF> It was my understanding that he smoked opium. RJ> I thought that it was a seven percent solution of cocaine? In "The Man With the Twisted Lip" Holmes specifically denies using opium when Watson sees him leaving an opium den in disguise. He says something along the lines that he isn't adding this to his list of vices. I found a nifty Internet site that is useful for finding this sort of information. Can't find the note that I made with its location, but its purpose is to search words in all the Sherlock Holmes texts. So you can find cocaine, or opium, or Irene Adler, or whatever. The word "canon" is in the title of the listing, so it shouldn't be difficult to find again in Lycos. (This is a project under development, so it is useful but has a few problems.) ... Megahertz: Really painful. --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB500001 Date: 07/03/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 06:54pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: McCrumb and other cross-over writers JM> Well, here's the bookseller's dilemma. [] JM> Now what do we do with the books by McCrumb which are neither JM> mystery or SF? LOL! Now that is a quandary. So far they are more like mysteries than SF, but who knows? JM> Ideally, we'd like the fans of writer X to be able to find these JM> books and buy them if they tickle their fancy. If they don't know JM> that writer X has written in other categories, they won't go looking JM> in the other section. If we put up signs (shelf-talkers, as they JM> are called in the trade) directing readers to the other sections, we JM> will have so many shelf-talkers, they'll just become a big blur and JM> customers won't read them. JM> So what's a bookseller to do? Almost sounds like you have to go back to mixing them up, but knowing how much I hate wading through the "Fiction" section of the Hamilton catalog to find the mysteries they hide in there, that's no solution! Hmm. You don't do used books do you? You don't have a lead on any of Patricia Wentworth's romances, do you? I hear she wrote quite a few, but so far I've only been able to find one historical one. ... There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. * Q-Blue 1.0 * Helen Fleischer is helen@mbbs.com in Fairland, MD --- GEcho/2-PCB/2 * Origin: * MetroNet * Columbia, MD * (410) 720-5506 * (1:261/1137) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB500002 Date: 07/03/96 From: VLADISLAV LOMAKIN Time: 01:43pm \/To: PIERRE AMADIO (Read 4 times) Subj: Holmes 's addiction I'm very glad to see you, pierre Date: Thursday June 27 1996 Time: 13:37 Subject: "Holmes 's addiction" pierre amadio wrote to All: pa> I have read that Sherlock Holmes (hope the spelling is good) usually pa> takes drugs beetween two periods of works in order to have something pa> to do with his mind. I read it a long time ago, and i dont remember pa> where. pa> Does any of you know if he takes morphin or cocaine ? If I'm not mistaken he takes Morphin! Good Luck, pierre!!! See You Later...  We always kill the one we love  --- GoldED 2.50.Beta6+ * Origin: Long Lake Station, St.Petersburg (2:5030/320.36) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBA00000 Date: 07/03/96 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 08:49pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Laurie King's BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE Arrived in today's batch of new books: Laurie King's much-heralded novel THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE, in paperback. The novel is about a young girl (fifteenish?) who stumbles over (literally) Sherlock Holmes in a field (he's studying bees at the time), and how she comes to be his protege. I haven't read it yet, but it's in the to-read pile; everybody I know who has read it raves about it. There's also a sequel, A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN, still in hardcover. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0)