h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I found two McCrumb books in a shop called "The Bookaholic". I'm reading MacPherson's Lament at the present time. It goes back and forth between the Civil War and present day.

"The Bookaholic"

Look, what I just found, trying to figure out the name of an Australian author I used to read (Arthur Upfield) - http://www.crimedownunder.com/index.html

I just won another seven McCrumbs on EBAY--grand total-$7.00 including shipping.
I haven't read them either. They are her earlier books in the Elle McPherson series.
I think I'm going to start checking EBAY regularly for reading material.

Lady C.

I slept over at my mother's house after her 75th birthday, and of course I had to read to be able to fall asleep. The choice fell on Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey in Oxford (for the 10th time perhaps) - and now I have to read the next, the continuation, which I have on my own shelves...

She writes very well and knows about the life of different classes of people and different places in England. Then there are all the quotes...

I wonder if British pupils have to learn quotes by heart from first form? Danes don't do literary quotes...

My name is tartaronne, and I'm a bookaholic

tartaronne, have you read the Roderick Allyn series by Ngaio Marsh? Dorothy Sayers fans usually like those, too.

How much are you having to pay for shipping, Lady C? And have you tried the used book sellers that do business with Amazon? A lot of times you can get books for a penny.

Yes, Hypatia - I think I've read them all. My mother and father found a mutual interest in detective stories right from the beginning of their aquaintance and my mother still have all of the good books they bought, mostly second hand.

There is also (blank memory) ... with the fat detective Nero Wolfe who grows orchids and his helper Archie Goodwin, set in New York, I believe, and Simenon and P.D. James and Ruth Rendell and.....

Rex Stout. I loved those. And P. D. James is probably the best mystery novelist ever. Amazingly talented.

The seven books were $3.50 and shipping was the same--$7.00 total for 7 books conditions rated very good to new. Granted they are paper backs, but they take up less room on the shelf and have the same words in them.

My name is Lady C. and I'm a bookaholic.

Sounds like a good deal, Lady C.

back to w*rk

It's been a while since I read a good detective story. No, that's a lie, I read one of the earliest recently - The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins. I do like Collins. The books are hefty (hardly surprising, as he knew Dickens), but well worth reading. It's fascinating to see the roots of the genre.

Wilkie Collins, the root of the genre. Promising .

Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet, where do they belong? I like Chandler's inventive language. As far as I remember Santra is a fan of him as well.

In another thread we have talked about Thorne Smith - quite another but equally entertaining genre.

I've just been to the library to look for Wilkie Collins. They have some paper editions of Moonstone in Danish in the magasin (which I have reserved) and quite a few online editions for download.

I've never read a book online but it may come to that some day. In the section of English book they had a Dorothy L. Sayers novel as a sound book read by Michael Carmichael - or something like that.

When I was very young, in my twenties, I on the radio heard Richard Burton read/play Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood - that was truely amazing. One of the programmes then had an hour or two with programmes in English - both educational and cultural.

Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammet are pretty much the founders of the US pulp type detective story, I think. A very different sort of style compared to the earliest (mostly British) types. I read Gaston Leroux's Mystery of the Yellow Room recently, which was another interesting look at the beginnings of the genre.

Michael Carmichael? What a wonderfully old-fashioned name.

Mind you, I'm not sure if I remember the name correctly. Isn't there an actor with such a name - or close? I don't do names (except for authors).