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Hermione69
| Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 5:18 pm
<I really need to get off the computer! I have been online almost all day!>
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Crazydog
| Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 9:16 am
Just received a collection of 25 or so slightly used Christie paperbacks off of Ebay for what I would have paid for two of them brand new! What a great idea. Thanks again Fluffy for the suggestion. Now I'm just trying to get through the book I'm currently reading so I can start on these! I think I'm going to start with "Thirteen at Dinner". I like the original title "Lord Edgware Dies" better, but I guess it was too English sounding for the original American audience.
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Crazydog
| Monday, March 17, 2003 - 1:19 pm
Just finished "Lord Edgware Dies". Liked it a lot. Very surprised by who the killer was. Good fun.
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Kstme
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 8:19 am
I've been in a reading frenzy lately. Trying some "new" authors and having a blast! Herm and Crazy...I got most my Ruth Rendel and Peter Robinson books off eBay. So much cheaper!! I also got the complete set of "Inspector Morse" from there. I LOVE Agatha!! I've got over 50 and reread them off and on! She truly was a master of her craft! Fluff...I don't what a "drawingroom mystery" is but a cozy mystery (to me) is a quick read that makes you think and you have fun while doing it!LOL I have just ordered the "Miss Julia" series. Understand they are on the floor funny!! I like the Jill Churchill series about the "Grace and Favor" house. I'm reading "Death, Lies and Apple Pies" right now and it is cute!! Thanks!
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Fluffybbw
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:17 am
To me Kstme, a drawingroom mystery is the one where everyone is very English, very proper, very little blood is shed, poison is usually the method used most for murder. The person who solves the crime is very often an older women, very frail looking but very witty and wise. You learn alot about the characters, alot of verbal interaction takes place between the characters. Usually no fast car chases, actually very little running takes place until the very end. And generally all the prime players in the drama gather in the library or drawingroom of the big manor house and the killer is revealed. I just got the first four mysteries in the "Death, Lies and Apple Pies" series off Ebay.
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Fluffybbw
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:40 am
Kstme I think your definition of a "cosy" is exactly right, they are thinking mysteries and I always have fun while reading them!! Try Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver mysteries or some of Mary Roberts Rinehart's books sometime, they are great cosy reads!
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Kstme
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:48 am
Fluff...YES!! I totally agree!! The "Grace and Favor" Mysteries are like that. They take place during the depression, in NY state, but really have that English flare to them. Has anyone read any Cynthia Harrod-Eagles books?? I have not but she was recommended. I bought a book last week called "An English Mystery" by Doughty. Haven't read it yet. The reviews are all over the board from "fantastic" to "the worst I've ever read!" hmmmm One more question. Has anyone read Caroline Graham? The "Midsomer Murder" series? I've been watching the TV series on A&E and love them.
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Kstme
| Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 9:55 am
Fluff...for some reason I've steered away from Wentworth. Don't have a clue as to why. I will definitely look up her Ms. Silver series! I've never heard of Rinehart. I will look her up also! THANK YOU!!!! It was funny. The other night, my dh and I were talking about how, before JA Jance, the only woman author I would read was Ms. Agatha...LOL Women authors have really come into their own and sometimes write better than men!!!! I still pick through my old John McDonald books. Parker has lost his edge with Spencer lately and I'm still not too sure about Sunny Randall. Do not like the other series he's writing (can't even remember the character's name!).
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Kstme
| Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 9:27 pm
Ahmmmm...guess no one had the answers to my questions I read the new "Aunt Dimity" book today. It was a treat!! Nancy Atherton just writes a fun book!! I'm not talking rocket-science but it took a bit to figure out "who" and "why"...I should have picked it up sooner but...LOL
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Kstme
| Friday, April 04, 2003 - 1:49 pm
I finished the third "Grace and Favor" mystery yesterday. I really love the way Jill Churchill writes. She seems to find so many interesting things about the 1930s to weave into her stories. This time she used "The Bonus Marches" as a way to promote the newspaper editor. I found the subject so fascinating I looked it up on Google. It was very interesting and very sad! I've read two of the "Inspector Banks" novels and love them. Real British crime, not "cozies", yet worth the read. Both books have grabbed me from the beginning and I haven't wanted to take my necessary breaks!LOL
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Kstme
| Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 4:21 pm
Just finished the new "Murder, She Wrote" "Majoring in Murder." Easy and fast read. Standard for the series yet better than the last two. Donald Bain seemed to put an edge in this one that I liked. Why am I the only person posting in this thread?
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Kstme
| Monday, April 14, 2003 - 4:52 pm
I'm keeping this thread going...barely... Two books I read over the weekend..."Mrs. Jefferies Pleads Her Case" by Emily Brightwell and "Gunpowder Green" by Laura Childs. Both were worth my time. I always love Mrs Jefferies! Victorian Murder Mysteries with comedic undertones. I, seriously, did not "get it" until the end! "Gunpowder Green" I had figured out right away but it was fun reading how it played out. Maesin just finished "CSI", the first book in this new series. She said it was "pretty cool"...not a real brain-picker, but a decent book!
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Crazydog
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 7:16 am
Kstme, I'll try and help you keep the thread alive... I am making my way through the Agatha Christies I picked up from Ebay. Just finished "The ABC Murders". I thought it was very well done. It seemed odd to me that the apparent murderer appeared to be revealed to the reader early on, but there was so much more to it. Brilliant.
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Chai
| Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 4:13 pm
Crazy, I'm on an Agatha Christie craze, myself, these days! Right now I'm reading "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd". It may turn out to my my favorite all-time book, ever!!! I don't know if I'll figure out whodunnit in this one! There are so many susupicious people with strong motives! I guess I just don't have the "little grey cells" of Poirot!!! LOL!
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Dheiner
| Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:08 am
Lawrence Block. Scudder and Rhodenbarr. Read them.
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Caroline
| Thursday, May 22, 2003 - 11:04 pm
Been reading Agatha on and off for many, many years ...have to go grab one this weekend...thanks for the reminder. Thanks also, Dheiner...will check them out.
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Chai
| Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 9:25 am
Caroline, (and everyone else who's been reading Agatha) Her work is awesome, isn't it? She was truly the Queen of her craft! Right now I'm reading my first ever Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta series), Unnatural Exposure. Cornwell has been so hugely popular, and now I know why! The book is so well written! I'm amazed at the amount of research she seems to put into her book. I love it, even if it is a bit gory and gruesome! (I wouldn't recommend reading this one while eating! LOL!) There must be some other Cornwell fans out there!
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Tess
| Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 8:57 pm
There are quite a few of us I think, Chai. I've read all of her books so far except for the last one. It's on my shelf of books to read and I expect to get to it this summer.
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Bookworm
| Saturday, May 31, 2003 - 9:05 pm
I just discovered Cornwell by accident. One of her books was on clearance at Half Price Books. I really like her too and have read a couple of her books. However the Scarpetta books are a series, so you might check out the first, which I believe is Postmortem. I think I read the last one first (forget the name right now) and then went back and bought some of her earlier ones and read Postmortem next. I love Agatha Christie too.
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Hermione69
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 9:59 am
Agatha Christie is awesome. I have read every single one of her books and only guessed the murderer ONE time. That was in Sleeping Murder. I love Patricia Cornwell and I have lived in both the Tidewater and Central areas of the state of Virginia and recognize many of her locations, which is always very cool to me. She really wigs me out. I have read a few of Linda Fairstein and enjoyed them, but she doesn't hold a candle to Cornwell, IMHO.
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Bookworm
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 11:40 am
I checked out patriciacornwell.com and here is the list of her Scarpetta series. This is in what I would call reverse order--from most recently published, back. The Last Precinct Black Notice Point of Origin Unnatural Exposure Cause of Death From Potter's Field The Body Farm Cruel and Unusual All That Remains Body of Evidence Postmortem
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Bookworm
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 11:42 am
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Ophiliasgrandma
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 4:04 pm
I've read all of Cornwell. The Scarpetta series started with a bang, but the author seems to have run out of whatever it was that made the first few so darn good. The past 3 or 4 left me dissatisfied. And I agree that Cristie was the Queen and King of mysteries!
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Tess
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 7:28 pm
I have the entire Agatha Christie collection in a matched hard cover set. It took me 2 years to get them all but I'll never give them up. The first Agatha Christie book I read was when I was 12 (And Then There Were None) and I've read every single one---many of them more than once. Like Hermione, I've only guessed the killer correctly one time. I agree with Ophiliasgrandma regarding the Scarpetta series. I can't say the turning point for me because that would really spoil things for those who haven't read all her books yet. I've struggled to get through The Last Precint but I'm sure I'll pick it up again this summer and finish it off. I also enjoy Carolyn Hart for some lighter mysteries.
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Myjohnhenry
| Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 8:31 pm
Has anyone read Donna Anders books? Ann Rule highly recommends her on her website so I have requested one of her books on tape from the library. The reviews on Amazon look pretty good too although I am worried that they are too much horror for me...we shall see.
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