--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300010 Date: 10/31/97 From: FRED RUNK Time: 07:38pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 1 times) Subj: Golden Agers -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=- -=> Quoting Fred Runk to Steven Horn <=- FR> He's a good choice. I'm not certain whom I would consider my favorite FR> Golden Ager. I would probably include several, including Hammett, FR> Sayers, Marsh. ST> I recently read "Strong Poison", the first Sayer I had read and LOVED ST> it! I definitely plan on reading more. I don't remember that one at all. Is it a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery? FINISHED: Anne Perry. CAIN HIS BROTHER FINISHED: JG Ballard. HELLO AMERICA CR: Gredgory Benford. JUPITER PROJECT, 12/184 CR: Robert Phillips, ed. TRIUMPH OF THE NIGHT, 227/366, ghost story coll. CR: Jack Finney. TIME AND AGAIN, 280/398 Email: fredr@gci-net.com ... Water floats a ship...Water sinks a ship. Old Chinese Proverb ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DPSystem:4285 OS2-WARPED 520-290-8418 USR V.e+ (1:300/105) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300011 Date: 10/31/97 From: STEVEN HORN Time: 11:45pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 1 times) Subj: Pot pourri Fred Runk (1:300/105) wrote to Steven Horn at 23:06 on 30 Oct 1997: FR> Bayers is an American writer who has a series going that features a FR> NYPD cop named Janek, played admirably by Richard Crenna. Several FR> of them have been televised in the past few years. As mini series? I don't recall seeing spot ads for any episode. FR> Right--the author should provide clues that this sort of thing can FR> take place--as it is, it appears as though she included that solely FR> to lead readers astray and didn't give a clue that this was a FR> possibility until the last page or so. I've always thought that Anne thinks she is above the world. FR> Hey, what you mean--no character development? Hester and William FR> got a kiss in there a volume or two ago! Do we know where they live and where their relatives live? At least I know what music Inspector Morse likes. Take care, Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.yk.ca) Moderator CAN_SYSLAW --- timEd/386 1.10+ * Origin: Yukon Mail, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada (1:3409/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300012 Date: 10/30/97 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 02:50pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 1 times) Subj: Dis & Dat -=> Quoting Fred Runk to Robert White <=- FR> Yeah, Thaw does a superb job, although the writing recently has FR> weakened, about the time when the shows stopped being based on FR> Dexter's novels and started being based on "characters created by Colin FR> Dexter." I missed the latest episode (apparently a new one) on PBS. We had people drop in for a visit and I felt it would have been impolite to turn on the TV and set the VCR to record the show with them sitting right there. FR> I also like the characterizations of PD James Inspector Daiglaish (sp) FR> and Christie's Miss Marpel. I would never watch those old Miss Marpel FR> movies featuring M. Rutherford--at least I think that's who she was. Yeah, Rutherford was in a few and I think Angela Lansbury ( of Murder, She Wrote) starred in the original version of 'The Mirror Cracked'. RW> with me, and my latest read 'The Man in the Queue' is also enjoyable. FR> Either I've read that one or one with a similar title. Does it open FR> with a man murdered while standing in a queue waiting to get a ticket? Yes, that is the start of the novel. P.D. James is coming to Calgary in Nov. to do a reading and book signing, I hope I will be in town to see and hear her. Unfortunately I probably won't know until a day or two before if I'll be in town; but I should just buy the tickets and hope as these events almost always sellout. We went to see Carol Shields last night. She read a bit from her latest novel (Larry's Party) and answered questions. She was quite interesting and a good reader. I haven't read her most celebrated work, 'The Stone Diaries' but I did read an earlier novel 'Happenstance' several years ago. Shield's talked about how she always has been a voyeur of other people and loves to listen in to other conversations to get ideas for her work. TTYL, Bob 8-{) FR> ... Thi i YoUg moqeM OU qgUgs. FR> ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 FR> -!- Maximus/2 3.01 FR> ! Origin: DPSystem:4285 OS2-WARPED 520-290-8418 USR V.e+ (1:300/105) --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (403)209-2104 (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300013 Date: 10/30/97 From: ROBERT WHITE Time: 03:04pm \/To: IRV KOCH (Read 1 times) Subj: FIDO -=> Quoting Irv Koch to Robert White <=- IK> The Internet newsgroups vary. The Mystery version of this echo is IK> pretty good ... you don't even have to hit the delete key too often if IK> you have an ISP that "filters." THAT's the coming thing. However, IK> for Mystery, the "biggest deal on the net" is the Dorothy-L Listserver IK> list and its growing number of spin offs (HOUNDS-L, GASLIGHT, etc.). I should probably pick up Dorothy-L etc. and give them a try, but my time is so limited that I rarely even have time to try solving the 5 minute weekly mystery on The Case website. If you aren't familiar with this one try www.thecase.com for a weekly little mystery by e-mail and some other little goodies and a small discussion group. Bob 8-{) --- Blue Wave/DOS v2.20 * Origin: TechTalk; Calgary, Alberta. V.34+ (403)209-2104 (1:134/40) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300014 Date: 11/01/97 From: JAN WERTZ Time: 01:14am \/To: WAYNE CROW (Read 1 times) Subj: Dean R. Kootnz -> Hello, I'm new to this echo. Was wondering if there is any Dean Kootnz -> fans out there or Micheal Chricton fans? -> Wayne -> wcrow@wwisp.com -> --- -> QMPro 1.53 Tried to play my shoehorn... all I got was footnotes! I'm a Crighton fan, but I can't say he's exactly a mystery writer. So far my favorite of his books is his autobiography, _Travels_. Which does solve the mystery of how it was that he came to be a writer.... --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Mr Zip "Home of Aunt Gabby Echo" (1:123/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300015 Date: 11/01/97 From: JAN WERTZ Time: 01:20am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 1 times) Subj: The Thin Man Yes, the series of 'Thin Man' movies were based on the Dashiel Hammett characters in his same name novel. Later in that series a child character was added to play their son. Solving crimes is a bit harder if you have to find a baby-sitter before going out to search for clues... There was also a TV series starring Peter Lawford in the late 1950's. I remember that as my first real 'favorite' TV show. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Mr Zip "Home of Aunt Gabby Echo" (1:123/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300016 Date: 11/01/97 From: JAN WERTZ Time: 01:27am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 1 times) Subj: PBS Mystery! series I have really enjoyed many of the PBS Mystery! series also. I loved the "Albert Campion" series. Also "Chandler & Co." It was refreshing to have not only a contemporary mystery, but one in which the detective was less than a cold calculating professional with a genius IQ. This situation also allowed for a bit of humor, and I am a long time fan of British understated humor. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Mr Zip "Home of Aunt Gabby Echo" (1:123/17) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300017 Date: 10/30/97 From: MICHAEL LABRECK Time: 11:51pm \/To: WAYNE CROW (Read 1 times) Subj: Dean R. Kootnz Wayne: WC> Hello, I'm new to this echo. Was wondering if there is any Dean WC> Kootnz fans out there or Micheal Chricton fans? No much into Dean Kootnz, but I've got Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and Congo by Michael Chricton. -={Michael}=- --- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 [NR] * Origin: A Bit Of Light In Your Night 860/290-8578 10p-8a Only (1:142/578) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300018 Date: 11/01/97 From: SUSAN BULLA Time: 08:42am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 1 times) Subj: Current reads ST> After reading it, I think it grew on me, and I may continue reading hem ST> after all. We just got in an ARC of the new one, that will be out in n. Thanks for this news. I think I've not read the last two Davies' has written. Not sure if both are part of the series. * JABBER v1.2 * As the mist leaves no scar on the dark green hill-L. Cohen --- InterEcho 1.19 * Origin: The Oasis BBS: (817) 613-9002 (1:130/716) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EF300019 Date: 11/01/97 From: RUSS JERNIGAN Time: 08:13pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 1 times) Subj: FIDO troubles Hi, Suzze! ST> RW> FIDO must have burped your last couple of postings as I haven't seen ST> RW> any from you in quite awhile. ST>It has been weird, most days only 20-30 messages come through on the 4 ST>bases I pick up. Seems WAY too few. And I feel that at least half my ST>messages never get to anyone, yet the sysop of CPF says everything is ST>running fine..... A good friend (Laurie Campbell, for those who also know her) in Vancouver, BC, has been having the worst trouble getting out. Packets upload fine, sysop swears that the upload from his machine works fine. Do we ever get them? Nada. Zip. Oh, buggers. BTW, did you get this? On topic, I recently finished Dick Francis newest (dang, I just forgot the title). While it was a good read, I didn't enjoy it as much as his previous few. _To The Hilt_, _Wild Horses_, and _Decider_ by him were all excellent. Best, RussJ * SLMR 2.1a * Most people mistake my humor for a rare pituitary problem --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.11 * Origin: Rams' Island BBS (1:104/333.0)