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echo: mystery
to: HELEN FLEISCHER
from: JAN MURPHY
date: 1996-07-30 08:45:00
subject: Re: Preferred Authors

[running out of an author's work]
 > 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.
 
I have most of the non-Brother C books now, thanks to a friend who makes 
regular trips to England and usually brings back a dozen books for me each 
time.  I think there was just *one* of the mysteries he couldn't find on this 
trip.  It's hard to tell because we were cobbling together a list from info 
here (your list, I believe it was, and if so, I thank you again), the library 
computer, and the books listed in the front of all the other books we had in 
hand.
 
I haven't even started collecting the Pargeter historicals -- we decided to 
leave those for the next expedition.
 
 > 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.
 
There's a collected stories volume (edited by Douglas Greene, if my memory is 
correct).  I just stumbled on the listing on one of the recent microfiches 
and it seems to have a different title now, but I suspect the contents are 
the same.  My edition is titled 'The Collected Stories of Ngaio Marsh' but 
the new edition takes the title from the essay about Alleyn.  So there's one 
I found (actually my husband spotted it for me) after I thought I had run 
ut.
 
 > Ran out of Tey for sure,
 > not to mention Crispin and Allingham.
 
For some reason, I still haven't gotten into Crispin and Allingham. 
 Tried Allingham after the Peter D. adaptations on MYSTERY (nice to 
see him getting to do something besides Doctor Who and Tristan), but it 
didn't click.
 
 >  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.
 
Any recommendations?  I still haven't tried Wentworth, and am only vaguely 
aware of the others.
 
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