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 SH> Fred Runk (1:300/105) wrote to Dennis Mccunney at 13:17 on 19 Oct 1997:
 
 FR> Who, if anyone, would be your favorite writer from the Golden Age
 FR> of the Mystery?
 IK> Golden Age?  I've only recently moved into Mystery "Fandom" 
 IK> myself.  I'm not sure what the Golden Age is.  I'll just go 
 IK> for "Old" Mystery.  
 IK> Sherlock Holmes, of course.
He and Poe's Dupin both fixated me in the cerebral form of the detective or
mystery story.  Given that bias, I tend to lean toward the British writers
when choosing a work.
FINISHED:  Marcel Proust.     Vol. I,  SWANN'S WAY
FINISHED:  Greg Bear.         HEGIRA
FINISHED:  Matsuo Basho.      THE NARROW ROAD TO THE NORTH
CR: Anne Perry. CAIN HIS BROTHER, 142/404
CR: Robert Phillips, ed. TRIUMPH OF THE NIGHT, 174/366, ghost story coll.
CR: Jack Finney. TIME AND AGAIN, 56/398
Email: fredr@gci-net.com
... MONEY TALKS ...   but all mine ever says is GOODBYE!
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