--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDW00008 Date: 09/28/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:31pm \/To: REBEKAH DICKERSON (Read 4 times) Subj: Good Author -=>While in the White Hart, Rebekah Dickerson explained to Fred Runk that<=- FR>Don't think I remember that one...Is it a Lord Peter mystery? RD> Yes.It's pretty good so far.I'm having a little trouble keeping the RD> names straight,mainly because there not really common names,but I RD> still like the book. Briefly, what's the plot? I don't recognize the title, and I thought that I had seen or read all of the Lord Peter novels. Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... Cry fewmet...And turn loose the honey wagons of war. ___ 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: DDW00009 Date: 09/28/96 From: FRED RUNK Time: 07:21pm \/To: SAM WARING (Read 4 times) Subj: Good Author -=>While in the White Hart, Sam Waring explained to Fred Runk that<=- SW> It is; about number five. Elderly woman murdered because of a SW> quirk in the new Wills Act 1925, having to do with really distant SW> heirs being excluded from inheritance. Hmm, glad to hear that. I thought I had heard or seen all of them, but this is a new one. Something to add to my list! Marvelous--a new Lord Peter mystery! ... Barkis is willin'. -C. Dickens- ___ 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: DDW00010 Date: 09/27/96 From: SHARON SKELLY Time: 11:58pm \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 4 times) Subj: QUESTION > >defined by Mystery Writers of America's SE Chapter: BB> > James Lee Burke. BB>He'd be my choice too, but I think he actually lives in Montana now. I was of the understanding that he has homes in both places. Lucky guy. * QMPro 1.53 * If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: CanCom TBBS - Canton, OH (1:157/629) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDW00011 Date: 09/29/96 From: IRV KOCH Time: 02:48pm \/To: DAVID CHESSLER (Read 4 times) Subj: LIVING FOREVER DC> down there don't wear cammies. He has them wear what are DC> apparently old US "Fatigue" uniforms. He calls the color of these DC> uniforms "khaki." DC> "Khaki," from the Hindi word for dust, refers to a light tan, DC> sometimes called beige or suntan (or in the old Army, "pink"). He DC> meant the dark, somewhat brownish green called "Olive Drab," so DC> that the old fatigue uniforms were called ODs. Clancy is DC> supposedly known for his meticulous research in military affairs, DC> and this was in the paperback, not the first edition. So much for DC> the erudition of his readers, too. There's another error in the DC> book involving the use of Gatoraide in water purified with Clancy was calling them what 99.99% of the troops called them. I was one, tho not Special anything. ONLY the official designation in some manuals called them by their correct color. Score one for Clancy. DC> Iodine, but I've checked, and apparently the military isn't DC> taught about the problem and its solution. He was dead right on the first one. Maybe he used "common troop knowledge" on the second one too. What's in the manuals and what's really done are often different. Also, Special Forces have their own "unwritten knowledge." DC> I just read a mystery by Susan Isaacs. In this one, the husband DC> IBM's sales force. In other words, the chronology is clearly DC> wrong. DC> I suspect that nearly every book I read has some errors of this DC> nature. I probably spot them in one book in five, and usually DC> just write a note in the margin and move on. Sometimes they are DC> errors of continuity, such as the author forgetting the weapon DC> a character is using. More often it's something that suggests I In MOST cases, I agree with you, but sometimes it's either a matter of whose "facts" you take. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:109/629) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDX00000 Date: 09/27/96 From: DENNIS MENARD Time: 06:20am \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 4 times) Subj: Re: Birthday -[ Quoting Maureen Goldman <09-25-96 09:04>, to Dennis Menard ]- DM> Having just finished "The Moonstone" in time for holidays, the DM> publishing date is 1868. MG> Did you enjoy it? I did! It's one of those stories where the primary focus seems to be on character development, with a mystery running through it. In fact, if you try to read it "strictly" as a mystery novel, you may be a little disap- pointed ... it's quite a stretch into the book before one realizes there's a mystery at all. However, you have to read right to the end before the mystery is resolved; I found it very satisfying. Enough so, that, upon my return from holiday, I intend to find his "The Woman in White" and sink my molars into that, as well. :) -< Dennis >- ... Better to light one candle than curse the darkness. -=- Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- SLMAIL v4.5a (#0185) * Origin: * Pacific Salt BBS * Whitehorse, YT * Canada * (1:3409/3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDX00001 Date: 09/30/96 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 06:34am \/To: IRV KOCH (Read 5 times) Subj: Re: Question -=> Quoting Fn:irv Koch@1:109/629.0 to Bears <=- -=> Quoting Fn:irv Koch@1:109/629.0 to All <=- FK> Who, in your opinions, is/are the best mystery writer who lives in FK> the SE (as defined by Mystery Writers of America's SE Chapter: FK> TN, GA, NC, SC, MS, AL, LA, and maybe Arkansas ... I forget the exact FK> boundries but know that FL, VA, and KY aren't in it. FK> Oops. LA ...ouiana is not in the MWA SE Chapter after all. It's in FK> SW along with TX. Arkansaw is. FL is not. Sorry to all the Burke FK> fans. Someone want to try again. FK> His being in Montana would not have been good either. After I sent this message, saw that Burke is in Montana. Think he must have lived in Louisiana at one time however. Too bad. I can't begin to think of another mystery writer in these states that can compare to him. Oh well, I tried. DR !- Maximus 2.02 FK> ! Origin: Ice Fire 703-354-4176 (1:109/629) ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- DBSMail V2.00g [F633BFFC] * Origin: tnl-online.com -=- san diego, ca -=- (1:202/711) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDX00002 Date: 10/01/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:14am \/To: SHARON SKELLY (Read 5 times) Subj: QUESTION I'd like to say to , Sharon Skelly (1:157/629) who said: > >defined by Mystery Writers of America's SE Chapter: BB> > James Lee Burke. BB>He'd be my choice too, but I think he actually lives in Montana now. > I was of the understanding that he has homes in both places. > Lucky guy. Oh, that would be heavenly! --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DDX00003 Date: 10/01/96 From: DAVID CHESSLER Time: 02:17am \/To: IRV KOCH (Read 5 times) Subj: LIVING FOREVER On 29 Sep 96, 02:48pm, Irv Koch wrote to David Chessler on the subject of "LIVING FOREVER": DC>> "Khaki," from the Hindi word for dust, refers to a light tan, DC>> sometimes called beige or suntan (or in the old Army, "pink"). He DC>> meant the dark, somewhat brownish green called "Olive Drab," so DC>> that the old fatigue uniforms were called ODs. Clancy is > Clancy was calling them what 99.99% of the troops called them. I was > one, tho not Special anything. ONLY the official designation in some > manuals called them by their correct color. Score one for Clancy. Oh? Could be, of course, but I thought the term OD was in general use in the 70s and 80s. Indeed, at least as long ago as the 50s, the song was: I wouldn't trade my old ODs For all the Navy dungarees, Just want to be a dogface soldier like I am. DC>> I suspect that nearly every book I read has some errors of this DC>> nature. I probably spot them in one book in five, and usually DC>> just write a note in the margin and move on. Sometimes they are DC>> errors of continuity, such as the author forgetting the weapon DC>> a character is using. More often it's something that suggests I > In MOST cases, I agree with you, but sometimes it's either a matter of > whose "facts" you take. Yes. Remember Neuromancer? When Gibson wrote that he didn't know what a modem was. There's some episode that is pretty silly for that reason. And Neuromancer is considered a classic of its genre. > * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:109/629) Haven't moved yet? -- ___ __ david.chessler@mix.cpcug.org david.chessler@neteast.com d_)--/d chessler@capaccess.org chessler@trinitydc.edu ... E-mail: ->132 1:109/1111 david.chessler@mix.cpcug.org * Evaluation copy of Silver Xpress. Day # 1 * Silver Xpress V4.3 --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.23 * Origin: << Crystal Aerie >> (703) 415-0134 (1:109/1111) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DE200000 Date: 10/01/96 From: REBEKAH DICKERSON Time: 09:30am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 4 times) Subj: Good Author FR>Briefly,what's the plot?....... An old lady,with cancer,dies.Her doctor told her she had about 6 more months to live,but she just kills over one day.There's no apparent cause other than the cancer,which at the time had not posed an immediate threat of death.Lord Peter thinks it's a murder and starts to investigate.Her only heir is a niece who had been living with her,and upon her death inherets all her money and possesions.I don't really want to ruin the ending,in case you find you have'nt read it yet,but that's the basic story line. Hope this helps to jog you're memory.I'm not really good at brief summarys,so I hope this was'nt too long. Bec --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0450 * Origin: THE FAMILY SMORGASBOARD Pleasant Grove, Alabama (1:3602/77) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DE200001 Date: 10/01/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 01:02pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 4 times) Subj: Patterson -=> Quoting dorothy reynolds to SUZZE TIERNAN <=- FT> They are very popular. A friend gave me his first three books and they FT> sit in the TBR pile. His newest "Jack and Jill" was just released. dr> Helloooo Suzzie: dr> Good to hear from you. As you probably know by now, my modem dr> bit the dust so was down for awhile. Yes, I had heard. Glad to see you back!!! ... Detroit is always knowing where your purse is. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278)