--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1L00006 Date: 01/16/97 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 12:34am \/To: SUZANNE WILLIAMSON (Read 3 times) Subj: Kevin Robinson -=> Quoting Suzanne Williamson to Suzze Tiernan <=- SW> So glad Dorothy asked you about Kevin. I was wondering why I hadn't SW> received the newletter either. Guess we should all email him. Has he SW> mentioned whether his column is in other newspapers yet. We still SW> don't have it, even though I've tried to get our local paper to carry SW> it. He has never mentioned it to me either. I know a lot of people here that read it faithfully. ... Drink your coffee! There are poor people in India sleeping! --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1L00007 Date: 01/16/97 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 12:43am \/To: JAN MURPHY (Read 3 times) Subj: new MYSTERY! retrospective -=> Quoting Jan Murphy to all <=- JM> We've just received a new book from KQED Books, the publishing arm of JM> San Francisco's public TV station. It's a retrospective of Public JM> TV's series _MYSTERY!_, entitled _MYSTERY! A Celebration: Stalking JM> Public Television's Greatest Sleuths_, by Ron Miller. It sounds super Jan. Thanks for passing it on, I'm going to order a couple for the store tomorrow! ... The tagline's here, the message is over. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1L00008 Date: 01/16/97 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 12:44am \/To: DOROTHY REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Janet Evanovich -=> Quoting dorothy reynolds to ** ALL ** <=- dr> Howdy everyone; dr> Have any of you out there read One For the Money by Janet Evanovich? dr> If you like funny, witty detectives, her protagonist, Stephanie dr> Plum is it. dr> this is JE's first book in the genre and I'm hoping she'll write dr> another featuring Stephanie. It takes place in Trenton, N.J. She has!!! Two for the Dough is even FUNNIER! Her Grandma is a main character in it and is a SCREAM! And her newest (drats, can't remember the name it's THREE something-or-another) is due out any day!!! dr> Whatcha all reading out there? All this bad weather makes for good dr> reason to curl up in front of the fire and read. Too cold to go out dr> and play and there's sure not a heck of a lot on T.V. ... Modern birth control: Have lunch at a Chuck E. Cheese's. --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1L00009 Date: 01/16/97 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 12:52am \/To: SUZANNE WILLIAMSON (Read 3 times) Subj: Janet Evanovich -=> Quoting Suzanne Williamson to Dorothy Reynolds <=- SW> Reminded me of another funny mystery I really liked: Bank Robbers by SW> C.Clark Criscuolo. Read that one too. As I remember Kevin Robinson recommended it in here! It was very very funny. I often recommend it to customers. ... Why do my checks always seem to wipe out my balances? --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1N00000 Date: 01/17/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:12pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 5 times) Subj: Sherlock Holmes NO. 3 -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=- Thanks for the information. Is that out in pb yet, or still hb? Did you read the second one? What did you think of it? ... Guns don't help people; people help people. ___ 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: E1N00001 Date: 01/17/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 08:14pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Books -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=- ST> We have a reading group at our store. For January 23rd we are reading ST> "Death in Bloodhound Red". FR> Who wronte this one? ST> Virginia Lanier, won one of the awrads for Best First Novel for it. ST> (The Agatha I think) Haven't read anything by her yet. What do you think of her? ... Dave's Rule: If it happened only once, it never happened. ___ 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: E1N00002 Date: 01/18/97 From: DOROTHY REYNOLDS Time: 08:03am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Janet Evanovich -=> Quoting Fn:suzze Tiernan@1:2410/2 to Bears <=- -=> Quoting dorothy reynolds to ** ALL ** <=- FT> She has!!! Two for the Dough is even FUNNIER! Her Grandma is a main FT> character in it and is a SCREAM! And her newest (drats, can't remember FT> the name it's THREE something-or-another) is due out any day!!! Wonderful! Don't you just love her grandma? What a character! I'm looking forward to reading the book. It's funny that I was thinking at the time I was reading One For the Money, what a great book she could write around Grandma. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Thanks a mil, Suzze for telling me about it. FT> ... Modern birth control: Have lunch at a Chuck E. Cheese's. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Love the tagline! FT> -!- Blue Wave/DOS v2.21 FT> ! Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) ___ 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: E1P00000 Date: 01/19/97 From: DEBBIE SHANKER Time: 01:40pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 3 times) Subj: Books > -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=- > ST> We have a reading group at our store. For January 23rd we are reading > ST> "Death in Bloodhound Red". > FR> Who wronte this one? > ST> Virginia Lanier, won one of the awrads for Best First Novel for it. > ST> (The Agatha I think) > Haven't read anything by her yet. What do you think of her? I thought "Death in Bloodhound Red" was wonderful. It's almost a series of murders and adventures, all rolled into one book. It has a number of characters in it, all of whom reappear in her sequel, "House on Bloodhound Lane". I thought the first one was a tad bit better than the second, but both were excellent stories. Just finished Aaron Elkins'newest, "20 Blue Devils". I've loved his Gideon Oliver series for years, but his last two haven't been as good as the first few in the series. In this new one, murder takes place on a Tahitian coffee plantation. The description of the islands is wonderful and as an coffee lover, the info on coffee growing was an added benefit. Unfortunately, Gideon's vast knowledge of forensics and pathology was only slightly touched on. That was a let down since it was originally set out to be a forensics type series and gave vast pieces of information previously on the understanding of human bones. <<< Debbie >>> --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE: Roch, NY (1:2613/321.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1P00001 Date: 01/15/97 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 09:29am \/To: POLLY FITT-JONES (Read 3 times) Subj: More books! -=> Quoting Polly Fitt-Jones to Robert White <=- Hello Polly, PF> Burley writes almost contemporay novels. I always get the feeling PF> that I am back in the late 40's or maybe 50's when I read his books. Sounds kind of like the setting of the Insp. Felse series that Ellis Peters also wrote, you may want to try one of those. Another of my favorite British mystery series is by Simon Brett. Actually he writes at least two seperate series. The one I like best has Charles Paris, a chronically unemployed and alchoholic actor, as the main character. The other has Mrs. Pargater (spelling?) as the protagonist, she is a lady of undetermined age and a slightly shady background. Both books have an bundance of wry humor, but I particularly like Paris' stumbling, bumbling manner; as e usually quite literally stumbles over bodies. I'm currently reading 'A Reconstructed Corpse', an early Charles Paris novel that I somehow have previously missed. As with most series, it is best to ead them in order, but you really miss very little if you read them at random. PF> Some one on this BBS mentioned "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" which PF> sounds like Sherlock Holmes....Conan Doyle introduced me to the I really like 'Beekeeper', which added a new dimension to the Sherlockian story. Some didn't like the idea of using THE DETECTIVE as a sringboard for a series, but it worked for me. I have the second in that series, 'A Monstrous Regime of Women' currently in my TBR queue. On this side of the pond, my favorite series is currently the Sharon McCone series by Marcia Muller. McCone is a pretty tough PI, and Muller writes stories that hook me from the start and carry through to the end. My avorite title of that series is 'Till The Butchers Cut Him Down.' I'm also partial to mysteries set in South Florida, but I'll leave those to another msg. TTYL, Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/Max v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: E1R00000 Date: 01/20/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 07:32pm \/To: DEBBIE SHANKER (Read 3 times) Subj: Books -=>While in the White Hart, Debbie Shanker explained to Fred Runk that<=- re Virginia Lanier DS> I thought "Death in Bloodhound Red" was wonderful. It's almost a DS> series of murders and adventures, all rolled into one book. It has a DS> number of characters in it, all of whom reappear in her DS> sequel, "House on Bloodhound Lane". I thought the first one DS> was a tad bit better than the second, but both were DS> excellent stories. Is it a novel or a collection of short stories? The second book in a series frequently is weaker than the first--SBS or Second Book Syndrome. DS> Just finished Aaron Elkins'newest, "20 Blue Devils". I've loved his DS> Gideon Oliver series for years, but his last two haven't been as DS> good as the first few in the series. In this new one, DS> murder takes place on a Tahitian coffee plantation. The Did that make it to TV for a couple of seasons? It sounds familiar. In the TV series, I think he was black? DS> description of the islands is wonderful and as an coffee DS> lover, the info on coffee growing was an added benefit. Ah yes, the blessed bean! DS> Unfortunately, Gideon's vast knowledge of forensics and DS> pathology was only slightly touched on. That was a let down DS> since it was originally set out to be a forensics type DS> series and gave vast pieces of information previously on DS> the understanding of human bones. Yes, that's always a disappointment. I've also read novels in which the Detective only appears near the end of the book--I bought the book because I enjoyed the character, so I feel cheated when this happens. ... Discoveries are made by not following instructions. ___ X Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 X --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: Fred's Place (1:300/6.2)