Hakan- Congrats in getting such a high score on Christian's quiz. Your memory must be incredible. I, unfortunately, did not have the time to take the quiz...
Sam- I'm glad you liked the list. I hope you found a few of your favorites mentioned there. As you can see, my taste in mysteries is pretty wide and varied,...
I think reviews should go in as a separate list. I'll create a new list for them soon unless someone beats me to it. For the format, just use tabs between the...
Is Golden Age Detective fiction entertainment for the entire family? This question came to mind recently in two separate incidents that I thought that I'd...
Hi Richard-- Thanks for the comments on murder mysteries and kids today, and thanks for taking it to such an entertaining end (I'm waiting for the DetectiveSet...
I read my first Christies in the summer 1974, when I was eight years old. I believe they were And Then There Were None, The ABC Murders, Murder Is Easy and...
Hi Richard and all: A very interesting discussion. I started my mystery reading with Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Nancy Ames (the nurse... why doesn't that...
Jason- Your comments were great. And I first started on the Holmes stories and Christie when I was in fourth grade. I think I'll start composing the John...
I was given my first detective story--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, complete with Dr. Grimesby Roylott sending snakes down the chute to kill his...
... Quite the contrary I'm afraid! Since my memory for most details are constantly low, I used every possible source of information (books, internet and such)...
As I recall, the most disgusting part in An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is the description of Bernie Pryde's (?) slashed wrists, or did she do vomit in this one...
Another part of it is what children understand. When reading Greek mythology from the age of five on, I didn't pay much attention to the physical side of...
Dear Curt Evans, Yes, it was Original Sin--also the one in which one of the victims ended up with a snake in his mouth, and there's a long and pathologically...
Lady in the Lake has a fairly disgusting drowned body description as well, but it actually serves a broader purpose than reminding us of the shocking fact that...
Nick's argument here is noteworthy. I don't like the idea of praising GAD stories for being inconsequential and inoffensive, even if the subject is what...
Nick, "The victim isn't really dead, he's just pretending; the putrefying head buried underneath a clump of weeds or George Joseph Smith boiled alive in the...
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Anita - Sam With no further reply from from Rogers's son, there's no rush in getting the stories to C&L, but we would oike to read through them eventually to ...
Good Morning Doug: Thanks for the info. I will work on getting the stories copied in the next few weeks, and get them off to you. As for the standing order on...
Here is a bit from Freeman Wills Crofts, on the possible robbing of a body from a graveyard. "The whole subject, as Fench thought out the details, was ...
... Well, if everyone's okay with it - sure! As there were only four contestants in the end, it's not too much work on my part. ... Wouldn't that be a little...
I really don't need to hear that I came last at anything in life, including a quiz! Am I alone in this sentiment? If we need to hear about runners up that's...
But GADS are less sexually explicit and violent than modern works. I can think off the top of my head of a work like Ngaio Marsh's Artists in Crime, wherein...
Hi, everyone! Contrary to popular rumors, House of Stratus publishing is NOT out of business. In the past two days I have spoken to Karen Mitchell in the...
Dear Richard, This is wonderful news. Now I can complete my collection of Anthony Berkeley novels. Regards, Nick Fuller ... Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds...
This is an ancillary subject, but this Group does not show up on my regular Yahoo page -- I have to go to Nicholas Fuller's site to get onto it. Does anybody...
OK! I love best-of lists, and yours is one of the most interesting. Of course, I don't agree with it in parts (which is why lists are fun to read). 25 -- have...
I just thought I'd let all the participants of the mystery quiz know that I've mailed your essays and that I hope you'll receive them all before Christmas. I...
Mrs. Ethel Burge (nicknamed ‘Wendy’ after J.M. Barrie), collecting for the Red Cross, is murdered in the hamlet of Goose Common, her body found floating...
