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echo: mystery
to: BELLE BIJOU
from: SUZZE TIERNAN
date: 1996-07-16 19:26:00
subject: Scrabble

-=> Quoting Belle Bijou to Suzze Tiernan <=-
 >(My first by her - very very funny), and "New Orleans Requiem" by D.J.
 >Donaldson. Betty sent me a signed copy of that one - it involves
 >Scrabble! It was very good. I also read a book that involved a murder,
 BB> Scrabble!  I'll have to find this one.  When my mother was 80 she
 BB> started her own bbs - Dinah's ScrabbleMania - devoted almost totally
 BB> to Scrabble.  She allowed only the most competitive players.  When she
 BB> died, I 'inherited' the bbs and have run it for the past 2 1/2 years.
 BB> I once toyed with the idea of writing a mystery with Scrabble as a
 BB> theme, but thought that it was wildly improbable that anyone would get
 BB> killed over a Scrabble game.  Now I know better.  I've had players so
 BB> fiercely competitive that they's probably kill their own mothers for a
 BB> high score.
I have noticed your origin line many times, as I am a BIG Scrabble fan.
I play online daily and hate to lose!! The book was very good too.
... He who laughs last probably didn't get the joke.
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