PAC------------------- ----------------------------------------------------LAPL PAC------------------- AUTHOR(s): Roberts, John Maddox. TITLE(s): Murder in Tarsis / John Maddox Roberts. Lake Geneva, WI : TSR, c1996. 250 p. ; 23 cm. Dragonlance saga preludes "A fantasy mystery"--Jacket. SUBJECT(s): Fantastic fiction. LOCN: FICCEN CIRC STATUS: Not checked out -- CALL #: ----2 of 13-----------------------------------------LAPL PAC------------------- ----------------------------------------------------LAPL PAC------------------- AUTHOR(s): Roberts, John Maddox. TITLE(s): The ghosts of Saigon / John Maddox Roberts. 1st U.S. ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996. 280 p. ; 22 cm. "A Thomas Dunne book." "A Gabe Treloar mystery"--jacket. SUBJECT(s): Detective and mystery stories. Press for availability summary (Q to Quit) q -- ___ __ chessler@mix.cpcug.org d_)--/d chessler@capaccess.org ... E-mail: ->132 1:109/459 david.chessler@mix.cpcug.org --- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.23 * Origin: << Crystal Aerie >> (703) 903-9241 (1:109/1111) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EFN00002 Date: 11/17/97 From: STEVEN HORN Time: 11:10pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 1 times) Subj: Reviewing On 17 Nov 97 at 12:45, Suzze Tiernan (1:2410/278) wrote to Steven Horn: ST> I have also wondered the same thing. Unless they write the reviews "in ST> general" and with no quotes or details from the book. The problem is that a reviewer may not be able to do that, particularly if the review is critical. It's a bit difficult to say that something is a piece of s*** without quoting chapter and verse.:-) Take care, Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.yk.ca) Moderator, CAN_SYSLAW --- Msged/NT 4.20 beta 2 * Origin: Yukon Mail, Whitehorse, Canada (1:3409/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EFQ00000 Date: 11/18/97 From: RUSS JERNIGAN Time: 03:41pm \/To: DAVID CHESSLER (Read 1 times) Subj: Bethesda Hi, David! DC>> is that the love of Falco's life is many steps above him, socially DC>> and financially, while Gordianus' love turn's out to be his female DC>> slave. DC>Who is from Alexandria, is named Bethesda, and so is almost DC>certainly Jewish, though neither he nor she ever mentions DC>anything. DC>Bethesda is a pool of healing near Jerusalem. It's mentioned in DC>the Bible. It's better known as the home of Bethesda Naval DC>Medical Center. (There's also a Bethesda in Ohio, near DC>Zanesville, which was the original home of Zane Grey.) Gee, I thought that Bethesda Naval Medical Center was in Maryland? I didn't realize that we had ceded it to the Israelis or the Palestinians. ;-> RussJ * SLMR 2.1a * Borg in '98 Resistance is futile --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.11 * Origin: Rams' Island BBS (1:104/333.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: EFR00000 Date: 11/18/97 From: JAN MURPHY Time: 07:53am \/To: MICHAEL LABRECK (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: Agatha Christie readers? > ML> I'll look into Dorothy Sayers, and let you know how > I like her -- > ML> thanks! > > FR> You might look into the Campion stories too--I've never > read any, but > FR> I saw several on MYSTERY!. Somebody here could tell > you who wrote > FR> those. > > Again, I say thanks.... Hello, Michael -- I see you've wandered into the 'golden age' of detective fiction. Let's see if we can come up with a comprehensive list so that you'll have all the information in one place. Like many other readers of this echo, I am a fan of Dorothy Sayers' novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. When I first started reading Ngaio Marsh's books with Roderick Alleyn, I had great difficulty at first because Alleyn seemed like a bad Wimsey clone. This feeling didn't last because Marsh very quickly developed Alleyn into his own person, quite different from Wimsey. But there's a clue in an early book which tipped me off -- I was not seeing the whole picture. One character says to Alleyn, when he is being particularly silly, to be careful or "people will think you are a detective" -- an odd comment to make to a fellow from the Yard, even when made by a journalist. ;-) Clearly there was something going on, and I soon found out that there were a LOT of detective series where the hero had a whiff of Wimsey. But the timing was not quite right for them to all be copies of Sayers, and so I suspected that there was some other common source which had influenced everybody, Sayers included. A biography of Sayers eventually gave me the answer, as Sayers freely confessed that the early Wimsey owed a very great deal to E.C. Bentley's detective in _Trent's Last Case_. (Like Marsh, Sayers went on to make Wimsey very much his own creature, not at all like Bentley's creation.) So we have at least three detective series which have been influenced by E.C. Bentley Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn Margarey Allingham's Campion Are there any more? NB: I've also watched the MYSTERY! adaptations of Georges Simeon's Maigret, but those are French, and a different kettle of fish entirely. Haven't worked up the gumption to tackle the books yet, as there are a lot of them, and I don't know if I'll like them as much without Michael Gambon (the actor who plays Maigret). --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: Sci-Fido II, World's Oldest SF BBS, Berkeley, CA (1:161/84.0)