--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFJ00045 Date: 11/10/96 From: IRV KOCH Time: 10:27pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Please... ST> We discuss Mystery books. Simple. What, no magazines? Drood Review, etc. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:362/629) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFJ00046 Date: 11/10/96 From: BERT QUILLIN Time: 03:13pm \/To: SUSAN BULLA (Read 5 times) Subj: Hello again -=> Quoting Susan Bulla to Matt Mitchell <=- SB> I'm reading "Silver Pigs" by Lindsay Davis. The protagonist is a SB> public informer in ancient Rome. It's a fairly painless way to learn SB> some history! Certainly is. I have read all of Davis's Faldo books and wish she would write another. If possible Susan, read them in order of publication as they sort of flow in a series style and are more interesting that way. Regards, Bert --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: COM-DAT BBS (1:105/314.0) FR> Great series. I've read 3 or 4 of them--everything but the most recent one. FR> Great fun and yes, a relatively painless way to learn some history. I've moved on from "Silver Pigs" to "Shadows in Bronze." FR> The historical mysteries are becoming quite popular in the past decade or so. FR> The "Brother Cadfael" series is a great favorite of mine--unfortunately, Ellis FR> Peters died recently--she will be missed. I've not read any of these but will do so as soon as I can lay hands on one at the local used book store. FR> I also enjoy the Anne Perry FR> "Inspector Monk" Victorian mysteries--perhaps it should be "Private FR> Investigator Monk" now. I think I read one of these and wasn't interested enough to hunt up another one. FR> The Judge Dee mysteries are also interesting--although I'm uncertain as to FR> their authorship. I'm not sure whether they were all written by Van Gulik in FR> the 20th century, or were Chinese tales which he translated, or are a FR> combination of the two--some he translated and some he wrote himself. I'd like to try this series, too. * JABBER v1.2 * If stupidity is its own punishment, some of us are doing life. --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFJ00047 Date: 11/11/96 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 06:52am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 5 times) Subj: Hello again FR> Great series. I've read 3 or 4 of them--everything but the most recent one. FR> Great fun and yes, a relatively painless way to learn some history. I've moved on from "Silver Pigs" to "Shadows in Bronze." FR> The historical mysteries are becoming quite popular in the past decade or so. FR> The "Brother Cadfael" series is a great favorite of mine--unfortunately, Ellis FR> Peters died recently--she will be missed. I've not read any of these but will do so as soon as I can lay hands on one at the local used book store. FR> I also enjoy the Anne Perry FR> "Inspector Monk" Victorian mysteries--perhaps it should be "Private FR> Investigator Monk" now. I think I read one of these and wasn't interested enough to hunt up another one. FR> The Judge Dee mysteries are also interesting--although I'm uncertain as to FR> their authorship. I'm not sure whether they were all written by Van Gulik in FR> the 20th century, or were Chinese tales which he translated, or are a FR> combination of the two--some he translated and some he wrote himself. I'd like to try this series, too. * JABBER v1.2 * If stupidity is its own punishment, some of us are doing life. --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * DataBoard BBS * Crowley, TX * (817)297-6222 * (1:130/916) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFJ00048 Date: 11/11/96 From: BELLE BIJOU Time: 12:31am \/To: LINDA LEVIN (Read 5 times) Subj: QUESTION I'd like to say to , LINDA LEVIN (1:130/318) who said: >Hi Belle! Hi Linda! 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!!! So, who are some of your favorite authors? Have you read anything good lately? >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 My mother started this board (and called herself Dinah) when she was 80 years old. She had a blast with it - met so many nice people. When she got sick they were tremendously supportive. When she died several of them came to the funeral. She "willed" the board to me -in every sense of the word! - and I've continued it ever since. Still have some of her original players ;) --- msged 2.05 * Origin: 1:109/253 Dinah's Scrabblemania (1:109/253) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFJ00049 Date: 11/12/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 08:01pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Books On 05 Nov 96 Suzze Tiernan said this about that to Sam Waring: SW>> Well, I've gone all retro and picked up Frances and Richard SW>> Lockridge's DEAD AS A DINOSAUR, from 1952. A book-club copy came into SW>> the bookstore, and while I was brodarting the remnants of the dust SW>> jacket, I read the blurb and it sounded interesting enough that I SW>> thought to give it a try. SW>> Letcha know what I thought of it once I'm done. ST> Please do. It didn't send me any great thrill; I thought the ending had a bit too much French bedroom farce and not nearly enough suspense to it. Although I finished the book, it was more out of a sense of duty than anything else. I wouldn't recommend it, much. ST> You work/own a used book store? I convinced the owner of our store to ST> let us start doing some used books as an experiment. I work at one; I'm the Oldest Living Employee (12 years as a part- timer). We used to be trade books and newsstand only; about two years ago we started doing some used stock as well. I was having a fine time a couple of months ago when I tried going out to buy stock at weekend garage sales for about a month; paying twenty-five or fifty cents for a hardback, instead of two dollars, makes it a lot easier to price relatively low and still make a reasonable amount on the book. However, the manager told me to stop because she thought we were getting overbought, so I had to quit having that kind of fun. B-{(### I'm waiting to see what happens through the holidays and whether we can unload some of the excess, and maybe I can start buying in some of the categories that turn well (like fiction, biography and cookbooks) by spring. Meantime, I'm Brodarting djs like crazy, since it seems that a Brodart cover on a beat-up dj makes a book much more likely to sell--the whole book doesn't look so tatty any more, you see. I've had a number of times where a sound copy with a battered dj sat on the shelf for months, but after I brodart the dj, hey presto! The book sells in a week or two. I figure it's a pretty cheap way to improve turnover. ... Cheops' Law: Nothing *ever* gets built on schedule or within budget. --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/48.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFK00000 Date: 11/13/96 From: SAM WARING Time: 09:22pm \/To: HELEN FLEISCHER (Read 5 times) Subj: Books On 13 Nov 96 Helen Fleischer said this about that to Sam Waring: SW>> Meantime, I'm Brodarting djs like crazy, HF> Never heard that term before, Sam. Can you explain the technique? To cover the dust jacket with a fold-over mylar cover. Brodart is one manufacturer of these jackets, and in the trade it's kinda coming to be a generic term, both as a noun and verb. I'll occasionally see quotes where the dealer notes "All djs brodarted," and I know that he's trying to preserve the condition of the dj by covering it--whatever that condition may be, from mint all the way down to bits and pieces. Brodart covers are just folded on and can be removed by unfolding it and taking the dj out, so it's a completely reversible technique. The only problem I have is that some of the older ones had a kraft-paper backing rather than a white- paper backing, and the acid in the kraft paper is browning the endpapers and the jackets. I'm having to replace all of that kind in my own collection. ... Exceptions rule OK! --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: Shallow end of the gene pool (1:382/48.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFK00001 Date: 11/14/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:01am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 5 times) Subj: Hello again On (13 Nov 96) Fred Runk wrote to Susan Bulla... FR> I've a slight problem though with the PBS MYSTERY FR> dramatizations of them though. My picture of Brother Cadfael FR> differs radically from Derek Jacoby Same here. I picture Cadfael as more like Brian Blessed. The books describe him as built like a barrel. Incidentally, the Moderator of HISTORY said that the depiction was at least a century off. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFK00002 Date: 11/13/96 From: KAREN BOUDREAU Time: 8:15 am \/To: MATT MITCHELL (Read 5 times) Subj: Please... MM}Hi Karen, Hiya, MM} Noticed that you're from Nova Scotia. I was wondering, do you really }get a thirteen foot tide up there? At Peggy's Cove we do. We've had quite a few tourists and locals alike swept off the rocks down there because they underestimate the power and the "ghost" waves. They come out of nowhere and I figure have the same kind of impact as a train. And before ya know it, you're being tossed around the Atlantic. We were swimming at Fox Point Beach (not too far from Peggy's Cove) and were facing towards shore, not understanding why the people on the beach were pointing and screaming, etc. Well, I turned around and all I saw was GREEN. I got hit by a sneaky wave and got pulled under and banged against the bottom, rocks, etc, and finally (thank god) got thrown up on the beach. NOT something I'm likely to forget any time soon! I guess there's not too many beaches where you are, huh? ;) /\/\ ( 00 ) Karen --- SLMR 2.1a Philosophical issue: is Windows a virus or a Trojan? --- AdeptXBBS v1.08a26 (VC) (Registered) * Origin: TSST/2 | Halifax, NS, Canada | 902-422-1904/2264 (1:251/12) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFK00003 Date: 11/13/96 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:24am \/To: BRENDA MORGAN (Read 5 times) Subj: New reads On (11 Nov 96) BRENDA MORGAN wrote to DOROTHY REYNOLDS... BM> Hi, Dorothy. I see you have good taste in books. I'm a mystery writer BM> myself. My books haven't reached the States yet, but they're doing ok BM> in the Persian Gulf. What language are you published in? ... Confusion not only reigns, it pours. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: DFK00004 Date: 11/13/96 From: IRV KOCH Time: 05:42pm \/To: SAM WARING (Read 5 times) Subj: Books SW> cents for a hardback, SW> instead of two dollars, makes it a lot easier to price relatively low and SW> still make a reasonable amount on the book. However, the manager told me SW> to stop because she thought we were getting overbought, so I had to quit You can't. They breed. A large percent is unsalable. (Been messing with Book Stores since 1981. Now own half of one that does new SF & Mystery & related only. I'm thinking about setting up a Used store in the empty store front almost next to us.) You will also, if you deal with it long enough, discover another peculiarity of Used Books. The stores which charge the highest prices drive out those who charge the least. It's totally counter-intuitive but there's a math type reason for it. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:362/629)