--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB^00000 Date: 07/30/96 From: DAVE CROOKHAM Time: 09:45am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Different Diagnosis -=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to Susan Bulla <=- PF> Getting back on topic, I just started a Dell Shannon mystery PF> titled Murder Most Strange. I'm having a little trouble PF> keeping the characters straight, and while that's nothing new PF> for me, I think I may have to start the book over and take PF> notes. Would you be familiar with the author? I wonder if PF> it's worth that much trouble. I've always found the Dell Shannon books to be enjoyable reading. Good police procedurals with well developed main charaters. One good thing if you like them: she's written so many of them that they'll keep you busy for a few years. It helps to read them in somewhat chronological order though, as the main detectives always stay the same, and past experiences are sometimes brought up. The author also has written a bunch of mysteries under her own name (Elizabeth Peters I think, but may be thinking of the wrong person). I also have a question for all out there. I remember reading a couple of mysteries a while ago that were set in the Pittsburgh area. They were also the police procedural type with a main charater police chief named Mario. Anybody know what the author's name is? I'd like to look up more books in the series, but have just outright forgotten the guy's name. Dave ___ * MR/2 2.26 NR * To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB^00001 Date: 07/30/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 09:04am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Private Library 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. ST> Yeah? I didn't know that. Does she still write that series or are ST> their only the 2? Only the two: _Night Blooming Cereus_ and _The Deadly Ackee_. I asked her about them once at Malice Domestic, but she said the publisher wasn't interested in continuing the series. I think I bought a spare copy of one of them recently. It was too good a deal to pass up. If I can remember where I put it, I'll send it along to you. ... I'm just an old spinner, plying my trade. * 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: DB^00002 Date: 07/30/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 11:07am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: FoTL Go ahead and be jealous. Our FOTL shop is even open on Sundays! ;) And most of the time all mysteries are $.50 each, even hardcover. The hard part is figuring out how often it's worth going. The Convivial Codfish is a good one, but not at all rare. Cirak's Daughter isn't part of any series and may never have been out in paperback at all. Isn't it fun when the "splurge" book is ony $1? When I look at the price of new books these days, I want to scream. HF> And I found some other treasures like Andrew Garve there. HF> Currently nearing the end of A Place For Murder by Emma Lathen. I'm HF> playing catch up on that series and I've grown quite fond of it. PF> More authors I've never heard of. Oh how the list grows! A Place for Murder was quite good. Had some very funny moments and a good puzzle that had me saying "Of course! why didn't I think of that?" at the end. ... "Look at the weaver, looming in the corner!" * 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: DB^00003 Date: 07/29/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 07:50pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Private Library -=> Quoting Fn:suzze Tiernan@1:2410/2 to Bears <=- -=> Quoting DOROTHY REYNOLDS to PATRICIA FERRARA <=- DR> I always supply my sister with books too. Every time she comes DR> to visit, her first words are usually, "Got any books for me?" FT> That's exactly how I feel. Most books I just tell people to pass them FT> on. There are a few that were so good, that I want to hold on to them. FT> (Most recently The Alienist) Well, here's another one to add to my list...Right now am into my third James Lee Burke-Heaven's Prisoners. Love his writing. Have Ed Mcbain's Downtown waiting in the wings. He's a good writer too. Does wonderfully well with police procedurals. My sysop is updating my system to a new bulletin board and I'm getting an upgraded computer. Still not top of the line, but it's good enough for my needs. This one will use both large and small floppies, which is a plus. My current one only takes large. Most of the new stuff is on the smaller ones so this will be an advantage. 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. FT> The few that I have read were very good. I like her "other series FT> (brain dead can't think of the name) better than the Maggody one. Well Suzze, it's good to see you back again. Guess you got your message problems straightened out eh? I've been working hard editing my novel, and am very pleased with the results, so far. Do about two chapters a day. And of course, am thinking up stuff for short articles. Bits and pieces here and there. BTW, do you hear from Kevin? If so, give him my regards. TTYL Dorothy FT> ... For Reply, send a self-abused stomped Antelope to... FT> -!- FT> ! Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- DBSMail V2.00g [F633BFFC] * Origin: tnl-online.com -=- san diego, ca -=- (1:202/711.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB^00004 Date: 07/29/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 07:50pm \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Mystery writer -=> Quoting Fn:robert White@1:134/40. to Bears <=- -=> Quoting DOROTHY REYNOLDS to FRED RUNK <=- FW> Hello Dorothy, FW> Just a thought about where you may want to try submitting some of your FW> writing. If you are active on the Internet, you can check out 'The FW> Case', a FW> weekly short mystery site. They send out a mystery in E-mail to a FW> mailing list FW> every Wed. They are usually about 2 pages long and there is a prize FW> draw for correct solutions. They are usually looking for new writers so FW> if you have ideas for a very short story mystery or if you just want to FW> join in reading and solving them the URL is: www.thecase.com FW> I don't know if they pay anything or if it's just a way to get FW> exposure and feedback. Hello Robert: Thanks for the info. I am in the internet but unfortunately don't have a Web Page. Don't do windows (Grin). I have a visual problem and all those little thingies across the top of Windows are almost impossible for me to read. I do know some publishers are now accepting things in E-Mail. In fact, sent a Life in These United States to Reader's Digest via E-Mail. Thought it would be faster but so far haven't heard from them. If I don't hear soon, will submit it again snail mail. As for ideas for a short mystery, I do have one brewing in my head, based on a true happening to my great grandfather. He disappeared from the face of the earth and none of the family ever found out what happened to him. The sheriff of the town thinks he was robbed and murdered. My story will be fiction of course, and the mystery will be solved. Just have to put it together. Nice to hear from you again. Been awhile huh? Dorothy ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- DBSMail V2.00g [F633BFFC] * Origin: tnl-online.com -=- san diego, ca -=- (1:202/711.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DB^00005 Date: 07/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 12:32pm \/To: STEVEN HORN (Read 3 times) Subj: Ellis Peters -=>While in the White Hart, Steven Horn explained to Fred Runk that<=- SH> Fred, I have a paperback copy of the 20th chronicle published in SH> Canada in 1995 but it makes no reference to Ellis Peters' death. I SH> had hoped she would have been able to carry through the SH> history until Henry II's ascension to the throne in 1154 SH> but I suppose we will have to live with its end. Ah, my copy reads first paperback printing, Feb. 1996, which I presume means first in US. My knowledge of English history is not that good, so I hadn't known about the civil war between Stephen and Maud. I even went to the encyclopedia when I first began reading the series to make sure this was real, and not a fictional conflict. I then deliberately avoided reading more about the conflict and its resolution, so I could get some idea of how it felt to be in the midst of the war and not know the resolution. As you say, though, there will be no more, so I pulled out my ency. and did a little reading to see how it did end. It looks as though there was plenty of material there for Peters. I would have enjoyed meeting Henry II and seeing him through Brother Cadfael's eyes. I wonder about Eustace though. Is much known about him? ... Kat Fu: The martial art of cat bathing. ___ 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: DB^00006 Date: 07/30/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 12:49pm \/To: STEVEN HORN (Read 3 times) Subj: Messaging and authors -=>While in the White Hart, Steven Horn explained to Fred Runk that<=- FR> I think she may have attended a science fiction conference on the FR> East Coast prior to writing BIMBOS OF THE DEATH STAR, or whatever FR> the title was. SH> I've never even seen a reference to that title. My favourite McCrumb SH> still remains the first one I read, She Walks These Hills, and I SH> still haven't found a copy of The Hangman's Beautiful SH> Daughter.:-( I think she won an award for "Bimbos..." or perhaps one immediately afterwards. If you are interested, I'll ask around the SF conference. She's quite well known there also. FR> Now, how can one forget Inspector Morse? Such a kindly, gentle, FR> sweet soul! SH> Morse kind and sweet? Some would say he's a lecherous old goat.:-) True, but... In any case, he's becoming "a kindlier, gentler, sweet soul" in the TV versions. ... A whale in shallow water amuses the shrimp. Old Chinese Proverb ___ 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: DC100000 Date: 07/30/96 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 08:45am \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Preferred Authors [running out of an author's work] > JM> And I'm facing the same situation now with Ellis Peters' > non-Brother > JM> Cadfael mysteries. I have almost read all the Felse > mysteries and > JM> pretty soon there won't be any more. Ditto the non-Felse > books. > > Ooh. That's a problem. I haven't managed to get hold of > all her > non-Cadfael. I think I'm still missing a Felse or two, and > some of the > Edith Pargeter historicals. I have most of the non-Brother C books now, thanks to a friend who makes regular trips to England and usually brings back a dozen books for me each time. I think there was just *one* of the mysteries he couldn't find on this trip. It's hard to tell because we were cobbling together a list from info here (your list, I believe it was, and if so, I thank you again), the library computer, and the books listed in the front of all the other books we had in hand. I haven't even started collecting the Pargeter historicals -- we decided to leave those for the next expedition. > I think I have to admit I ran out of Marsh long ago. I > keep hoping I missed one somehow, but that's a false hope. There's a collected stories volume (edited by Douglas Greene, if my memory is correct). I just stumbled on the listing on one of the recent microfiches and it seems to have a different title now, but I suspect the contents are the same. My edition is titled 'The Collected Stories of Ngaio Marsh' but the new edition takes the title from the essay about Alleyn. So there's one I found (actually my husband spotted it for me) after I thought I had run ut. > Ran out of Tey for sure, > not to mention Crispin and Allingham. For some reason, I still haven't gotten into Crispin and Allingham. Tried Allingham after the Peter D. adaptations on MYSTERY (nice to see him getting to do something besides Doctor Who and Tristan), but it didn't click. > There's > always Ray Harrison, of course, and there are still a few > Wentworths > left to find, maybe an Innes or two, and Hazel Holt is still > writing. Any recommendations? I still haven't tried Wentworth, and am only vaguely aware of the others. --- 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: DC100001 Date: 07/30/96 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 09:03am \/To: STEVEN HORN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Messaging and authors > I've never even seen a reference to that title. My favourite > McCrumb still remains the first one I read, She Walks These > Hills, and I still haven't found a copy of The Hangman's > Beautiful Daughter.:-( The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is in print in the US, and we have it in stock at the bookstore where I work. If you can send us payment in US dollars, we can ship it to you in Canada. Send netmail to me here or e-mail to ochobbit@dnai.com for details, if you want to use us as your 'last resort'. I know sometimes it's more fun to keep looking for it yourself -- excitement of the chase, and all that. --- 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: DC100002 Date: 07/30/96 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 09:06am \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Summer reading > Helen, > > Thanks a bunch for the article on the Denzel carousel at > Glen Echo Park. > Would love to see that > carousel..it's quite similar to the one we have here in > Roch. I learn something new about them in every news clipping > that I read. Second the recommendation for the Dentzel carousel at Glen Echo Park -- it is marvellous. I was in DC on a trip and took the bus all the way out to the end of the line to see it, and stumbled on to the folk festival they hold out there every year. There are also a lot of carousel animals scattered around the Smithsonian's Museum of American History on the Mall, but when I was there, they were mostly being used for decorative purposes -- there was no information on age, maker, or probable source. Shabby treatment if you ask me -- I hope that they've fixed that in the last few years. --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0)