--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF200001 Date: 10/31/96 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 01:12pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Books Not much in this echo recently! What is everyone reading? I'm reading King's "Desperation". A real page-turner. I just finished Valerie Wolzien's "Elected to Death", I love her Susan Henshaw mysteries. Our store has 3 authors coming in for signings in November; Jeff Abbott, Nancy Atherton, and David J. Walker. CAN'T WAIT! ... I started out with nothing & still have most of it left. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF300000 Date: 11/02/96 From: HELEN FLEISCHER Time: 10:59am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Books ST> Not much in this echo recently! What is everyone reading? I'm ST> reading King's "Desperation". A real page-turner. I just finished ST> Valerie Wolzien's "Elected to Death", I love her Susan Henshaw ST> mysteries. Our store has 3 authors coming in for signings in ST> November; Jeff Abbott, Nancy Atherton, and David J. Walker. CAN'T ST> WAIT! I'm reading Jonathan Gash's The California Game after finishing Rex Stout's Fer de Lance. Fer de Lance is notable mostly for being the source of the quote, "Go to Hell, I'm reading." Archie says it when he's really p.o'ed at Wolfe at one point. Other than that Wolfe drinks an amazing amount of beer, despite prohibition and the only legal beer available being near beer. At one point he sends Fritz to buy all the brands of near beer available so he can try them out and find one that's passable enough for him to give up the inconvenient bootleg stuff. He does. He also talks about cutting down to 5 quarts a day, yet he never seems to have to get up to pee. Not that anyone ever has to pee in a classic mystery, but, honestly! According to my lists, Fer de Lance was the first Nero Wolfe story. It surely was not the best, but passable. Took about twice as long to read as most books of that length, no real suspense or interesting twists, and the ending was a bit unsatisfying. Your mileage may vary. ... I'm a material girl. Wanna see my fabric collection? * Q-Blue 1.0 * Helen Fleischer is helen@mbbs.com in Fairland, MD --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * MetroNet * Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1:261/1137) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF300001 Date: 11/02/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 09:00am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 5 times) Subj: New reads DR> Helllo everyone: The mystery conference is getting short on messages again and DR> I haven't been adding my two cents worth either. Likewise guilty. Just finished Cornwell's latest "Cause of Death"? which I enjoyed more than her more recent ones (Body Farm, From Potter's Field). Am in the middle of Davis' "Silver Pigs" which I'm enjoying. Also recently read Westlake's "Good Behavior" which I enjoyed. * JABBER v1.2 * If ignorance is bliss, why are you so CRANKY, Sunshine? --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF300002 Date: 11/03/96 From: SOUTHERN STAR Time: 12:27am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Expiration Warning Hello. The Zone 1 Backbone only carries echoes listed in the Zone 1 EchoList. It seems that the listing for this echo will expire this month. Thus, it is necessary for the moderator to update it's listing if it is to remain on the Zone 1 Backbone. For more information please consult these files: BOFAQxxx.TXT and ELISTxxx.ZIP, where "xxx" is the version number. They are available from most hubs or can be requested from 1:1/200, 1:1/201, 1:283/120 or 1:396/1. If you need assistance, please contact Marge Robbins, 1:283/120. Regards, Zone 1 Backbone Operations --- Harvey's Robot v6.00 * Origin: Southern Star - sstar.com - V.34+/ISDN - 504-885-5928 - (1:396/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400000 Date: 11/03/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 02:12pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Books On 31 Oct 96 Suzze Tiernan said this about that to All: ST> Not much in this echo recently! What is everyone reading? Well, I've gone all retro and picked up Frances and Richard Lockridge's DEAD AS A DINOSAUR, from 1952. A book-club copy came into the bookstore, and while I was brodarting the remnants of the dust jacket, I read the blurb and it sounded interesting enough that I thought to give it a try. The Lockridges use a husband-and-wife detective team, Jerry and Pam North. Jerry's an editor for a New York publisher, and far's I can make out, Pam is a sort of Nora Charles type--at least, I don't see her engaged in any outside-the-home employment. I dunno yet whether I'm gonna care for the story, in which a paleozoologist (say that three times fast) winds up with an overdose of phenobarb in his evening glass of warm milk. Right now, the Norths are swanning around the relatives while expressing vague "something-isn't-right-here" noises to themselves, and using as a cover story that the Prof died owing Jerry a manuscript for his next book, and Jerry is trying to work out whether a ghost can finish up the book, or if it's publishable as is, or if it's a write-off, so to speak. Letcha know what I thought of it once I'm done. ... When life gets weird, the weird get a life. --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/48.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400001 Date: 10/28/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 04:18pm \/To: SHARON SKELLY (Read 5 times) Subj: Hiaasen -=> Quoting Sharon Skelly to All <=- SS> Just finished Carl Hiaasen's _Stormy Weather_ & laughed a lot SS> as usual. The man is a total wacko. What really cracked me up was SS> his rather bizarre alternative use for "the Club". His mind works His mind is certainly bizarre; but then again, so is South Florida. That may be the connection. I read 'Stormy Weather' while on holidays, getting the ain from hurricane Josephine dumped on me - I thought that especially ppropriate! I love the book and especially the use for "the club". Can't wait for his next one. I also have been working my way through Buchanan's Miami miss-adventures. Britt Montero is a great character and the books are so tightly written, real page turners. Speaking of page-turners, I finally got around to reading Patricia Cornwell's 'From Potter's Field' and was glad to see that see has gotten back in the groove after a few so-so books. I found the suspence great and it kept me involved right to the end. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400002 Date: 10/28/96 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 05:45pm \/To: LEE KIRBY (Read 5 times) Subj: Please... -=> Quoting Lee Kirby to All <=- LK> ...forgive this intrusion, I'm trying to find out if this echo is LK> linked all the way. Please holler if you receive this. =) You made it to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400003 Date: 11/02/96 From: IRV KOCH Time: 02:55pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Books ST> Not much in this echo recently! What is everyone reading? I'm reading ST> King's "Desperation". A real page-turner. I just finished Valerie ST> Wolzien's "Elected to Death", I love her Susan Henshaw mysteries. Our ST> store has 3 authors coming in for signings in November; Jeff Abbott, ST> Nancy Atherton, and David J. Walker. CAN'T WAIT! Signings are great fun. We (SF & MYSTERY BOOK SHOP LTD, Atlanta), in Nov, have Toni Kelner (Country Comes To Town) and a half dozen sf&f types. The next Mystery author, after that, is Teri Holbrook, Dec 14 (Grass Widow). I think we're going to have a party with her and the local Sisters In Crime, MWA, and such like. I just finished Karen Kijewski's HONKYTONK KAT, about country music stars and death among them, etc. That there are two "country" books is pure coincidence. I read this one for the "Kat." --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:362/629) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400004 Date: 11/03/96 From: LINDA LEVIN Time: 12:22am \/To: BELLE BIJOU (Read 5 times) Subj: QUESTION Hi Belle! BB>--- msged 2.05 BB> * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) I saw this and fainted!! :> I am new on this echo and have d/l one bunch of messages just to see what the echo was like. I keep seeing all my favorite authors mentioned and though g's this seem like home, saw where your origin line and KNEW I was definitely home!!! I would love to put up a Scrabble board, and only wish you were here in Fort Worth! :> It is SOOOOOO hard to find boards with large or good scrabble area, guess I'll just have to move..heheheh Anyway, Hi Belle how are you? :> Linda * SLMR 2.1a * A miser is hard to live with, but makes a fine ancestor. --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Suzie's Room BBS Arl, Tx. 817-465-2761 (1:130/318) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DF400005 Date: 11/03/96 From: LINDA LEVIN Time: 12:25am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: new, but home! Hi everyone! I have just found this echo and I am so glad I did!! I am a mystery nut and have been reading the mail and see that I have finally found a home. If ya'll (can you tell I am from TX) :> will have me? Are there any special rules I need to know about? Look forward to chatting soon, Linda * SLMR 2.1a * Help! I've fallen and.. I kind of like it down here --- Platinum Xpress/Wildcat! v1.2N * Origin: Suzie's Room BBS Arl, Tx. 817-465-2761 (1:130/318)