On (15 Dec 96) Fred Runk wrote to Maureen Goldman...
 FR> re Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE
 MG> I've had a different one of Collins' books for years.  Will
 MG> probably never read it.  Right now I'm reading a mystery by
 FR> Another of his more popular works is THE MOONSTONE.  Could that be the
 FR> one? Why do you think you will never read it?
 Yep, that's it.  I have a couple hundred books that I probably
 won't ever touch.  They just keep accumulating.  That one has no
 priority.
 I'm also not sure that I'll ever eat all the stuff in the
 freezer.  Someday I should simply stop buying food (and books)
 and see what I actually have in the house.
 MG> Robert Barnard writing as Bernard Bastable.  The detective is
 MG> the 65-year-old Mozart, whose life went in a different direction
 MG> when he was a a child so that he ended up being raised in
 MG> England.  It's kind of fun.
 FR> Sort of an alternative universe tale?
 It isn't a fantasy other than that one detail.  Or at least not
 any other deviations that I've gleaned with my limited
 historical knowledge.  So I guess that the answer is yes, but
 not in any obtrusive way.
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