Would this include the Burton titles as well, I wonder? ... the Bailey ... representatives. What ... Fuller ... GAdetection@y... ... [GAdetection] Ebook...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Nov 1, 2002 8:01 pm
** GIRL ON THE RUN, by Eve Hunt. This odd novel begins as a gothic (an evil husband tries to kill his charming wife) turns into a thriller (the charming wife...
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Nicholas Fuller
stoke_moran
Nov 1, 2002 11:42 pm
Dear Xavier, Postern of Fate was the last book Christie wrote (not the same as Christie's last book), and a decline is notable even between this and Elephants...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Nov 2, 2002 12:19 pm
**** A HAMMER IN HIS HAND, by Whit Masterson Cop woman Evelyn Duncan and her husband are savagely murdered at their home. Prime suspect is a misfit who attacks...
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dr_g_fell
Nov 2, 2002 3:06 pm
Xavier, I think Blake's three best books are "The Private Wound", "Head of a Traveller" and "The Beast Must Die". Get hold of any of these--better still, grab...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Nov 2, 2002 4:34 pm
Does anybody have comments about the following books: - "Dead Water" and "Tied Up in Tinsel" by Ngaio Marsh - "Murder by Latitude" by Rufus King - "Death and...
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mike5568
Nov 2, 2002 5:51 pm
There`s Troble Brewing was also my first Nicholas Blake novel and I was not too impressed. A couple weeks ago I read The Smiler With The Knife and that was...
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mike5568
Nov 2, 2002 6:01 pm
I just finished readin Murder By Latitude last night. It is moody, atmospheric and melodramatic. My first foray into Kings writing and it was a different and...
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mike5568
Nov 2, 2002 6:18 pm
A JDC ten list. 10.To Wake The Dead, 9.Three Coffins, 8.Waxworks Murder, 7.The Blind Barber, 6.The Gilded Man, 5.Nine and Death Make Ten, 4.The Unicorn...
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Nicholas Fuller
stoke_moran
Nov 2, 2002 9:23 pm
Dear Xavier, The best Nicholas Blakes: Head of a Traveller (excellent) There's Trouble Brewing The Case of the Abominable Snowman Thou Shell of Death A...
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Christian Henriksson
sven_christi...
Nov 2, 2002 9:49 pm
... Dead Water - not one of Marsh's best, I think. Tied up in Tinsel - one of the best of Marsh's later books, together with Photo-Finish. ... Well, _I_ liked...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Nov 3, 2002 5:13 am
Microsoft have decided to promote their .LIT format by providing a directory of ebooks in that format. This includes the largest collection of detective...
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Wyatt James
wyattjames
Nov 3, 2002 7:56 am
Do you need special software to read .LIT files? (If it's Microsoft, you probably do, so is there a place to download that from? If I can open it in Wordpad,...
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Wyatt James
wyattjames
Nov 3, 2002 8:52 am
I have never been a Ngaio Marsh fan, although some of her books are OK. But for some reason, I really liked her last (?) mystery, "Light Thickens". Don't know...
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Wyatt James
wyattjames
Nov 3, 2002 9:25 am
People here keep telling me how good this show is, so I watched it for a third time. Well, it is still a stupid network TV show, with no presentation for...
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Wyatt James
wyattjames
Nov 3, 2002 10:55 am
Didn't like this at all when it came out -- it wasn't a detective story. Thirty years later on rereading it I find it a masterpiece of gothic fiction. And of...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Nov 3, 2002 12:37 pm
"Light Thickens" is one the numerous books waiting on my crowded shelves for I read them, but I think its turn will come soon. Xavier ... From: Wyatt James To:...
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Xavier Lechard
xavierlechard
Nov 3, 2002 12:37 pm
Since we are on Marsh, has anybody a list of Troy Alleyn's appearances in her works? I don't know why, but Troy is a character I like very much, and her...
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twoshed2000
Nov 3, 2002 5:23 pm
I agree that this is one of her best books. I got totally caught out when the riddle was solved,I would have to reread to see whether it was actually "fair...
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Jon Jermey
jonpjermey
Nov 3, 2002 7:52 pm
You need the Microsoft Reader, which is a free download from that same address. It's available for Pentiums - might be a bit slow on older PCs. To use it on a...
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RICHARD LIEDHOLM
richardliedholm
Nov 3, 2002 9:17 pm
Didn't Christie's grandson, Matthew Pritchard, state that Endless Night was one Christie's favorite books? I also seem to recall that he said that she really...
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Christian Henriksson
sven_christi...
Nov 3, 2002 9:31 pm
... I'm not impressed when they say that "The Secret Adversary" was Agatha Christie's first novel, but then again, it's Microsoft, and what do they know? ...
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Christian Henriksson
sven_christi...
Nov 3, 2002 9:35 pm
... Maelbeatha, it seems. And just like you say, he seems to have been treated quite unfairly, since he was reportedly a rather capable king, and his reign...
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b_ergang
Nov 4, 2002 4:11 am
I haven't read THE BEAST MUST DIE in many years and no longer have a copy, but Nick, you're the first person I've heard call it mediocre. I'd be interested to...
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Nicholas Fuller
stoke_moran
Nov 4, 2002 4:32 am
Dear Barry, I find The Beast Must Die much too long for its contents and anti-climactic: the principal idea would have made an excellent short story, but there...
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Enrique Bird
efbp
Nov 4, 2002 2:01 pm
Wyatt and other friends, +++ S P O I L E R +++ "Endless Night" is am illustration of what AC herself often said - she would write the same book [plot] over and...
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jeffrmarks@...
cincysingle
Nov 4, 2002 2:03 pm
I just finished reading a spate of Leslie Ford books. I was wondering what some of the other list members felt about how her books have held up over time. Jeff...
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dr_g_fell
Nov 4, 2002 4:24 pm
... climactic: the principal idea would have made an excellent short story, but there is not enough in it to make a decent novel (one of the reasons why I...
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mike5568
Nov 4, 2002 5:29 pm
Just off the top of my head, two Marsh books that had Troy in them that I enjoyed were Spinsters In Jeopardy and Photo-Finish. Also Death In A White Tie was...
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mike5568
Nov 4, 2002 5:37 pm
Has anybody read this book? Published ten years after the death of Craig Rice, supposedly found in a trunk in an attic. Rumours that it was completely ghost...
