JM> I agree -- I took a hiatus from reading Upfield a while ago because
JM> I didn't want to charge through all the Bony books and then have no
JM> more to read.
Finally, someone who understands that feeling!  I think people approach
mysteries in much the same way as they do a box of chocolates.  There
are those who keep going until they finish them, eating the best ones
first.  Then there are those who save the best for last and try to make
the box last as long as possible. [ Apologies to Forrest Gump.  ;) ]
JM> And I'm facing the same situation now with Ellis Peters' non-Brother
JM> Cadfael mysteries.  I have almost read all the Felse mysteries and
JM> pretty soon there won't be any more.  Ditto the non-Felse books. 
Ooh. That's a problem. I haven't managed to get hold of all her
non-Cadfael. I think I'm still missing a Felse or two, and some of the
Edith Pargeter historicals.
JM> Where do you go when you've run out of Ngaio Marsh and Josephine Tey
JM> *and* Ellis Peters' modern mysteries?  (Back to Peter Lovesey, I
JM> guess, but what do I do when I've run out of *his* books as well?)
I think I have to admit I ran out of Marsh long ago.  I keep hoping I
missed one somehow, but that's a false hope.  Ran out of Tey for sure,
not to mention Crispin and Allingham.  I have a ways to go on Lovesey,
but he doesn't hold my interest quite as well as the others.  There's
always Ray Harrison, of course, and there are still a few Wentworths
left to find, maybe an Innes or two, and Hazel Holt is still writing.
My to-read shelf is overflowing, but there aren't so many hazelnut
creams as before. ;)
... No, the sheep makes the wool; I make the yarn.
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