-=> Quoting Fred Runk to Robert White <=-
 RW> 'The Holy Thief' by Ellis Peters.  I'm coming to the end of the
 FR> I didn't like the PBS Mystery! series because I just can't see Jacoby
 FR> as Brother Cadfael.  He's a great actor, loved him in I CLAUDIUS many
 FR> years ago and in other works, but he isn't convincing as a
 FR> rough-and-tough mercenary from the 12th century.
I felt the same way, the character as portrayed by Jacoby just didn't gibe
with Cadfael in the books. We both probably would have enjoyed the TV series
better if we hadn't read the books.  My favorites of the PBS Mystery! shows
are the Morse episodes. John Thaw captures the essence of Morse as Colin
Dexter seems to have written him.
 RW> 'Zombies of the Gene Pool' by Sharon McCrumb.  I read her earlier
 FR> Many in the SF Fido conference who have read it consider it more of a
 FR> parody of SF conventions and fans than a true mystery.
It may be a parody, but having seen a bit of our local and some US Star Trek
'beam-ins' on the TV, it doesn't seem that much over done of the actual
conventions.
Just finished 'The Harry Chronicles' by Allan Pedrazas. This is Pedrazas'
first book, and it's pretty good for a first effort. It's set in South
Florida, which is one of my favorite locales to read about in mysteries.
Perhaps this will be the start of another series.
Currently reading 'Death of an Irish Sea Wolf' by Bartholomew Gill.  It's one
of his Peter McGarr series, set in Ireland, and steeped in local lore &
history.  I generally enjoy Gill's books and this one the best I've read so
far.  It's kind of a police procedural so you might like it.
Just finished a Donald E. Westlake book called 'What's the Worst That Could
Happen'.  It's a Dortmunder caper with the usual cast of characters that 
loat
in and out this series. I didn't like this one as much as some of the others,
but it is an amusing read.
James W. Hall has a series set in South Florida that I thought was going to
become a successor to John D. McDonald's Travis McGee series. Hall's main
character is also a loner who lives his life to his own rules, and inevitably
drawn to tilting at windmills, saving damsels in distress and righting 
rongs.
Unfortunately, in his latest caper 'Buzzcut' he stretches credibility all out
of shape. Just too many contrived coincidences for my taste, hopefully he 
ill
get back on track in his next effort.
I've read a number of Josephine Tey's books over the years, and always like
them. 'Brat Farrar' and 'The Franchise Affair' rate pretty high with me, and
my latest read 'The Man in the Queue' is also enjoyable. Despite having been
written over 40 years ago, I don't find them that dated. 'The Man in the
Queue' reminds me of Christie's 'The Mirror Cracked' but that didn't distract
from the story for me.
TTYL,
Bob 8-{)
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