--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCD00005 Date: 08/06/96 From: DAVE CROOKHAM Time: 04:11pm \/To: SALLY SPRINGETT (Read 3 times) Subj: Different Diagnosis SS>K. C. Constantine's Mario Balzic series. They are excellent and SS>there's a new one just this year about Mario's retirement. I hope SS>that doesn't mean there will be an end to them. We see the police SS>department through a new policeman character but Mario is still with SS>us. Thanks! I can't wait to go look for them. Dave ___ * MR/2 2.26 NR * 186,000/mps. It's not just a good idea. It's the law. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: SoundingBoard, Pittsburgh PA (1:129/26) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCE00000 Date: 08/08/96 From: DELORES E ROWE Time: 12:30am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Jonathan Kellerman -=> On 08-05-96 17:54, Patricia Ferrara said something about Jonathan Kellerman to der....... Hi Patsy..... DER> I read a REALLY good one this week...Pretty Maids All In A Row by DER> Marilyn Campbell. I couldn't put it down! PF> Thanks, it's already been added to my list. (I was PF> "eavesdropping" on your conversation with someone else.) You mean there IS such a thing in here?? der ... *I used to have a handle on life, but then it fell off! ___ 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: DCE00001 Date: 08/09/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 11:00am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Time Hi Patsy, PF> Yes, some of my time is spent here reading these messages. PF> But not THAT much time! I used to devote a ridiculous PF> amount of time to bbsing... several hours every night. PF> Now I probably devote 30 minutes a night, at the most. That sounds much more manageable. I'm down to even less than that thanks to a glitch in the sytem I call. There's no email to read any more, just FIDO. I never joined the mystery guild. I'd gotten into mysteries mostly through the library and used book stores. When I exhausted my local library's stock is when I really started hitting the used books. Then I went to a Malice Domestic and suddenlt had a long list of authors to try. That was a few years ago and I'm still reading those authors and trying ones I find out about here. I just restacked my to-read shelf so as to actually fit it all on the shelf again. I don't need to go used booking for a LONG time, now. Of course I do have this box to trade in, and there's a new shop up past my favorite yarn store that's positively hungry for stock... Part of my problem is that I have a much longer to-do list than I did when I was working full time. So I end up feeling like I accomplish less. I'm probably doing more, but it doesn't make a big dent in the list. ... Why does an iron have a Permanent Press setting? * 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: DCE00002 Date: 08/08/96 From: RUSS JERNIGAN Time: 03:48pm \/To: DELORES E ROWE (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Grimes Hi, Delores! DER>Hi Russ....how are you? Excellent, thank you. Finally got some funding for my research *and* Barb (my wife, if you don't know her from other echoes) got a raise. Going to have close to professional incomes again! DER> DER>Well, I gather she is an English authoress, so she isn't likely to run DER>out DER> DER>of titles!! :) DER> RJ> Actually, she's American. Just writes New Scotland yard mysteries. DER>Yes, that's what Fred told me. I think it would be kinda fun to do the DER>research for her books! Considering that even the smallest village DER>has at least one pub, it could be a life long project!! Yeah, I'm envious. I've wondered if that is how she got started writing -- an excuse to visit Britain every year . . . Best, RussJ * SLMR 2.1a * A light heart lives long. -Shakespeare --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.11 * Origin: Rams' Island BBS (1:104/333.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00000 Date: 08/10/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:19am \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading Great to hear from you again! The weather here has been lousy - we've had the wettest summer I can remember. And hot - whew. August is typically 90-100 with humidity just about the same. By August I tend to have finally gotten into the summer groove. Everything slows waaay down. The water in the swimming pool is about the same temperature as a bath, and it's the only month of the year when nothing that I'm allergic to is growing. I haven't read Straley - haven't even heard of him, but will check him out. I've read some terrific books this summer - the new Robert Crais (can't remember the name and I've loaned it to my daughter), two Edna Buchanans, Carolyn Wheat, the new Steve Martini (The Judge) and two terrific books by Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act and Dance for the Dead. Since you like those south Florida books, you should enjoy Buchanan if you haven't read her before. The two I just read are, Suitable for Framing and Miami, it's Murder. Have you read Steve Martini? He has a really irritating (at first) writing style - first person, PRESENT TENSE. Drove me nuts, but he really good and I soon forgot the weird style - which I'm (grudgingly forced to admit) adds a certain urgency to the book. If you haven't read him at all - they are legal thrillers - it's best (but not necessary) to read them in order. I also read a very old Edith Wharton (well, I guess they're ALL old) called, The House of Mirth, that my sister-in-law left here and just loved it. And I've been reading books about France because we are planning a trip there in October. Not the best time of year, but my sister will have a place in the south of France for a week and it's hard to turn down a free week ;) Naturally we are taking an additional week and going to Provence, then Paris for a couple of days. Hope you are still enjoying that good weather. Belle --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00001 Date: 08/10/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:44am \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Summer reading I'd like to say to , Debbie Shanker (1:2613/321.1) who said: > I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to take a poke at Reston. What I meant was >the story brings to mind all the "what ifs". "What if" that particular >strain hadn't lost it's punch and remained only contagious to animals. >"What if" another type of human strain got loose in a city? It's all the >"negative" possibilities that makes the story so frightening. > And I certainly plan to visit Reston the next time I'm down in the DC >area! Helen had sent me a newspaper article about Glen Echo and on the >other side of the page was listed local events of interest. Reston was >listed with a number of things to see and activities to check out. I know just what you mean. One of the scary things for us is that until the book came out, it was not common knowledge in Reston either! And you should definitely include Reston in your itinerary - it really is a lovely, exciting new town. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00002 Date: 08/10/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:49am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Jonathan Kellerman I'd like to say to , Patricia Ferrara (1:3828/1) who said: -=> Quoting Shelley Gingrich to Patricia Ferrara <=- SG> Devil's Waltz was very good. Have I missed a new Kellerman? What is SG> the name of his latest? > It was The Web, and I keep hearing that it wasn't anywhere > near his usual quality. I'm sure I'll read it anyway but, > having been forewarned, I won't be expecting much. It was a real disappointment. I'd skip it, and see if he's back in form the next time. --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00003 Date: 08/09/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 08:56pm \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: Preferred Authors On 6 Aug 96 Jan Murphy said this about that to Sam Waring: SW>> Jan did you just not care for Crispin, or are you having trouble SW>> finding them? AFAIK, just about everything of his is O/P (AGAIN!). JM> No, Crispin is on the 'just haven't gotten around to looking for them' JM> list. Thanks for the information -- I'll be on the lookout now. Glad to. He's one of my real favorite mystery authors, and I sure wish he hadn't taken that twenty-year vacation. Another four or five or so Fen novels would have been very welcome. JM> Speaking of stuff being out of print, this is probably a good JM> opportunity to remind people that books, at least in the US, have a JM> shorter and shorter 'shelf life' these days. I'll say "Amen" to that! When I talk to my customers, I usually quote them an in-print life of three years if it's hardback, and as you say, mass markets can disappear in 90 to 180 days. JM> Of course you know this already, Sam, but maybe others don't realize JM> that some paperbacks can go out of print in as little as 90 days, and JM> the publisher isn't always ready to reprint them when they do. Seems to me that publishers *usually* aren't ready to reprint MMs, particularly the Ace/Berkley family (Avon and Ballantine ain't much shakes, either). ... I am Toocutus of Borg! Let's be friends so you can be assimilated! --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/91.12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00004 Date: 08/10/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 11:51am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Scoppettone One of the books I picked up recently at a Barnes & Noble foray was Sandra Scoppettone's latest (I think) Lauren Laurano mystery , "I'll Be Leaving You Always." A good read and an opportunity to get to know some characters from the first of the series a bit better (neighbor, William, among others). There are also a couple of clever references to earlier Scoppetone books written under her Jack Early nom d'plume. Anyone know when the new one is due out (unless it's already released and I'm just behind - as usual!)? Sandra also works in a reference to BBSing in this book (as she has in earlier ones). I used to run across her periodically in the RIME Mystery Conference, but I haven't had RIME access is quite a while so am not sure if she's still active there. She does mention a couple of BBSes by name in her book, AARDVARK and Invention Factory (not as sure of the name of the latter). Anybody that runs into her in cyberspace, tell her hi for me! * JABBER v1.2 * Oh FINE! Confuse me even more!! --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DCF00005 Date: 08/10/96 From: IRV KOCH Time: 09:50pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Mystery Convention I'm starting a Mystery Convention in Atlanta to be SOMEWHAT modeled after Malice Domestic. (I just bought half the MYSTERY & SF BOOK SHOP LTD in Atlanta. The Mystery half needs some help. ) Among other things, I'm looking for addresses (National and Georgia/Tennessee) for Sisters In Crime. Any other suggestions, help, etc. will be appreciated. Thanks. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 703-354-4176 (1:109/629)