BERNARD NEWMAN Maginot Line Murder This book is more a thriller than a detective novel although a number of the elements of the latter are present. The...
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Gary, welcome to the list. I am a new arrival myself but can tell you you'll find the list both entertaining and erudite -- not to mention so friendly you...
Mary Reed
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May 1, 2007 3:00 pm
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Thankyou all for your warm welcome! I first became a fan of Detective fiction after reading Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid. I still love those stories,...
... you you'll ... friendly ... <G> ... I've sent a reply to you and the others, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I have sent it to the wrong place. Ooops!...
Nice to see. The Norbert Davis and Fredric Brown books don't appear to have made it back yet, but some of the Judge Dee books by Robert van Gulick are...
Charteris, Leslie - Once More the Saint (1933) aka The Saint and Mr Teal Three novellas showing the Saint at his best. By 1933 he had become slightly less...
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Some time ago I noticed Conan Doyle published more than one collection of short stories involving protagonists other than his most famous creations. I am...
Mary Reed
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May 2, 2007 12:20 am
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I read this back in the 1990s and thought quite entertaining. Doyle is such a wonderful natural tale teller. Also, I'm pretty sure Holmes is the letter...
WHODUNIT? HOUDINI? (1976) is an anthology of thirteen mystery stories dealing with the common theme of magic; yet this is not a book of fantasy: while magic is...
GADers! Sez Curt: Also, I'm pretty sure Holmes is the letter writer in two (as I recall) of the stories! And I sez: What an interesting notion! Which are you...
Mary Reed
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May 2, 2007 3:04 am
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What! No John Rhode/Miles Burtons? Anita ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... I'm not sure what's meant by "letter writer," but Holmes is the author of two stories, "The Blanched Soldier," and "The Lion's Mane." In the first, Watson...
Mary R, a while since I read these Round the Fire Stories, but in two of the stories (is it The Man With the Watches and The Lost Special) isn't there a letter...
Hi all, was thinking about the issue of reader gender stereotypes in GADS. Most obviously, men are supposed to like Chandler and the tough guys while women are...
Continuing my amble through this interesting if minor writers prodigious output. Straker was very prolific around this time . A Coil of Rope shifts away from ...
... Of course it is. I'd have pointed out the same if you'd not beaten me to it. These two stories (as well as "The Field Bazaar" and "How Watson Learned the...
I have a feeling you are referring to me as one of the women who are strong Major Street fans... and you are, of course, correct. I too like books by all...
Hello everyone: Actually, I believe that mysteries as a genre either appeal to "people-who-like-mysteries" or they don't, regardless of whether the reader is...
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Well, this is so intriguing I just went back and checked Round The Fire Stories. In The Man With The Watches we see: There was a letter in the Daily Gazette,...
Mary Reed
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May 2, 2007 10:40 pm
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Well-said, Katherine! Poirot, as a fantasy projection, is one of those "male characters [who] were not all that grubby either"--this despite Mrs. Christie's...
... But ... (these ... these ... off. ... the ... author ... Agreed! But gender does seem to have a real influence upon which kind of mystery authors...
... Conan Doyle got sick and tired of Sherlock Holmes, considering that the attention paid to the Holmes took away from ACD's more important literary works,...
... forgive me: P.D. James also followed this pattern with Adam Dalgliesh: he ended up with a woman who was a distinguished scholar with a PhD, and possessed...
Indeed I was, Anita! I think the key difference is not genders, but generations. The post-WW2 generations seem not to like their detection dry. Crime novels...
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