--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBT00008 Date: 07/23/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 04:22pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Daughters Of Cain -=> On 07-21-96 09:38, Fred Runk said something about Daughters Of Cain to der....... DER> I believe they were in a choir together, and I think it was first DER> considered to be suicide. FR> Yeah, think that was the one. Set up to look as though she hung FR> herself. yup.! That's the one! DER> Would be fun to watch them butt heads all the time...they are both DER> somewhat pig-headed! FR> Nah, just determined and persistent. Is that the p.c. way of saying it? FR> Nope, self and friends are determined or persistent. Enemies and FR> other unpleasant types are pig-headed. That's a nice way of putting it! DER> ... When in doubt, cop an attitude. Cat philosophy. FR> How does one tell the difference? I guess it depends on how badly they want you to do something for them! I just finished reading Acts & Omissions by Nancy Kopp. Legal drama with murder thrown in for good measure. I guess it was OK for a first novel. However, I get a little irked when an author feels compelled to tell me what every character is wearing, in every scene, down to the color of their socks, and the material that everything is made from!! On a scale of 1 to 10, I guess I would give it a 3+. Just starting Assumed Identity by David Morrel. der ... Therapy is good...but screaming obsceneties is cheaper. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- 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: DBY00000 Date: 07/27/96 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 09:48pm \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Preferred Authors > I don't say I've read them all, because I have one still > set aside on my > to-read shelf. Somehow I hate the idea that when I've read > it, there > are no more. That is unless I find those two very elusive > early ones. > The first one I read was Mr. Jelly's Business, when a librarian > recommended Upfield to me. Golly, that has to be over 12 > years ago! I agree -- I took a hiatus from reading Upfield a while ago because I didn't want to charge through all the Bony books and then have no more to read. And I'm facing the same situation now with Ellis Peters' non-Brother Cadfael mysteries. I have almost read all the Felse mysteries and pretty soon there won't be any more. Ditto the non-Felse books. Where do you go when you've run out of Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey *and* Ellis Peters' modern mysteries? (Back to Peter Lovesey, I guess, but what do I do when I've run out of *his* books as well?) --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBY00001 Date: 07/28/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 08:06am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Scrabble On (25 Jul 96) Suzze Tiernan wrote to Maureen Goldman... MG> Mostly I read in bed, and my eyes have been killing me (just MG> hooked up to Internet six weeks ago, an "unlimited time" MG> account. Oy!). ST> I'm addicted to the Internet myself. Sometimes spend 4-5 hours a day ST> on there!! Same here, and I'm pretty sure that this sort of thing will soon be impacting on TV ratings, if it hasn't already. (Considering the slowness of transmission, though, I spend a fair amount of that time doing other stuff while things are loading.) MG> I've been reading John Wyndham's "The Chrysalids", but that's MG> science fiction. ST> I think I'm going to read a non-mystery myself next. Need a break... The Chrysalids was very impressive, an entire post-atomic tiny community created. (Speaking of which, Patricia C. Wrede, a fantasy writer, has a website on fantasy world creation.) I am back now with an M.C. Beaton book "Death of a Charming Man". She has done a marvelous job of changing over from Regencies. That isn't to belittle her Regencies, but I had begun to feel that she was getting tired of doing them after some 150-200 books. ... You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish. -- REO Speedwagon --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBY00002 Date: 07/27/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 03:29pm \/To: SUSAN BULLA (Read 3 times) Subj: Cause of death -=> Quoting Susan Bulla to Suzze Tiernan <=- ST> DS> but thought it had a "soap opera ending". We have to get Suzze and ST> DS> Betty to read it and have a discussion about it. ST> ST> I can read it anytime - as soon as I drive the 45 minutes to my SIL's SB> house. ST> She and her husband finished it and said I could have it. SB> Sure. Rub it in! Ok.... I am reading a book called "Final Jeopardy" by Diane Feirstein (I am SURE that last name is wrong - too lazy to go look at the book). It is her first novel, about a prosecutor in the sex crimes unit in NY. (What the author herself is). ... _'M ST_P_D Pat, I'd like to buy an 'O' please. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBY00003 Date: 07/27/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 03:30pm \/To: SUSAN BULLA (Read 3 times) Subj: Private library -=> Quoting Susan Bulla to Suzze Tiernan <=- ST> There are a few that were so good, that I want to hold on to them. (Most ST> recently The Alienist) SB> I especially enjoyed this one, too, but it runs against character for SB> me. I usually don't care for historical fiction. I don't read many historical novels but I love every one I read. I don't know why I don't pick up more. The history part fascinates me. ... I started out with nothing & still have most of it left. --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBY00004 Date: 07/27/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 03:31pm \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Private Library -=> Quoting HELEN FLEISCHER to Suzze Tiernan <=- ST> The few that I have read were very good. I like her "other series ST> (brain dead can't think of the name) better than the Maggody one. HF> I think you mean the Claire Malloy series. Then of course there are HF> the two Theo Bloomer books under her maiden name, Joan Hadley. Yeah? I didn't know that. Does she still write that series or are their only the 2? ... Veni, Vidi, Velcro. (I came, I saw, I stuck around.) --- * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DBY00005 Date: 07/24/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 08:50am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading I guess that's why I like Aaron Elkins so much. His stuff has lots of that scientific aspect with none of the gore. I don't know that it's the gore, though, so much as the scenes of malevolent suspense and torture that really affected me in the Cornwell book. School science was never as interesting to me as it should have been. I remember devouring Scientific American in the 7th grade, then falling asleep in science class. PF> So, have you read any of Stout's/Goldsborough's Nero Wolfe PF> series? There's much more of a focus on character study PF> and lots less on the murder itself. Is that what you PF> prefer? Yes indeed; to both questions. ... I'm a material girl. Wanna see my fabric collection? * 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: DBY00006 Date: 07/24/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 05:56pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Joan Hess -=> Quoting Suzze Tiernan to DOROTHY REYNOLDS <=- DR> I've never read Joan Hess. Don't think we have any here in DR> the building. Will have to go to the public library. I've heard DR> her books are very good. ST> The few that I have read were very good. I like her "other series ST> (brain dead can't think of the name) better than the Maggody one. The "other one" is the Claire Malloy series, and I agree. I think it's better than her Maggody series, though I wouldn't pass up a chance to read those either. I like them both. As I recall, you were one of the ones who recommended her books to me. Thanks once again! Patsy --- 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: DBY00007 Date: 07/24/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 06:19pm \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Cornwell -=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to Patricia Ferrara <=- PF> exception, not the rule. Out of almost twenty people PF> that I personally know who have read her books, I've PF> heard that reaction from one person. You make it two. MG> Now you have three. I read the first Cornwell book, thought it MG> was well-written. I figured that I might pick up another MG> because the work details were interesting and detailed, but MG> every time I passed them in the library ... well, I didn't. MG> These victims died a horrible death, and Cornwell went out of MG> her way to emphasize the sadistic methods. The least of it was MG> the surgeon-violinist who had her fingers broken before her MG> attacker got to the really nasty stuff. There's no denying that the victims often die horrible deaths. To me, that doesn't seem to be the focus of the books, though. The emphasis is on the tremendous scientific effort behind stopping the sadistic criminal. That aspect fascinates me and somehow it also gives me peace of mind where Mary Higgins Clark's books tend to leave me feeling frightened. Maybe it's because in books like MHC's, too much depends on luck? I don't know... Patsy --- 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: DBY00008 Date: 07/24/96 From: BERT QUILLIN Time: 07:06am \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Preferred Authors -=> Helen Fleischer recently remarked to Debbie Shanker <=- HF> Patricia Cornwell: you're welcome to her. I read the first one and HF> hated it so much that even though I'd already bought the second one I HF> gave them both away without reading the second. Well, this statement proves something. My wife and I are not the only ones that don't care for Patricia Cornwell. Have sort of held back on my opinion regarding this author as it is uncomfortable to be a majority of one. Now I don't have to be concerned about that anymore. If you are interested in someone who writes a bit out of the ordinary, but will hold your attention without any problem, try Arthur Upfield. He is an old timer, much in the vein of Nevil Shute, although, possibly a bit more interesting. His "White Savage" would be a good one to start with. Regards, Bert ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: COM-DAT BBS (1:105/314.0)