--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDK00002 Date: 09/15/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 05:12pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Birthday ... On this day, September 15, in the year-- 1891, Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon. If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the father of the mystery story, then Dame Agatha Christie has to be the mother. Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... Never wear anything in public that panics your cat. ___ 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: DDL00000 Date: 09/16/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 10:13am \/To: PATRICIA FERRARA (Read 3 times) Subj: Graves PF> We've always imagined that the deceased must have spent a PF> good PF> portion of their life hogging the bathroom. First a urinal, now a bathtub? These cemeteries are sure well-equipped! PF> So true. I've just received notification from the sysop that PF> he's picked up the crafting echoes I requested. I'll be PF> downloading those messages in my next packet. Uh-oh... They're chatty bunch... Went for a complete change of mood and picked up Maigret and the Strangled Stripper. Very low key story set in a low dive in Montmarte. ... When you don't know where you're going every road will take you there. * 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: DDL00001 Date: 09/15/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 08:21pm \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Mystery newsletters On (12 Sep 96) Debbie Shanker wrote to Maureen Goldman... DS> It was Murder on the Internet. DS> to Subscribe: DS> majordomo@www.randomhouse.com DS> subscribe MOI-dist (your internet address) Thanks much! --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDL00002 Date: 09/15/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 01:59pm \/To: JIM MAGILL (Read 3 times) Subj: Isaacs -=> Quoting Jim Magill to All <=- JM> That should be Susan Isaacs, not just Isaacs. Does she write mysteries? I know that name but for some reason I don't associate it with mysteries. Is she the one with the bestseller Lily White right now? (My memory!!! UGH) ... Breakfast is the bud of the blossom of the day. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDL00003 Date: 09/15/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 02:09pm \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 3 times) Subj: Isaacs -=> Quoting Belle Bijou to Jim Magill <=- BB> I'd like to say to , Jim Magill (1:2613/608) who said: > A recent newspaper article talked about a mystery writer name >Isaacs. i guess she's been writing for quite a while. Anyone have >comments about her work?? Thanks. >Jim BB> Susan Isaacs is not really a mystery writer, although there are BB> mysteries in some of her books. I think her best was the first - BB> COMPROMISING POSITIONS - about the murder of a philandering dentist. BB> It was also very funny. Ah! There we go! I knew I knew the name. I read that book, it was very funny. ... The pancake house was robbed. How waffle. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDL00004 Date: 09/15/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 02:10pm \/To: SUSAN BULLA (Read 3 times) Subj: Read-a-thon -=> Quoting Susan Bulla to All <=- SB> the second of the Kate Martinelli series. "The Beekeeper's SB> Apprentice" awaits. That is what my reading group is reading this month. Our gropu meets on the 26th. I can't wait to see what everyone has to say. ... WALT DISNEY didn't die, he's in suspended animation --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDM00000 Date: 09/16/96 From: JAMES MCNEILL Time: 06:45pm \/To: MYRL PARDEE (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: LIVING FOREVER MP> That error in research overshadowed most of the rest of the book for me. MP> I see that you are from Utah. Are you familiar with the detective eries MP> featuring a man whose first name is Moroni. The author is named Irvine, MP> and the location is southern Utah. I'm sorry that I can't provide more MP> information but I've been shuffling books between book-cases and cannot pu MP> my hand on them. I would be interested in a "natives" point of view on th MP> background. I only know a small part of Utah (SLC to Provo). I'm not familiar with the author or detective. I'll have to watch for it. Southern Utah is big, but I've seen a bit of it. MP> Thank you for sharing your "goof" experience. As a person unfamiliar with MP> guns, I would not have caught that really egregious error. I'll start MP> looking for those now. Myrl Pardee I don't hunt for such errors, but that one hit pretty hard. I'm not a firearms expert, but I can tell a revolver from an automatic. It's like the differance between a pickup and a Farrari. * OLX 2.2 * james.mcneill@privy.com --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Privy Ledged BBS, Kearns, Utah (801) 966-6270 (1:311/5.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDM00001 Date: 09/16/96 From: JAMES MCNEILL Time: 07:51pm \/To: DAVID CHESSLER (Read 3 times) Subj: LIVING FOREVER DC> The earliest was a .25 with the grips removed and replaced with DC> friction tape. This is an unsuitable weapon for defence. Also, DC> the chamois leather holster was unsuitable for defence. When DC> told, Fleming misconstrued the advice, and had Bond use, if I DC> recall, a Walther PPK in a Berns-Martin Holster. Berns-Martin DC> Holsters are only for revolvers. Later, I think Bond did use a DC> revolver in some books. The Barreta .25 would not be my first choice, but it's small. It wouldn't show under a jacket. In fact, I find the Walther to be too small. I wind up holding it with three fingers, including the one on the trigger. I didn't buy one for this reason, among others. Bond later used a S&W .38 and a .44 magnum also. I'm enough of a gun nut to know that Berns-Martin makes holsters, but not enough to know they only make them for revolvers. DC> > It's easy to fall into the pit if the writer isn't familiar with the DC> > subject and the reader is. If one is writing, it pays to do a little DC> > research. To get caught on a technicality is one thing, but to put DC> > cylinders on a Browning is like having your Pony car wearing shoes DC> > instead of tires. (8-} DC> No, it's a matter of forgetting whether you had a pony car or a DC> pony. For someone who doesn't know or care much about firearms, DC> it's an easy mistake to make, whether the character had a DC> revolver or an automatic, 100 pages back. (Usually the plot DC> doesn't hinge on the detail.) Thus, I think Christie did make the DC> mistake in the first of the Tommy and Tuppence novels (N or M?), DC> back at the beginning of her career, and later had Adriane Oliver DC> complain of people who notice things like that. It's hard not to notice that the hero is suddenly putting a saddle on the Mustang that he was driving just a few chapters before. If I didn't notice, then I must be asleep. Either way, they lost the reader, something no writer should do. (8-} * OLX 2.2 * james.mcneill@privy.com --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Privy Ledged BBS, Kearns, Utah (801) 966-6270 (1:311/5.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDM00002 Date: 09/16/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 10:25am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Birthday On (15 Sep 96) Fred Runk wrote to All... FR> ... On this day, September 15, in the year-- FR> 1891, Agatha Christie was born in Torquay, Devon. If Sir Arthur Conan FR> Doyle is the father of the mystery story, then Dame Agatha FR> Christie has to be the mother. There is a reason that the Edgar is not called the Conan. ... ==/==/==Police tagline==/==Do not cross ==/==/== --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDN00000 Date: 09/18/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 05:39am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: W.E.B. Griffin On 14 Sep 96 dorothy reynolds said this about that to SAM WARING: dr> The other day, a bunch of donated books came into our building dr> library. Among them were 2 Badge of Honor series. We already have a dr> few of this series, written by Griffin. However, the two in question dr> were written by John Kevin Dugan. The copyright on them were previous dr> to Griffin's. dr> In all other aspects, they bore the same covers, etc. Are these two dr> authors one and the same? I can't say; I never paid much attention to this series--IMO, they were just another ground-out series. Fairly well-written, according to some people, but not anything that I paid any mind. Maybe Jan Murphy would know something about this. dr> Now to get on topic. Have you read any of James Patterson's books? dr> I picked up one titled Kiss the Girls. Wow! Can't put it down. His dr> style is much different than any author I've ever read. Keeps his dr> chapters to about 2 and half pages, the writing snappy and keeps you dr> on the edge of your seat. I don't recognize the name. What subgenre is he writing in? I've been sampling a few recently, like the new Callahan Garrity MM by Wossername (Barbara?) Trocheck--HAPPY NEVER AFTER. A Phil Spector-like record promoter winds up dead and it looks as though he was murdered by a member of a girl group he promoted (and then dumped) long ago. I'm also reading A VINTAGE YEAR FOR DYING by ?? Orenstein. I'm finding it slower going, which generally means that the author isn't engaging my interest all that well. dr> Guess my grandson never did get into your store. He's very busy these dr> days, working and playing guitar with his band. I understand he's dr> doing well with it too. Last message I got from him, they have dr> several Gigs lined up to play in the night clubs around Austin. Probably as well; the owner and I rearranged my job description so I'm able to work the booksearches out of my house, and now I get to have my Saturdays back for the first time in twelve years! I rarely go in, unless I've got stuff to receive or need to document POs that I've issued, and often when I do go in, it's after hours. And I was some considerable amused (and pleased) when, last week, the local alternative weekly came out with their "Best of Austin" awards for 1996, and I was named as "Best Booksearch!" I think it happened because I found two or three cooking- related books in a row for one of their staff writers. However it did, it made me happy, *particularly* since most of the "Best of" awards only identify the business or place, but my award named me specifically. ... Espresso - just our little way of free-basing coffee. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/48.1)