06-26-2012, 10:36 AM | #61 | |
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06-26-2012, 11:03 AM | #62 |
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What a strange thing to think. The "classics" of British crime fiction: Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Ruth Rendell, P.D. James, etc. (all women writers - I've often wondered why that is?) - all still sell extremely well. It's my favourite reading genre.
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06-26-2012, 12:28 PM | #63 | |
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Providing it's not "The Big Four", dig out your Poirot book and read it. |
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06-27-2012, 04:37 AM | #64 |
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What does the "Big Four" consist of?
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06-27-2012, 04:43 AM | #65 |
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06-27-2012, 05:12 AM | #66 |
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06-27-2012, 05:33 AM | #67 |
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Is Cat Among the Pigeons good? I recently grabbed a couple of Christie hardcovers from my parents and this was one of them. The title is familiar (so was probably a movie), and I was thinking of reading it at some stage.
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06-27-2012, 07:52 AM | #68 |
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I started to read The Secret of Chimneys last night. It is one of five "Superintendent Battle" novels, this debut published in 1925. Other titles in the series: The Seven Dials Mystery (1929), Cards on the Table (1936 where Battle is alongside Poirot), Murder is Easy (1939) and Towards Zero (1944).
Again, ebook users with access to Overdrive public library services may have many Christie titles available to them from their local library. That is definitely the case in Toronto. |
06-27-2012, 05:05 PM | #69 | |
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I personally prefer Ngaio Marsh to Agatha Christie (ducking - sorry, but if we all love the same author, there'll only be one successful author, right?). Are Marsh's books available in ebook?
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06-28-2012, 02:17 AM | #71 |
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Yes, all of Ngaio Marsh's books are available as ebooks (in the UK at least).
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06-29-2012, 01:47 PM | #72 |
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Deleted entire message - I was told that the site I'd found was a pirate site and I do not want to support or imply support or encourage pirates.
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Usually, if a deal looks to good to be true, it is. Don't be fooled by such sites into thinking that just because you've paid money for the ebooks that you aren't pirating the books. You're just paying some crooks for the privilege of pirating them. Last edited by pdurrant; 06-29-2012 at 03:01 PM. |
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