Sleuth Home - Message Boards - The Gumshoe Lounge


0 0
~ sleuths bookself~
  <<First Page  |  <Previous Next>  |  Last Page>>  

deleted_detective7955
deleted_detective7955

May-16-2004 16:41

Hi any body has read or is a fan of Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, Trixie bendel? Puhleez post!
P.S. If so do ya have a fave?
A book lover - Mag

Replies

Madame TBird
Madame TBird
Well-Connected

Jan-12-2005 10:44

Oh my we have about 8 of the ND games. Love it! Do you have Blackmoor Manor? It's fun. Can't wait for next one :} Have you played Indiana Jones or Tombraider? They're cool. I'm working on Syberia right now, it's a lot like ND. At last level with it. Also playing Hobbit on Gamecube. That is too fun & I put my Syberia on hold until finish it. This is why I haven't been on here playing Sleuth much lately. Okay I admit I am a RPG junkie!

calalta
calalta
Well-Connected

Jun-26-2005 20:23

This is a very good, and under appreciated thread. Many of us who play Sleuth also enjoy detective stores when reading or on Television, what are some of the newbies favorites?

Sheldon
Sheldon

Jun-27-2005 04:36

I have wondered why there was no mystery story thread. Than you for starting one. I have become a fan of Laura Lippman. Her character, Tess Monaghan is one of those modern mystery heroes that has a life the reader gets interested in that carries over from book to book. She is also a local Baltimorian and I feel like Tess is my neighbor. It's fun to see her eating at Bertha's and waiting in the holiday traffic on the Bay Bridge, just like me.

Are there any mystery writers using locals in your area?

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Jun-27-2005 08:35

I use to collect the Harlequin Romance Novels, by ordering them through the mail at which time the company would send me one free crystal wine glass. Did anyone else here do this? I had a nice set of wine glasses. I also loved reading Daniell Steels romance novels, as well as the movies. In highschool I enjoyed doing an essay in English about Edgar Allen Poe, and I watched all his movies on TV. In the last few years I started collecting the Nancy Drew PC games. Out of the series of eleven games I liked "Ghostdogs of Moonlake," & "Blackmoor Manor," which gave my heart a jump a few times...lol. I highly recommend these games, and in fact all of them are good, except for the first one called, "Secrets Can Kill," which isn't as realistic. Recently I purchased "The Silver Earring," featuring Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson and really enjoyed it. I have already played it twice..lol. I am presently searching for more mystery games at Ebay to buy, but there's so many. I would appreicate some recommendations similar to those I've mentioned above. Thank you.

Makensie Brewer
Makensie Brewer
Super Steeper

Jun-27-2005 08:50

Daru, I used to get them Harlequin Romance novels by mail too! I got bored with them tho because they all ended the same...happily ever after lol So now, I only read mystery books. More exciting to me :)

Angora
Angora
Well-Connected

Jun-27-2005 10:05

Encyclopedia Brown was my hero when I was a kid. I still like the "solve the mystery yourself" genre. I've been trying to find more of the Hawkeye and Amy series, but it seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. I liked Nancy Drew too, but I think she faints too much. I've played a few of the ND games and liked them; my favorite so far is the Red Hand. I've read all the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, and right now I'm into Agatha Christie.

Angora
Angora
Well-Connected

Jun-27-2005 10:06

Oh yeah, I also read the Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, and the Bobbsey twins. I have a few of those lying around somewhere. I liked them.

Zakuro
Zakuro

Jun-27-2005 12:00

I devored many Agatha Christie novels when I was a teenager, along with some Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin.

I also read Chandler's The Big Sleep and it is an excellent novel.

marylou
marylou

Jun-27-2005 12:47

I remember reading Nancy Drew but then decided that the Hardy Boys were more cool. Mainly because the stories had more life or death situations to make my heart skips faster. (As incidently the few lines in every book describing the brothers did. Hmmm. Think I'll blame that one on teenage hormones.

Currently I love Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, Patricia Cornwell (the twist in the latest book being real good but not saying in case anyone hasnn't read that far), Quentin Jardine and counting down the days to Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince.

DaRu
DaRu
Well-Connected

Jun-27-2005 18:40

MB, I don't read romance novels now, but I do watch every movie of Daniell Steels. Angora, since I haven't read any of Nancy Drew's books, I don't recall her fainting in the games..hehe, however, she's always getting knocked out, tied up,locked in a room, or something like this, and then you have to find a way out...which is exciting. Then at the end of each game you always prepare for a big moment when you have to defeat the one you've been sneaking around trying to find, that's been following you, and now has captured you, but you've got to find a way out quick, so you can capture them....whew...this is the fun part....THE ENDING. ..lol. Well, I think everyone knows I'm a huge ND fan. My BIO doesn't indicate I am..hehe.

  <<First Page  |  <Previous Next>  |  Last Page>>  

[ You must login to reply ]