--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1D00000 Date: 01/08/97 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 10:13am \/To: MAUREEN GOLDMAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Robert Barnard -=> Quoting Maureen Goldman to Robert White <=- MG> DEAD, MR. MOZART (not sure about the comma) Noted and added to my BOLO listing which is spilling onto and overwhealming it's 3rd page. Discouragingly few books crossed off. Not because I haven't been reading, just don't seem to find or get sidetracked with other finds. MG> I'm looking at a mystery set in New Amsterdam, by Maan Meyers. MG> Seems to be the third or fourth in a series, though, and I'm New Amsterdam, as in New York of the early 1700's? Should be a unique etting for a mystery. Also added to the ever expanding rarely shrinking list. :) Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1D00001 Date: 01/08/97 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 10:17am \/To: SAM WARING (Read 3 times) Subj: Robert Barnard -=> Quoting Sam Waring to Robert White <=- SW> I just discovered him; now I gotta work through the backlist. I SW> liked THE BAD SAMARITAN no end, but somehow didn't warm up as much to SW> THE CHERRY BLOSSOM MURDER. P'raps it was because the murderer winds SW> up getting away with it.... Yeah, I guess I can agree with your point there. I think my favorite of Barnards is 'Death of a Perfect Mother'; that may not be the exact title, but close. 'Bad Samaritan' is pretty good as well. My current favorite is the Sharon McCone series by Marcia Muller. The female detective has a lot of V.I. Warshawski and solid dash Kinsey Milhone in her character. As Ms. McCone describes herself '...frequently secretive, occasionally violent, and sometimes emotionally stingy.' A good hard-boiled female dick. Speaking of which, in these politically correct times, where have the likes f Travis McGee, Philip Marlowe, and Lew Archer gone. All the male detective - the few you can find - are all understanding and supportive and Alan Alda clones. G'luck find the rest of the RB's. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1E00000 Date: 01/08/97 From: POLLY FITT-JONES Time: 10:08pm \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: BURLEY, J.W. Hello Robert White from Canada..... Thanks for the answer....yes, I am new here...I saw the word Mystery and had to stop and see what it was all about! I don't think I have read any Robert Barnard mysteries...but noted the name down for my library trip tomorrow. I do love black humor! I have just finished all the books our library system has for Burley and am suffering withdrawal symptoms. I love the Cadfael mysterys on PBS but the actual novels don't do it for me. I don't know why. Burley writes almost contemporay novels. I always get the feeling that I am back in the late 40's or maybe 50's when I read his books. Perhaps because the little towns he writes about are still back in the 40/50s themselves. Or maybe he is just an "old guy" writing about what he knows best. He writes a lot of description of the sea, the weather, the countyside, old houses, old bookstores...etc. Some one on this BBS mentioned "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" which sounds like Sherlock Holmes....Conan Doyle introduced me to the detective story and they have turned out to be a great passion for me. I have a son who lives with me and he will come in and look at me all curled up in my favorite chair with the cat in my lap and he will laugh and say...."Here is a sweet little old lady sitting in a rocking chair with her cat in her lap...completely engrossed in a horrible, bloody mystery story!" Well, there is just no accounting, is there! Nice to hear from you...Regards...Polly --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Awakening - Lakewood WA (206)582-5579 HST16/V32b/VFC/V34 (1:138/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1E00001 Date: 01/08/97 From: POLLY FITT-JONES Time: 09:38pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Mysteries Hi Dorothy.... You live in San Diego! I lived 25 years in Long Beach! When the kids all left home I moved up north so I could begin to breathe real air again. I worked at the Reno V.A. Hospital for about 2 years and am familiar with Sparks and Carson City. I never got used to the dry climate so transfered to Portland, Ore V.A. Hospital for another year or so...then to the Tacoma American Lake V.A. Hospital and finally to Madigan Army Hospital at Fort Lewis. Then, I realized that working was cutting into my reading time so I quit and moved up here so I could read all night if I wanted to and not have to worry about getting up in the morning. I find that it has all worked out very well and I often wonder why I didn't think of it sooner! I have recently been reading some...what I would call historical mysteries. "Foot Prints of the Gods" and "The Mystery of the Sphinx". Also "The Orion Mystery". They are trying to justify redating the pyramids and other artifacts to about 12,500 years older than now thought. Does anyone ever read Sherlock Holmes any more? That was one of my gre test adventures. It happened years ago in a October. I sat at the kitchen table and read and read every one of his stories. The house went to pieces, the kids ran wild....I didn't cook, wash cloths or the dishes...didn't answer the phone. I thought how could I have lived for so many years and never read any Sherlock Holmes. When I had read all the stories I went into a kind of shocked withdrawal.....then found that many books were written about the Sherlock Holmes stories, that there were people who considered themselves "Sherlockian " scholars, that there were Holmesian groups who met once a year on Sherlock Holmes's birthday and celebrated royally. It was quite an adventure! I must be off...Regards....Polly --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Awakening - Lakewood WA (206)582-5579 HST16/V32b/VFC/V34 (1:138/102) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1E00002 Date: 01/10/97 From: IRV KOCH Time: 02:10am \/To: POLLY FITT-JONES (Read 3 times) Subj: Mysteries PF> PF> Does anyone ever read Sherlock Holmes any more? That PF> was one of my gre test adventures. It happened PF> years ago in a Yes. People also write new ones. PF> stories, that there were people who considered PF> themselves "Sherlockian " scholars, that there were PF> Holmesian groups who met once a year on Sherlock PF> Holmes's birthday and celebrated royally. It was quite There are still local groups such as Red Circle of The Baker Street Irregulars in Washington,DC metro, and The Confederates Of Wisteria Lodge (meets every other month, more or less) in Atlanta. I'm going to my first Confederates meeting this coming Sunday. --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Ice Fire 423-267-3789 (1:362/629) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1F00000 Date: 01/10/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 05:02pm \/To: POLLY FITT-JONES (Read 3 times) Subj: Beekeeper's Apprentice -=>While in the White Hart, Polly Fitt-jones explained to Robert White at<=- PF> Some one on this BBS mentioned "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" which PF> sounds like Sherlock Holmes....Conan Doyle introduced me to the It is. I just finished reading it. The apprentice is a 19 year old Mary Russell who stumbles across Holmes one day while she is roaming the fields of Sussex Downs. Laurie R. King has a second in that series out now--A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN. Finished: Laurie R. King, THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE CR: Wilkie Collins, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, 2/564 Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... Better to believe too much than to believe nothing at all. ___ 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: E1F00001 Date: 01/10/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 05:03pm \/To: POLLY FITT-JONES (Read 3 times) Subj: Mysteries -=>While in the White Hart, Polly Fitt-jones asked<=- PF> Does anyone ever read Sherlock Holmes any more? That was PF> one of my gre test adventures. It happened years ago in a PF> October. I sat at the kitchen table and read and read every one of PF> his stories. The house went to pieces, the kids ran wild....I Yes, I do, and I'm fairly certain I'm not the only one. I have the one volume Complete Adventures, so I just settle down every few years and work my way through it. I also enjoy the TV Sherlock on PBS Mystery. Finished: Laurie R. King, THE BEEKEEPER'S APPRENTICE CR: Wilkie Collins, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, 2/564 Email: fred.runk@mbhbbs.playcom.com ... By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends. ___ 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: E1F00002 Date: 01/10/97 From: MAUREEN GOLDMAN Time: 09:40am \/To: ROBERT WHITE (Read 3 times) Subj: Robert Barnard On (08 Jan 97) Robert White wrote to Maureen Goldman... MG> I'm looking at a mystery set in New Amsterdam, by Maan Meyers. MG> Seems to be the third or fourth in a series, though, and I'm RW> New Amsterdam, as in New York of the early 1700's? Should be a unique RW> setting for a mystery. Also added to the ever expanding rarely RW> shrinking list. :) I guess that it should be more properly something like Nieuw Ansterdam. Yep, that's the one. I stopped reading the book after a couple of chapters because I'd prefer to start a series with the first book. Unfortunately, this is the only one we have. I may try InterLibrary loan. --- PPoint 2.00 * Origin: Point of No Deposit, No Return (1:153/404.11) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1H00000 Date: 01/11/97 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 09:33am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Beekeeper's apprentice FR> It is. I just finished reading it. The apprentice is a 19 year old Mary FR> Russell who stumbles across Holmes one day while she is roaming the fields of FR> Sussex Downs. I also enjoyed this one and I generally prefer contemporary mysteries. FR> Laurie R. King has a second in that series out now--A MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF FR> WOMEN. Have you read this one, Fred. I believe I recall some comments in this conference about people being disappointed in this one. King also has two or three out with a San Francisco police officer (Kate Martinelli) as the main character. I enjoy this series. * JABBER v1.2 * Genealogical Lotto: #####<- Scratch here to reveal an ancestor. --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: * The Oasis BBS * Weatherford, TX * (817) 613-9002 * (1:130/716) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1H00001 Date: 01/10/97 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 02:50pm \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: The Poet -=> Quoting dorothy reynolds to SUZZE TIERNAN <=- dr> Hi Suzze; Long time no write to you. What a coincidence you should dr> post your reading of The Poet. I started on it day before yesterday dr> and am so intrigued, have to make myself put it down in order to do dr> "the things I should be doing, but would rather not." Was going to dr> report on it when I finished it. By now I'm sure you're done. What did you think? A lot of people found the final plot teist to be a bit unreal, but I just went with the flow and thought it was fine. dr> I am looking forward to reading the rest of Connelly's books. If dr> they are all as good as this one. It's one of those books you won't dr> forget for a very long time. Thanks for mentioning it here. They are ALL great. I love Harry Bosch. We should be receiving "Trunk Music" in our shipment today. dr> How's everything with you? Hope you're staying warm. Do you ever dr> hear from Kevin Robinson anymore? Is he still writing his column? dr> Has he come out with another book? If you get in touch with him, dr> give him my regards. He's still writing his column every other week. Excellent as always. No more books, in fact in his last column he mentioned being an "unemployed author". I haven't received a newsletter from the Hephaistos Foundation either. I'll have to write him e-mail. Why don't you write him and say HI? It's kevinr@clubmet.metrobbs.com We finally got some snow here. There's about 5" out there, and very cold and windy. I think I'll stay in on my day off and read. I'm reading 3 books, one a novel by Louise Erdrich, one a historical by Louis L'Amour, and the mystery "Writers of the Purple Sage" by Barbara Burnett Smith. Nice seeing you! Sometimes I swear my mail to the Mystery echo never makes it. ... If I can't EAT fried foods what CAN I do with them? --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278)