-=> Quoting Polly Fitt-Jones to Robert White <=-
Hello Polly,
 PF> Burley writes almost contemporay novels.  I always get the feeling
 PF> that I am back in the late 40's or maybe 50's when I read his books.
Sounds kind of like the setting of the Insp. Felse series that Ellis Peters
also wrote, you may want to try one of those.
Another of my favorite British mystery series is by Simon Brett. Actually he
writes at least two seperate series. The one I like best has Charles Paris, a
chronically unemployed and alchoholic actor, as the main character. The other
has Mrs. Pargater (spelling?) as the protagonist, she is a lady of
undetermined age and a slightly shady background. Both books have an 
bundance
of wry humor, but I particularly like Paris' stumbling, bumbling manner; as 
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usually quite literally stumbles over bodies.
I'm currently reading 'A Reconstructed Corpse', an early Charles Paris novel
that I somehow have previously missed. As with most series, it is best to 
ead
them in order, but you really miss very little if you read them at random.
 PF> Some one on this BBS mentioned "The Beekeeper's Apprentice" which
 PF> sounds like Sherlock Holmes....Conan Doyle introduced me to the
I really like 'Beekeeper', which added a new dimension to the Sherlockian
story. Some didn't like the idea of using THE DETECTIVE as a sringboard for a
series, but it worked for me.  I have the second in that series, 'A Monstrous
Regime of Women' currently in my TBR queue.
On this side of the pond, my favorite series is currently the Sharon McCone
series by Marcia Muller. McCone is a pretty tough PI, and Muller writes
stories that hook me from the start and carry through to the end.  My 
avorite
title of that series is 'Till The Butchers Cut Him Down.'
I'm also partial to mysteries set in South Florida, but I'll leave those to
another msg.
TTYL,
Bob 8-{)
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