--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200003 Date: 04/01/98 From: SUZZE TIERNAN Time: 07:35am \/To: JEANE MOORE (Read 0 times) Subj: More books! *** Quoting Jeane Moore to Suzze Tiernan dated 03-28-98 *** > Suzze Tiernan wrote to Jeane Moore. > > ST> Are you talking about Canadian mystery writers? I like > ST> Alison Gordon's series of mysteries, involving baseball. > > I had completely forgotten her! Yes, I liked them, too. I think I > read > three, maybe four. I seem to recall a long wait for the next one and I > sort of forgot to keep looking. She's one of those authors who can > make > me interested in something I have no interest in. I like that in an > author. > [------------------------- End of Quote --------------------------] Her newest one is just out, called "Prairie Hardball". --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Chessplayer's Forum (1:2410/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200004 Date: 03/25/98 From: MICHAEL LABRECK Time: 12:18am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 0 times) Subj: Miz Christie Fred: FR> re: Poirot and Miss Marple in the same tale ML> Maybe someday, an author will come up with the idea. Then again, maybe ML> that somebody will be me! :) FR> Go for it. I've tried writing something when I was in high school, but I've since lost the original drafts....and they say you tend to get a little forgetful as you get older. (g) -={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: F4200005 Date: 03/26/98 From: JEANE MOORE Time: 11:39am \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Hopefully forthcoming Suzze Tiernan wrote to Jeane Moore. ST> I admire your loyalty. Just remember we discount all hardcovers 20% ST> Do you have an Internet address? If you do, we have a ST> weekly electronic newsletter we'd be happy to send you. I'd like that very much. My e-mail address is jeane.moore@wizinfo.com. I look forward to seeing it. ... No, I'm from outer space. I only get my e-mail in Minneapolis. ___ X Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] X --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Allegedly from WizInfo CBCS Minneapolis 612.721.8859 (1:282/2022) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200006 Date: 03/28/98 From: STEVEN HORN Time: 12:27am \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 0 times) Subj: Death is now my Neighbor On 26 Mar 98 at 11:05, Fred Runk (1:300/105) wrote to Steven Horn: SH>> So Morse should be lefthanded?:-) FR> ????? My fault. He should be righthanded (dexter as opposed to sinister).:-) Take care, Steven Horn (shorn@yknet.yk.ca) Moderator, CAN_SYSLAW Co-Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT --- Msged/386 4.20 beta 3kl3 * Origin: Yukon Mail, Whitehorse, Canada (1:3409/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200007 Date: 03/26/98 From: MICHAEL LABRECK Time: 11:19pm \/To: JEANE MOORE (Read 0 times) Subj: Miz Christie Jeane: FR> also would love to see the conversations and interactions between Miss FR> Marple and Poirot--considering how different these two characters are, FR> and yet both created by the same author. ML> Maybe someday, an author will come up with the idea. Then again, maybe ML> that somebody will be me! :) JM> Tony Hillerman had two separate series characters - Jim Chee and Joe JM> Leaphorn - in several books each who then converged and worked JM> together in several books since. I like them both ways. Something that I'll have to look into, thanks.... :) -={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: F4200008 Date: 03/28/98 From: JEANE MOORE Time: 11:36pm \/To: SUZZE TIERNAN (Read 0 times) Subj: More books! Suzze Tiernan wrote to Jeane Moore. ST> Are you talking about Canadian mystery writers? I like ST> Alison Gordon's series of mysteries, involving baseball. I had completely forgotten her! Yes, I liked them, too. I think I read three, maybe four. I seem to recall a long wait for the next one and I sort of forgot to keep looking. She's one of those authors who can make me interested in something I have no interest in. I like that in an author. ... Necromancers put the FUN back in funerals! ___ X Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] X --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Allegedly from WizInfo CBCS Minneapolis 612.721.8859 (1:282/2022) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200009 Date: 03/28/98 From: JEANE MOORE Time: 11:49pm \/To: FRED RUNK (Read 0 times) Subj: Miz Christie Fred Runk wrote to Jeane Moore. FR> I've only read a few of Hillerman's works, and one was with both Chee FR> and Leaphorn. However, I didn't think they were really that FR> different--perhaps I need to become more familiar with them to perceive FR> the differences, but I didn't see them as widely disparate as FR> Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple. Well, I guess they're not - they're both men, both Navajo, both policemen - But I always thought they were very separable, having distinctly different outlooks and personalities. One is retirement age, one is just reaching his prime. One is very traditional and religious, one is very questioning, almost cynical. Perhaps I see them as so different because I read Hillerman's books right from the beginning, as they were published. ... A spear is a big responsibility. Navajo proverb ___ X Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] X --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Allegedly from WizInfo CBCS Minneapolis 612.721.8859 (1:282/2022) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200010 Date: 03/29/98 From: JEANE MOORE Time: 12:28am \/To: STEVEN HORN (Read 0 times) Subj: Death is now my Neighbou Steven Horn wrote to Jeane Moore. SH> I've read several of the Van de Wetering novels and was less impressed SH> by their authenticity than I was by the Van der Valk series. SH> But that may have as much to do with style as it does with SH> content as Grijpstra's and De Geer's Amsterdam bears an SH> uncanny resemblance to the real thing. The styles were very different, and I think could account for your reservations. Van de Wetering was (ifI remember this correctly from the book blurbs) once an auxiliary member of the police there, so I have always accepted his descriptions of procedures, etc. SH> As for the Arlette SH> novels, she simply did not fit in the surroundings the same SH> way as Van der Valk did so the books become less credible. SH> If you've read P.D. James's Devices and Desires, you will SH> appreciate how someone really sees a world and fits within SH> it well. Dalgleish's sojourn in Sussex is superb. I think that by the time this book came along, I'd given up on P.D. James. I never really liked her characters or believed in them (until I saw Roy Marsden do Dalgliesh on television), and her style was so dogged and wooden. And dogmatic. ... It's not over till the Fat Lady sings.....Acme tagline Co. ___ X Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] X --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Allegedly from WizInfo CBCS Minneapolis 612.721.8859 (1:282/2022) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 244 MYSTERY Ref: F4200011 Date: 03/28/98 From: FRED RUNK Time: 01:29pm \/To: MICHAEL LABRECK (Read 0 times) Subj: Miz Christie -=>While in the White Hart, Michael Labreck explained to Fred Runk that<=- ML> Maybe someday, an author will come up with the idea. Then again, maybe ML> that somebody will be me! :) FR> Go for it. ML> I've tried writing something when I was in high school, but I've since ML> lost the original drafts....and they say you tend to get a little ML> forgetful as you get older. (g) Well, then you have some space for some new drafts... ... Hug: A roundabout way of expressing affection. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: DPSystem:4285 OS2-WARPED 520-290-8418 USR V.e+ (1:300/105)