** From Fred Runk to Dennis Mccunney on 19 Oct 97  13:17:00
 ** Re: Agatha Christie readers?
 DM> Christie bores me, period.  I admire her technical skill in creating
 DM> mysteries and providing all the clues the reader needs to solve it,
 DM> but I've never been able to take an interest in her characters, and
 DM> her writing style reminds me of the old joke about the *really* dry
 DM> martini, which you produce by waving the unopened Vermouth bottle
 DM> over the gin in the glass.
 FR> "Every body to her own taste," said the old lady as she kissed the
 FR> cow.  
 FR> Who, if anyone, would be your favorite writer from the Golden Age of
 FR> the Mystery?
 Hard to say.  I'm nowhere near as well read in mysteries as I am in SF,
 and don't have a good feel for the history and development of the
 field.  There are some writers I've discovered that I like and read
 anything by, but I've never read a number of authors who are probably
 considered classic.
 What counts as the "Golden Age" of mysteries?
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