--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBL00002 Date: 07/16/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 09:07am \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading > DS> I just finished Julie Smith's New Orleans Mourning. Her Skip > Sounds like one worth trying. Well, enjoy Killing Critics! I certainly did. It was a touch gorey in spots but a great read, none the less. > DS> Steve just walked by and said to be sure to tell you that he > DS> expects to see you on Sat. > As it is Saturday now, and I am home, dosed up on Motrin, his > expectations are not to be fulfilled. Sorry. Hope Bertha doesn't > soak you too much! Who invited her, anyway? Oh, Helen, you missed a good picnic! We had a great time even with Bertha being an unexpected guest. The sun finally came out in the late afternoon and we got some good pix. Steve took videos so we have incriminating evidence . I finally got to Hershey Park and rode their carousel!!! Betty rode on 4 rollar coasters and her son went on one particular one 29 times! Betty brought some mysteries to share with Suzze and me. I took Murder by prescription. Had read about this series and had been looking for them. Will start it as soon as I finish unpacking from the trip. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBL00003 Date: 07/16/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 10:04am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Daughters Of Cain On (15 Jul 96) Fred Runk wrote to Delores E Rowe... FR> I am going to start Ellis Peter's BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE, FR> the Twentieth Chronicle, and, I believe, the latest one out. I haven't read any of those in a long time. Do you happen to know the title of the one that is supposed to be about his early life, before becoming a monk? I guess that the Twentieth Chronicle will be the last. --- PPoint 1.88 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00000 Date: 07/16/96 From: MEG ANTCZAK Time: 12:33pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Kellerman > Have you read any of his wife's books? Faye Kellerman. I read her > latest, JUSTICE and liked it MUCH better than The Web. BTW, she's no > slouch in the looks department, either! :) Doncha just hate > it...talent, money AND looks!!!! Sorry for the delay in responding. I have a daycare in my home and the with the kids out of school I am very behind in everything. I have read all of Faye's books except for the last one. One of her books gave a short bio on the cover and I was quite impressed with her. She is also a musician and some type of professional--maybe a dentist?? Does anyone know for sure? * QRdr 1.11beta * --- * LAKOTA v1.5 --- SFScan v2.61 * Origin: The Lighthouse BBS (1:2613/365.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00001 Date: 07/17/96 From: MEG ANTCZAK Time: 09:54am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Cornwell Scandal Well I haven't seen anything posted in here on the recent Cornwell scandal so I thought we should get some discussion going. After all, when you read the article below you will see it has had an affect on her writing. There was a little disussion on DorothyL but it has been very polite. Probably because the authors on the lists are thinking "gee I wouldn't want my private life splashed all over the Washington Post and People magazine. From the online edition of People (see the newstand issue for photos this week): An ex-FBI agent dons a ski mask and pulls a gun on the minister of a Virginia church. He shackles the man and lures his own, estranged, wife to the church. She arrives, armed, and takes a shot at him, but he escapes unharmed. He is later charged with crimes that could land him in jail for life. A hostage, betrayal, gunfire in a house of God--all the elements of a scene from one of Patricia Cornwell's gritty, grisly crime novels. Except that this scene really happened, and what happened next makes it unlikely fodder for any future Cornwell thrillers. After the ex-FBI agent, 41-year-old Eugene Bennett, was charged by Virginia police with five felonies, a local newspaper, The Prince William Journal, obtained papers for his impending divorce hearing (only a day before they were sealed by a court). In the papers, Bennett claimed that his 12-year marriage, and his life, began unraveling in 1991 when his wife, Marguerite, 42, a fellow FBI agent, had a love affair with Patricia Cornwell. So far, Cornwell, 40, isn't commenting. She is busy promoting her recently released seventh novel, Cause of Death, which will likely top The New York Times bestseller list, and basking in her brand-new $27 million, three-book deal she reportedly signed with G.P. Putnam's Sons. Friends describe her as an intensely private woman who travels with bodyguards--to homes in Virginia, Los Angeles, the Caribbean and London, among other destinations--carries guns, and lives behind sophisticated security systems. They also say there are numerous parallels between her fiction and her life. A North Carolina native, Cornwell began learning about crime in 1979 as a police reporter for the Charlotte Observer. She had just graduated from Davidson College and was newly married to Charles Cornwell, an English professor 17 years her senior (they divorced in 1989). "She was what you call a digger," says former Charlotte police chief Mack Vines. "She was pretty much like a detective digging for information. We helped her, and she helped us." Cornwell later worked as a computer analyst in the Virginia medical examiner's office, an experience that helped her find a fictional voice in her literary alter ego Kay Scarpetta, a sharp-wittedmedical examiner who hunts serial killers for the FBI. The success of her first Scarpetta novel, 1990's Postmortem, launched Cornwell's crime-writing career. The following year, while researching her next novel, Cornwell, according to the divorce papers, met Marguerite "Margo" Bennett, an instructor in interrogation at the FBIAcademy in Quantico, Va. Margo Bennett's FBIagent husband, Eugene, was then assigned to the Washington field office. The couple--who have two young daughters--separated in 1992, the year Eugene filed for divorce. A Manassas, Va., neighbor recalls that sharing the custody of his children angered Bennett. "He would say she wasn't taking care of them the way she should,"says Maureen Wells, 35. A nanny who worked for Bennett in 1992, Meredith Duffy, 23, picked up other hints about his growing rage. "Gene kept telling me, `She's seeing some famous author,' " Duffy says. Apparently, Margo Bennett was equally bitter; in 1992 she told FBI officials that her husband had attempted to defraud the agency of more than $17,000. He served one year in prison for that offense, and for trying to block the FBI's investigation, before being released in April 1995. On June 23, Bennett called his wife's minister, the Rev. Edwin Clever, 43, and, disguising his identity, arranged a meeting at the Prince of Peace Methodist Church in Manassas on the pretense of donating food. Bennett put on a ski mask and a dark jacket, and waited in the church for Clever to arrive. "He just suddenly appeared out of the stairwell, and he had a gun,"says Clever. "My initial reaction was, `This must be a joke.' " Bennett shackled Clever's arms and legs, told him he was putting explosives around his waist and forced him to telephone Margo Bennett and lure her to the church. Suspicious, Bennett's wife showed up with a gun. After an argument about custody of the children, she fired once at her husband, who escaped to his home in Manassas. Clever was released without injury, and Bennett was arrested after a four-hour standoff at home the next day. His gym bags found at the church contained syringes, sodium chloride and ammunition--what one police officer termed a death kit. Jeffrey Gans, Bennett's criminal lawyer, has petitioned for a psychiatric evaluation, citing his client's "black-out periods" and "an alter ego named `Ed.' " In his divorce papers, Bennett said that his wife "began spending a great deal of time with Cornwell in late 1991 and in 1992. Mrs. Bennett would secretly meet with Cornwell for romantic candlelight dinners." He claimed to have "observed Mrs. Bennett and Ms. Cornwell hugging and kissing in their vehicles" and noted, pointedly, that "Mrs. Bennett has displayed a moral bankruptcy in her sexual and personal preference that can only be very harmful and confusing"to his daughters. A former associate of Cornwell's who asked not to be named says the writer confided to her that she had an affair with Margo Bennett. "It is true that it happened," says the associate. "Inever met [Margo], but Patsy talked about her all the time." Later, Cornwell wrote The Body Farm, in which Kay Scarpetta has an affair with a married male FBIagent named Benton Wesley--a romance that continues in Cause of Death. While Eugene Bennett awaits his Aug. 13 preliminary hearing in a Virginia prison, his wife, who resigned from the FBIin 1994, has temporary custody of the children. Neither is commenting on the situation. The publicity surrounding the Bennett case hasn't hurt Cornwell's standing with friends like Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who was the model for a character in The Body Farm. "For as long as I've known Patsy, there was always someone trying to take advantage of her," he says. "Regardless of whether that story is true or false, she's a worthy, good person." Hatch suspects Cornwell will weather the storm. "She's used to being beaten up," he says, "but she says that people who know her will know the truth." -- ALEXTRESNIOWSKI -- MARY ESSELMAN and CAROL SIMONS in Washington and CHRIS RAPHAEL in Manassas --- * LAKOTA v1.5 --- SFScan v2.61 * Origin: The Lighthouse BBS (1:2613/365.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00002 Date: 07/17/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 06:08pm \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading DS> > Sounds like one worth trying. Well, enjoy Killing Critics! DS> I certainly did. It was a touch gorey in spots but a great read, DS> none the less. Hmmm, I tend to avoid gore. Speaking of carousels, I clipped a guide to all the carousels within the DC area for you and Steve. Murder by Prescription, eh? Whose series is that? Current read is Maigret Goes Home. I think I've read it before under an different title, or seen it dramatized. It's really L'Affaire St. Fiacre. Oh well, I've forgotten who dunnit and I wanted a nice, calm, quick read after Shattered Moon, which was thick and suspenseful, and has to be returned to my friend Renee today. ... Will the circle be unbroken, Dr. Moebius? * 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: DBM00003 Date: 07/16/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 07:26pm \/To: STEPHANIE SHAPTER (Read 3 times) Subj: Test -=> Quoting Stephanie Shapter to Suzze Tiernan <=- SS> you enjoy reading? I just love Nelson DeMille, and I am currently SS> reading the newest book from Patricia Cornwell, FROM POTTERS FIELD. Did you see all those stories in the paper about her? She has an affair with another woman - a former FBI agent - and the lady's husband - another former FBI agent - is a bit upset and takes some reverend hostage! She has a new book that just came out too! ... I intend to live forever... so far so good. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00004 Date: 07/16/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 07:26pm \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 3 times) Subj: Scrabble -=> Quoting Belle Bijou to Suzze Tiernan <=- >(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, BB> Scrabble! I'll have to find this one. When my mother was 80 she BB> started her own bbs - Dinah's ScrabbleMania - devoted almost totally BB> to Scrabble. She allowed only the most competitive players. When she BB> died, I 'inherited' the bbs and have run it for the past 2 1/2 years. BB> I once toyed with the idea of writing a mystery with Scrabble as a BB> theme, but thought that it was wildly improbable that anyone would get BB> killed over a Scrabble game. Now I know better. I've had players so BB> fiercely competitive that they's probably kill their own mothers for a BB> high score. I have noticed your origin line many times, as I am a BIG Scrabble fan. I play online daily and hate to lose!! The book was very good too. ... He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00005 Date: 07/17/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 11:33am \/To: RUSS JERNIGAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Laurie King's BEEKEEPER'S -=> Quoting Russ Jernigan to Jan Murphy <=- RJ> I tend to be leary of "raved about" books -- however, _The Beekeeper's RJ> Apprentice_ is *well* worth the read. _A Monstrous Regiment of Women_ RJ> isn't nearly as good but still worth the paperback price (when it RJ> comes out, that is). Happens to be what I am reading right now. Plan to finish the last 80 or so pages today. LOVE it! ... I knew that! --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBM00006 Date: 07/17/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 03:47pm \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Daughters Of Cain -=> While in the White Hart, Maureen Goldman insisted to Fred Runk that <=- MG> On (15 Jul 96) Fred Runk wrote to Delores E Rowe... FR> I am going to start Ellis Peter's BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE, FR> the Twentieth Chronicle, and, I believe, the latest one out. MG> I haven't read any of those in a long time. Do you happen to MG> know the title of the one that is supposed to be about his early MG> life, before becoming a monk? That might be A RARE BENEDICTINE: THE ADVENT OF BROTHER CADFAEL. It contains three short tales, one of which, "A Light on the Road to Woodstock," is about Cadfael before he became a Benedictine. I haven't read all of them, so there might be another. MG> I guess that the Twentieth Chronicle will be the last. Why do you say that? Aside from being a nice round number to end a series. Internet address: Fred.Runk@MBHBBS.PLAYCOM.COM ... A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. ___ 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: DBM00007 Date: 07/17/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 03:47pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Daughters Of Cain -=> While in the White Hart, Delores E Rowe insisted to Fred Runk that <=- DER> As I recall, one of them even became the murder victim, and Morse DER> was the one that found her, and even came under suspicion himself! Was that the one that was supposed to be a suicide? DER> Would be fun to watch them butt heads all the time...they are both DER> somewhat pig-headed! Nah, just determined and persistent. Only one's enemies and other unpleasant people are pig-headed. Internet address: Fred.Runk@MBHBBS.PLAYCOM.COM ... One must look away to see the familiar clearly. ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2)