--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC200008 Date: 08/01/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:07am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Falco On (31 Jul 96) Fred Runk wrote to Maureen Goldman... MG> You might want to try Lindsay Davis's Marcus Didius Falco MG> mysteries, which must be read in order. The first one has a MG> title like SILVER PIGS (referring to a mold for molten silver). MG> She is VERY funny. I keep envisioning Bruce Campbell playing MG> Falco, a Roman informer - i.e., private eye. FR> I second the recommendation. Great tales. However, I envision Bruce FR> Willis as Falco. Willis is another good choice since he has certainly played characters who would contract in a major way with the aristocratc Helena. Still, though, I wonder whether he might be too old. Falco is in his late 20's at the start of the series. I'm sticking with Bruce Campbell. ... Star Trek II The Musical: The Rap of Khan. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC200009 Date: 08/01/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 11:43am \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Have you read... -=>While in the White Hart, Delores E Rowe explained to Fred Runk that<=- DER> Hi Fred....enjoying your time off? Definitely. Got some time now to do some reading and listening, without feeling guilty about "wasting" time that could be better spent. DER> Errr...ummm....the good girl won in the end? FR> Doesn't sound as though you are being excessively enthusiastic about FR> this one. DER> DER> You obviously have brilliant powers of deduction! :) You noticed!! Sometimes I even beat out the detective in the novel!! DER> Oh, Lordy! Sounds like I might have to add yet a few more titles to DER> that ever growing list! The way that list is growing, if I intend to DER> read them all before I die, I will probably have to give up BBS'ing! DER> <> What a GRUESOME thought!! Yes, Grimes now has over ten "Inspector Jury" novels out there, along with THE END OF THE PIER. There's another, SEND BYGRAVES, which is listed as poetry. Grimes "schtick" is the local pub--all of her "Jury" novels center around a local pub or tavern (US). If I'm not mistaken, many of the titles of her novels refer to the pub in that novel. FR> Poor Morse--all of his "Scotland Yard competitors" get promotions in 4 FR> or 5 novels to Supt. and Chief Supt., and here he is, in his 10th novel FR> and he's still stuck at Chief Inspt., and now there's a recommendation FR> to do away with the title of Chief Insptr. Sounds like something that would happen to Morse! Civil service--you know how that goes. DER> BTW, I just finished a couple of really good ones! The first was Bad DER> Love by Jonathan Kellerman. It is one of his Alex Delaware stories DER> and is certainly much better than his latest one. Couple of really DER> surprising twists at the end! Haven't read any of his yet--is Delaware a psychiatrist or psychologist? Was one of his novels made into a movie? I have a vague recollection of coming in at the end of a movie on TV that featured a psychiatrist involved in a series of murders. DER> The second is Web of Smoke by Erin Grady. It was EXCELLENNT. I Never heard of the work or the author. That good, huh. Maybe will check it out. DER> ... Let sleeping cats lie. Goes without saying. One of the first lessons one learns from a cat who moves in. ... Silence means never having to say you were wrong. ___ 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: DC200010 Date: 08/01/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 01:02pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Another one read.... Hi Fred... Well, I just devoured another one! Pretty Maids All In A Row by Marilyn Campbell. Another VERY GOOD read. One of those just one more chpater before I do the dishes or go to bed or breath type books! The murders were pretty graphic and you need to be standing under a cold shower for some of the sexual content, but apart from that, I really enjoyed it! My poor eyes! I have read so much over the past week, I've got double vision...literally! :( Guess I'll have to give it a rest for a day or too and strain my eyes at the computer instead! hahaha! ttys. der ... ...Tagline dropped due to budget cuts. ___ 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: DC300000 Date: 08/02/96 From: PHIL POCOCK Time: 09:48am \/To: DENNIS MENARD (Read 3 times) Subj: The Saint -=> Quoting Dennis Menard to Phil Pocock <=- DM> Hi Phil: Hi, Dennis! DM> Sorry for the long delay in replying to your last post; I've been DM> having a spot of trouble with mail during the past week or so. No problem. I've been having a spot of trouble with my hard drive during the past week or so! [g] I only finished (?) reconfiguring and getting things set up yesterday. Actually a long way from "finishing," but I do have my communications programs working again. PP> Titles would of course be welcome, but actually, all I have to do PP> is list the ones I have in the anthology, and check the local DM> Here is a list I hope will help you add to your collection ... WOW! I must have been having a pipe-dream when I was thinking I could "work backwards" from the anthology. Had no idea there were so many of them, and there were surely a lot of titles on your list that I had never even heard of. Can't begin to thank you for your efforts. Now, to find the time to go hunting! DM> Saint books written by Leslie Charteris include (there may be DM> more, but I have little interest in them): The Saint on T.V., The Saint DM> Returns, The Saint and the Fiction makers, The Saint Abroad, The DM> Saint's Choice, The Saint in Pursuit, The Saint and the People DM> Importers, Catch the Saint, The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace, Send DM> for the Saint, The Saint in Trouble, The Saint and the Templar DM> Treasure, Count on the Saint, Salvage for the Saint, The Fantastic DM> Saint. Were these all by one author? And, does the style vary considerably from that of Mr. Charteris? PP> Just out of curiosity, how large is your "user base?" Yes, the PP> Internet is having its affect on everyone. We didn't have access PP> until the first of this year, and just in seven months, we've PP> seen the traffic on FidoNet drop off to a mere ghost of itself. DM> Our current "user base" is slightly over 500; out of a population of DM> about 18,000 it's not too bad ... but numbers don't seem to be the DM> whole story as the BBS activity in general is almost comatose. The DM> Internet (hype or no) seems a formidable force to reckon with. :( I "log on" to only two local BBS', and I've seen the traffic on both of them drop drastically. I really don't understand how either of them can stay in business, but I'll continue supporting them in my meager way, just to have local access to files.... one of them is a distribution "hub" for new files. DM> Take care ... You too, Dennis, and thanks a lot for your help. << Phil from San Antonio, TX at 09:58:50 on Fri 08-02-96>> ... DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: The Rock BBS--Religion, Debate, Literature. (1:387/31) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC300001 Date: 08/02/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 12:41pm \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: FoTL HF> The hard part is figuring out how often it's worth going. PF> I decided not to be too terribly jealous because I realized, PF> even before you pointed it out, that I'd always be afraid PF> that someone was snapping up all the good authors while I was PF> stuck at work. Since our FOTL is only opened two days a PF> month, I feel that my chances are better. I can go over there PF> during my lunch break on the Friday that they're open and scan PF> whatever is new. They usually don't have many people there on Friday. Hmm. You're right of course. Maybe I should go more often. ;) HF> A Place for Murder was quite good. Had some very funny moments and a HF> good puzzle that had me saying "Of course! why didn't I think of HF> that?" at the end. PF> I love it when that happens! :) I don't really try hard to solve the mystery, usually, but I like it best when the answer feels right and didn't give itself away too soon. Finished _Death Mask_ by Ellis Peters in just two nights. I knew it would be good, but it was even better than I expected. I still have a few more unread Peters in my collection and a few more to find. I just hate running out of an author that good. ... Handspinners put their own twist on things. * 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: DC300002 Date: 08/02/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 12:41pm \/To: BERT QUILLIN (Read 3 times) Subj: Preferred Authors re: Nevil Shute BQ> A couple of very good ones to start with, both made into movies some BQ> years back, are: "A Town Like Alice", and "Pied Piper". Oh! I loved "A Town Like Alice!" Will *definitely* look for his stuff! BTW _Death Mask_ by Ellis Peters is a real "ripping yarn." ... 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: DC300003 Date: 08/01/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 10:06pm \/To: SUSAN BULLA (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading > DS> Now, whenever I see the city of Reston mentioned, I > DS> kind of get the chills. I also washed my hands a lot more after reading > those kinds of books > We recently had a monkey die-off at a research facility in south > Texas. Some died and the rest were euthanized due to the rapid > spread of infection. I think species jumping is inevitable and > this > stuff scares the bejesus out of me! Even the increase in > drug-resistant strains of known, common maladies is frightening. Was it a disease that was "catchable" to humans? Our vet swears that the common cold and viruses are not transferable between dogs and humans. But everytime our kids were sick when they were little, the dog wound up throwing up at the same time. If I had one kid sick in bed, I knew I would have a sick dog as well! He's now 14 and still going strong!! > DS> causing industrial pollution...people mysteriously dying..I'm ticking > with it > DS> but seems like quite a few other medical thrillers I've read in the > past few > DS> years. Hope something different occurs to make this a bit more > original. > Let me know. It was pretty bad..wouldn't recommend it. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC300004 Date: 08/01/96 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 10:34pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: 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, That's certainly high praise for it. Will try to visit it in the near future. We went to see the carousel at Hershey Park a few weeks ago but I find myself growing partial to the Denzel's. > 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. That's really a shame. The old, wooden horses were a true art form and have a wonderful and colorful history. Reading about the individual carvers and styles is fascinating...I've started collecting books on the subject and spend many hours riding our 90 year old Denzel here in town. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC300005 Date: 08/03/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:13am \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading I'd like to say to , Debbie Shanker (1:2613/321.1) who said: > I was totally fascinated by the Hot Zone. Started reading everything I >could on ebola...seems half the nation did as well with all the similar >type boooks and movies that followed. Now, whenever I see the city of >Reston mentioned, I kind of get the chills. I also washed my hands a lot >more after reading those kinds of books Please, please revise that image! I live in Reston - a perfectly lovely town - and you'll be glad to know that the "monkey building" (as it was called locally) was recently completely demolished. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DC300006 Date: 08/02/96 From: PATRICIA FERRARA Time: 08:02pm \/To: BERT QUILLIN (Read 3 times) Subj: A question -=> Quoting Bert Quillin to Helen Fleischer <=- HF> Speaking of romance without sex, have you ever read any Patricia HF> Wentworth? BQ> No, but will look her up on the computer and check it out. You've got me curious, so I have to ask. Look her up on the computer? Where? Is there a reference guide of some kind that's available to the public? Or even a "book review"? Patsy --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 * Origin: Orion's Sword | Bush, LA | (504) 867-9701 | V.* (1:3828/1)