Author Topic: Mystery Corner ~ 2 (Read 910298 times)

Judy Laird · « **Reply #7800 on:** November 28, 2015, 10:06:24 PM »

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Joan did you read Worthy ?

Frybabe · « **Reply #7801 on:** November 29, 2015, 06:02:23 AM »

I am reading a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories called The Man From Archangel and Other Tales. So far, they are pretty good.

Steph · « **Reply #7802 on:** November 29, 2015, 11:23:31 AM »

I am a serioius chicken and getting worse each year.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #7803 on:** November 29, 2015, 02:30:48 PM »

I enjoyed Twin Peaks, but I have no nerve for scary books or films.

There was a drama on our TV a while ago, The Secret of Crickley Hall (a novel by James Herbert, I think). I was so terrified watching it that i had to have a cushion ready to hide behind. Daughter sat on the opposite sofa and laughed at me, said the acting was quite ridiculous and she couldn't understand why I was frightened. I put it down to an over-active imagination...

London Spy, which we are currently enjoying, is also a bit scary and cushion worthy - even Madeleine has some sympathy with me over this one.

Strangely, the thing that really scares both my daughters is anything to do with zombies. I find the idea totally laughable and can't take them seriously at all, but Madeleine has had nightmares about them. Must be a generational thing.

Rosemary

JoanK · « **Reply #7804 on:** November 29, 2015, 06:52:47 PM »

The cushion is a good idea! I'll have to remember that. Does it work at the doctor's office, too?

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #7805 on:** November 30, 2015, 07:06:16 AM »

Worth a try Joan :-)

Steph · « **Reply #7806 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:08:55 AM »

hmm. how foolish will I look sitting in the dentist office with my cushion..Worth a try, since that gives me nightmares and always has.

MaryPage · « **Reply #7807 on:** November 30, 2015, 08:32:20 AM »

But Steph, you can't put a cushion over your face for the dentist. Maybe you could wear those sleep covers for the eyes? I have some in a drawer somewhere; they came with a pillow someone gifted me with. They are pink satin. I'll look for them and stick them in an envelope and send to you! He! He!

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #7808 on:** November 30, 2015, 12:39:33 PM »

I have never seen people's interest in "zombie" movies. I think they are grotesque, not to mention stupid. Horror type movies turn me off also; i.e. Friday the 13th, anything in that genre. Now Hitchcockian movies I love,
Marnie, The Birds, etc. The only movie that ever really, really scared me was the original "Psycho". I couldn't sleep for days after seeing it. Scary books I can live with, like Stephen King's.

marjifay · « **Reply #7809 on:** November 30, 2015, 12:41:03 PM »

Thanks, Rosemary. I put The Secret of Crickley Hall and London Spy on my Netflix queue. Altho, I have a feeling your daughter was right about the acting in Crickley Hall being ridiculous since the film received only a 6.9 rating at IMDB. London Spy looks better with an 8.2 rating.

I agree with you about zombie films. Don't think they are scary, and I wonder why the young people like them so much.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7810 on:** December 01, 2015, 08:46:52 AM »

Am avoiding zombie movies since I always considered zombies as basically stupid.. Ugh.
Hmm, one time when I was having gum surgery, he gave me a pill to take an our before the surgery, I was out in 15 minutes, my husband on the other hand turned into the clown of the world with his.. Reacted differently to a lot of people. But I am so freaking scared of the dentist and then had brittle teeth to boot. Sigh.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7811 on:** December 01, 2015, 11:11:07 AM »

I'm reading "The Marshal Makes His Report" by Magdalene Nabb. It is one of The Marshal Guarnaccia Mystery Series set in Florence, Italy. It is so different than Donna Leon's Venice mysteries and is about an unusual Marshall in the regular Italian police. Big slow Marshall Guarnaccia--so different than Brunetti, but just as likable.

JoanK · « **Reply #7812 on:** December 01, 2015, 05:10:21 PM »

haven't read a Nabb book in years! Have to look for them! He's always grouching about the weather in Florence! I don't care: I have wonderful memories of the one time I was there.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n/magdalen-nabb/

I love reading about the authors! Nabb picked up everything and moved to Florence knowing no one and not speaking the language! why didn't I think of that? And she's written lots of books since I lost track of the series.

Steph · « **Reply #7813 on:** December 02, 2015, 08:35:47 AM »

I am reading The Magic Line by Elizabeth Gunn.. A police procedural of sorts and it is really good.. New author for mel.

FlaJean · « **Reply #7814 on:** December 02, 2015, 11:50:29 AM »

I enjoyed reading about Nabb. I can see I am way behind in this series.

I enjoy a police procedural. Will check out Elizabeth Gunn.

Steph · « **Reply #7815 on:** December 03, 2015, 08:30:31 AM »

She has two different series. The one I read is the smaller of the series and is about a female policeman.

JoanK · « **Reply #7816 on:** December 03, 2015, 06:35:35 PM »

I love reading about these authors! Gunn is 89 , and has been "a private pilot, sky diver, SCUBA diver, and liveaboard sailor." She started writing mysteries in her seventies, and started the new series in her eighties. Makes me feel really lazy!

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/elizabeth-gunn/

Judy Laird · « **Reply #7817 on:** December 03, 2015, 07:52:02 PM »

I too am terrified of the dentist

MaryPage · « **Reply #7818 on:** December 04, 2015, 10:49:07 AM »

Me, three.

And Joan, I share your guilt about being lazy. Lazy AND good for nothin' is what I call myself whenever I read about these Wonder Women!

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #7819 on:** December 04, 2015, 10:59:25 AM »

I love my dentist! I have had a string of useless ones till we moved to Edinburgh and I just looked up 'NHS dentists' on line. This one seemed to have good reviews. It is a practice of 4 youngish dentists - as it is near the student area, most of their clientele is under 25 apart from me. Ian is so nice, so patient and so kind. Best dentist I've ever had, and as my teeth are pretty rubbish I feel immensely reassured that I can get an appointment with him when I need one. The practice even has a really lovely receptionist - the last one I was at had the receptionist from hell, whose mission in life seemed to be to deny you access - even my dentist was scared of her. The one I have now goes out of her way to help, always calls you back when she's said she will, and is altogether perfect.

It's even a nice walk across The Meadows (large area of grass much loved by residents) to get there!

Rosemary

JoanK · « **Reply #7820 on:** December 04, 2015, 02:40:45 PM »

You are so lucky. I loved my dentist in Maryland: he always put on Mozart when I came because he knew I liked it. But then I moved!

MaryPage · « **Reply #7821 on:** December 04, 2015, 06:17:50 PM »

Oh, I am almost in love with MY dentist, and I have told his wife so. She is his receptionist. Well, if he were MY husband, I would be his receptionist, too. He IS a hunk, and I'll bet many others of his female patients have told her that.

It is not the dentist. It is from the point of opening my mouth on that I dread and hate. Or mebbe from the moment the assistant puts that bib on me?

Steph · « **Reply #7822 on:** December 05, 2015, 08:38:47 AM »

MaryPage, yes that is the point for me. Two of my best friends were both dentists over the years and we saw them socially, etc, it was in the chair. One of them, Bruce decided I could sit in the chair in his private office and try that to examine the teeth and I was just fine until he touched the first tooth..Sigh..

Frybabe · « **Reply #7823 on:** December 06, 2015, 07:14:06 AM »

I found an interesting book on Project Gutenberg called Minute Mysteries by Harold Austin Ripley. In a few paragraphs you are given all the info the story detective has, then you try to solve the mystery yourself. There is a link to the answers at the back of the book. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50603

Steph · « **Reply #7824 on:** December 06, 2015, 09:02:26 AM »

The Ellery Queen little magazine used to have those. I had forgotten all about them.. Thanks for mentioning..

Frybabe · « **Reply #7825 on:** December 06, 2015, 11:38:00 AM »

OH, Ellery Queen. I used to watch the TV series, several of them, but I never got around to getting the magazine. Wikipedia has quite a write-up on the evolution of Ellery Queen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellery_Queen

Steph · « **Reply #7826 on:** December 07, 2015, 08:43:51 AM »

My Dad used to always give me a subscription for my birthday. Loved the short stories, etc.

JoanK · « **Reply #7827 on:** December 07, 2015, 04:12:40 PM »

I used to love the "minute Mysteries." they used to appear as a paragraph at the bottom of a page at the end of the short story. There was always a clue buried in them, and (as I remember) I usually found it. (a bit of competition between PatH and me: she always found it. Too bad she got diverted to Science Fiction instead.

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Steph · « **Reply #7828 on:** December 08, 2015, 08:46:43 AM »

I really did like the Elizabeth Gunn, but the only ones I can find are her other series.. Hmm, guess I better try one of them.

JoanK · « **Reply #7829 on:** December 09, 2015, 12:24:08 AM »

I read Gunn's first in the Sarah Burke series, "Cool in Tucson",and thought it good. Have the first in the other series in my TBR pile.

Steph · « **Reply #7830 on:** December 09, 2015, 08:17:20 AM »

I have been reading fantasy the past few days.. Patricia Briggs.. her lates in the Alpha and Omega series. Excellent writer.

JoanK · « **Reply #7831 on:** December 09, 2015, 05:10:33 PM »

Here she is, Did you mean to to post this in Sci Fi?

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/patricia-briggs/

Steph · « **Reply #7832 on:** December 10, 2015, 08:37:33 AM »

absent minded me.. yes, I did, but then again,, I am reading The Nightingale on my Kindle, not quite sure where to put it, but it is good.

marjifay · « **Reply #7833 on:** December 13, 2015, 01:39:51 PM »

I'm reading a really good one by
Daniel Silva - The Kill Artist. Finally getting around to trying his Gabriel Allon series; heard that it's best to start with the first book. I think I'm in love with Allon. I'm amazed at the research Silva must have had to do. I couldn't believe one of his characters talking about how the Zionist Jews had slaughtered/obliterated a small Arab town in Palestine, Deir Yassin, apparently as a warning to other Arabs that if they did not leave Palestine, they would meet a similar fate. But Wikipedia writes about it as a true event. Hard to understand how the Jews could have been so cruel after knowing what had happened to their friends and families under the Nazis.

Also Silva must have done a lot of traveling, as he writes about places and neiborhoods you'd have to have been there to know about in Amsterdam, France, London, Lisbon, and other places. Makes for an interesting read, and altho the book is fairly long, it keeps me turning pages to see what will happen next. I'll read more in this series.

Marj

Steph · « **Reply #7834 on:** December 14, 2015, 08:40:47 AM »

Oh Marj, I love Gabriel.. Daniel Silva is a favorite writer and Gabriel is a truly complicated character.. I envy you just starting a wonderful series.. It is so much fun when you find a new to you author..
I am reading Hearse and Buggy buy Laura Bradford. I realized when I started that I had read one of the later books in the series, and this is the first one, but it is good.. A bit cozy, but still fun

marjifay · « **Reply #7835 on:** December 14, 2015, 09:32:37 AM »

Thanks, Steph, for the recommendation of Laura Bradford's Amish mystery series. Hadn't heard of it. It gets a good rating by Amazon readers. Clever title, Hearse and Buggy and the town's name, Heavenly. I just checked the internet, and apparently there really is a Heavenly, Pennsylvania; shows some photos of the town.
Put the book on hold at my library.

Marj

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #7836 on:** December 15, 2015, 08:08:29 AM »

I've just received my copy of 'Summertime: All the Cats are Bored' (Philippe Georget) has anyone read it? I bought it mostly on the basis of its wonderful title!

Rosemary

Steph · « **Reply #7837 on:** December 15, 2015, 08:16:25 AM »

Love the title, never heard of it.. let us know how it goes.

nlhome · « **Reply #7838 on:** December 15, 2015, 07:40:50 PM »

I need a suggestion or two - a mystery book title starting with the letter "U" for a reading challenge. I need to read it before the end of the year, which may not be possible given the schedule we have over the holidays, but I'd like to do it if possible. I started with a search on our library's online catalog, but that's not an easy process. Would anyone have a suggested mystery that starts with U?

maryz · « **Reply #7839 on:** December 15, 2015, 07:50:25 PM »

Has Sue Grafton gotten to "U"?

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