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Mystery Fiction
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Mexico Joe
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Jan-16-2005 14:12
I was just curious if any folks here read good mystery fiction. I haven't read much, though I've borrowed and read quite a few of Tony Hillerman's novels. He writes murder mysteries set in a Navajo reservation with recurring characters Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, and he has a nive simple, fluid writing style I enjoy.
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Saxon Joshua
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Jan-17-2005 16:24
I'm a fan of the classics - Sherlock Holmes and Philip Marlowe. If you've never read Chandler's Marlowe, I particularly recommend 'The Lady in the Lake'. Brilliant!
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Kitten Bitten
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Jan-17-2005 16:30
If you want to get to know a bit about the origins of the murder mystery genre you should read Poe.
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Vic Sage
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Feb-6-2005 16:16
No doubt on the classics... Always great to pick up Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe. But a contemporary favorite of mine is the work of Dick Francis. They feature varying, everyman heroes, but every book involves British horse racing in some way.
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Vic Sage
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Feb-6-2005 16:20
No doubt on the classics... Always great to pick up Sherlock Holmes or Philip Marlowe. But a contemporary favorite of mine is the work of Dick Francis. They feature varying, everyman heroes, but every book involves British horse racing in some way.
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Betty Barnes
Well-Connected
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Feb-8-2005 16:29
I enjoy Patricia Cornwell!
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jstkdn
Well-Connected
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Feb-8-2005 17:10
Dan Brown, although not a classic type mystery. And not so much a who's dunnit, but more a "what is it." They come highly recommended.
Angels and Demons, and the Da Vinci code are the BEST ones. The Da Vinci code actually sold more books in the Netherlands this year, then the new translation of the bible that just came out.
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sunny
Lady of Shadows
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Feb-9-2005 10:34
i love:
sara paretsky
elizabethh george
laurie r. king
patricia cornwell
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marylou
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Feb-10-2005 10:11
I love Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton's Alphabet Mysteries, Arthur Canon Doyle, Agatha Christie and Ruth Rendall. I also still read the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. (Though I do hide them in a copy of Harry Potter so as not to embarras my son!)
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