Hi everyone: I have been organizing my library and find myself with 4 duplicate paperback books... all is very good condition. Two by Nicholas Blake... There's...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:04 pm
Hi! I just got a letter from Jim McKee from southwest Florida. His computer broke, and he was unable to fix it, so he is no longer has a computer. I do have an...
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Sam Karnick
SAMK@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:20 pm
Anita, please send Jim my highest regards and tell him to get a computer right away, for goodness' sake. As Henry Jones Sr. said, this is intolerable! Best...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 2, 2001 7:46 pm
I bet Nero Wolfe would have found it intolerable too! Richard ... From: Sam Karnick [mailto:SAMK@...] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:19 PM To:...
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Jon Jermey
jonjermey@...
Aug 3, 2001 1:05 am
The e-book newsgroups alt-binaries.e-book and alt.binaries.e-book.flood are starting to feature various detective stories including all the Charlie Chan books...
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r-skingsley@...
Aug 3, 2001 1:08 am
Anita: Tell Jim "Hi" from me, too. And that we miss all his great input and the quizes. I just watched the first part of "Over My Dead Body" and discovered...
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Bill Deeck
billdeeck@...
Aug 3, 2001 1:31 am
GREENMASK! by Elizabeth Linington is not a Golden Age novel, of course, but one that involves novels from the Golden Age. While a series of apparently...
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dgreene@...
Aug 8, 2001 5:28 pm
I just heard from Harry Keating. here are the most recent members: 1997 -- Michael Hartland 1998 -- Ian Rankin John Harvey 1999 -- Ann Granger Robert Goddard ...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 8, 2001 7:25 pm
I received the H.C. Bailey book, The Highwayman today. It is really in great condition for a 1915 printing... spine is a little faded, but otherwise red...
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chenrik@...
Aug 11, 2001 11:25 am
... May I also add my Tuppence worth that SPANISH CAPE is a pretty darn good book with which to start reading Ellery Queen. As Richard already has pointed out,...
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Punque
snapshot2@...
Aug 11, 2001 10:22 pm
Hi, Christian --- Yes, I positively have the Ellery Queen book, SPANISH CAPE, but it is going to be a while before I can get to it. Being a book reviewer I got...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 13, 2001 1:14 pm
Happy Monday to all GA detective fiction readers. As Elmer Fudd might say: 'It's been vewy, vewy quiet out there.' Erle Stanley Garnder's THE SHOPLIFTER'S...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 13, 2001 7:23 pm
I just got a treasure trove of books/magazine from e-bay, and I wanted to share the titles with you. Christian: Death at Ash House, Miles Burton, 1942. You...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 13, 2001 8:59 pm
There's a bok on e-bay called Fatal Descent from 1939 written by John Rhode and Carter Dickson. Does anyone know anything about this book. It is not listed in...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 13, 2001 9:22 pm
Anita- May I direct you to Mr. Douglas Greene's very informative and highly readable biography on Carr for the most complete information. But in a nutshell,...
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Enrique Bird
enfbirdp@...
Aug 13, 2001 9:44 pm
Anita, other friends, It is a collaboration between the two. It is very clever technically and regarded as the classic "murder in a lift (elevator". It is also...
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Sam Karnick
SAMK@...
Aug 13, 2001 10:32 pm
Nice review, Richard. Here's what I read on vacation. Not much, but I tried. THE TRAGEDY OF Z, by Barnaby Ross, aka Ellery Queen. Nice puzzle, interesting...
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Bill Vande Water
billvw@...
Aug 14, 2001 12:26 am
I agree that the Lord Darcy mysteries are a treasure, one of the few crossover mystery/fantasy series that maintains a true detective story flavor. And fair...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 14, 2001 12:29 am
Hi Richard: Thanks for the info. I didn't know any of that story (sometimes I think I live in a cave...) And I would be absolutely thrilled to borrow Fatal...
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Jim Sleuth
gadetective@...
Aug 14, 2001 12:45 am
This is Jim, formerly Jim010, thanking everyone for the kind words and thanking Kris for letting me use his computer. It is great to see the group so large and...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 14, 2001 12:55 pm
Sam- It is true that I have many Mason novels yet to read, but to my mind, THE COUNTERFEIT EYE is one of the greatest Perry Mason novel Gardner wrote. Not...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 14, 2001 1:02 pm
Anita- I will send it to you with the other things. Is FATAL DESCENT worthy to own? Absolutely. It is Carr and Rhode, after all. But you can't own ...
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Sam Karnick
SAMK@...
Aug 14, 2001 3:52 pm
Bill, I have a copy of TEN LITTLE WIZARDS, I think it was called, by Michael Kurland. I have not yet read it, but it looks like a lot of fun. I understand that...
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Sam Karnick
SAMK@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:05 pm
Jim, For when you check back in again. . . . Great to hear from you! Christie and Dexter are correct about BLEAK HOUSE. At first there is a bit of wading,...
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Sam Karnick
SAMK@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:22 pm
Richard, Yes, I think that it does indeed hold its own with the works you mention. High praise, but well deserved. Best w's, S.T. Karnick S. T. Karnick Editor...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 14, 2001 4:29 pm
Jim (and others) I, too, would like to encourage reading (and finishing!)BLEAK HOUSE. Dickens descriptive powers are at their brilliant best in this book,...
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chenrik@...
Aug 16, 2001 1:59 pm
... Hey Jim, great to hear from you again! Your English friend (who is actually Swedish) is definitely still here, although he's on vacation. But he would...
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chenrik@...
Aug 16, 2001 2:03 pm
... Of course it is. :( It's in both Carr's and Rhode's bibliography, but I think you may have missed it as I've listed it under it's "real" title, DROP TO HIS...
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Richard.A.Liedholm@...
Aug 16, 2001 2:06 pm
Anita- When I responded to your e-mail about FATAL DESCENT, I failed to mention, as Christian just reminded me, that the original British title was DROP TO...
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Joe Hoffman
ljhoffman@...
Aug 22, 2001 8:31 pm
Boy, it has been quieter than a church mouse with our group. You could murder someone and there would be no witnesses. Anyway, I finished my big project and...
