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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Book surprises!

« on: April 25, 2020, 02:14:57 pm »

I can't remember what book it was, but I found a book in a bookstore, brand new, with the cover printed upside down!

I checked all the other copies, and they were right side up. So I bought it, thinking it might be worth something.

The surprise came when I got home, and realized that you could just take the jacket off and put back on right side up...

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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Mystery Movies for Self-Quarantine

« on: March 28, 2020, 01:09:49 pm »

Knives Out is available to rent on Apple TV right now for $6.00. Also on Youtube for $6.00.

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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes

« on: March 28, 2020, 11:12:25 am »

Talking about dying messages in The Tragedy of X, by Ellery Queen (originally as by Barnaby Ross), Drury Lane says:

"... there are no limits to which the human mind cannot soar in that unique, god-like instant before the end of life."

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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Sherlock Holmes' 166th Birthday - January 6, 2020 - It's a Party!

« on: January 04, 2020, 10:31:21 am »

"The Man With the Twisted Lip" blew my mind when I was a kid.

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What I'm Reading / Re: My latest read is...

« on: January 04, 2020, 09:59:14 am »

I don't see a lot of old books on here but I do like them. I'm working my way through Margaret Millar and just finished the amazing A Stranger in My Grave.

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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Bookmarks?

« on: January 03, 2020, 10:14:02 am »

I have so many bookmarks and I have almost never used one in a book.

For some reason I can pick up any book I've been reading and pretty quickly flip to the page I was on.

... does anyone else do this?

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Favorites / Re: ISO Favorite books or series for young readers

« on: June 12, 2019, 09:35:28 am »

For YA, I always recommend The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. It won the Newbery Medal.

Great mystery for YA and older readers too!

https://www.amazon.com/Westing-Game-Puffin-Modern-Classics/dp/014240120X

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Top Ten Lists / Top 10 Agatha Christie

« on: June 11, 2019, 07:32:35 am »

This is my Top 10 list of Agatha Christies:

(I prefer Miss Marple to Poirot)

A Murder is Announced
The Moving Finger
Nemesis
Murder at the Vicarage
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The ABC Murders
4:50 from Paddington
Sleeping Murder
Murder for Christmas
The Body in the Library

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Welcome and General Discussion / Re: Say Hi and Introduce Yourself

« on: June 11, 2019, 07:22:44 am »

Hi, I'm happy to find this place!

Are there any other Agatha Christie fans here? I have read almost all of her books and I've never found anything else as good.

I'm going to put my favorites in the Top Ten topic.

AgathaC