Member: quartzite

Hey, if you're "into" alt country, ever listen to Jann Browne, Kevin Welch,
Kieran Kane?

posted by tros at 10:11 pm (EST) on Dec 16, 2009

OK Thanks for explainig it to me. I wasn't aware of this at the time.

Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 11:37 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2009

OK, now that explains it to me. Yea, I agree it does seem to have an air of mystery surrounding it like some Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes Mystery you read trying to figure out who the killer is. Did anyone else catch this too besides me? Thanks for letting me know what happened.

Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 9:02 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2009

Hey Quartzite,

I was just wondering what happened to Chapter 12 of The Haunted Soda? It seems to have ended with Chapter 11 & then jumped completely over to Chapter 13. Did I miss something here?

Thanks,
Beatles1964

posted by beatles1964 at 2:06 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2009

Great use of the hyphen in message# 179 of The Haunted Soda!! That is almost as good as the fun that we had with "moonshine" a few weeks ago.

Where did you reside in Washington State? I am in Tacoma. Julianne

posted by KnittyGritty at 6:49 am (EST) on Jan 21, 2009

Quartize:
Please take notice that I have posted my message again. I did this because I noticed that you came up with a "murder mystery in North Dakota". I do appreciate so very much all that WEB SURFING. I would like to find out more especially about the hardcover image of the GOLD DOVE on the front cover. As you will see in the new posting I have been searching some 46 years for this book with the image of the dove. Actually there were a few other exactly like it that I read in 1959. The only other clear thing I remember is that one story had two people waiting in a cemetary at night behind a row of gravestones for the murderer.Also this one author was a women.
I do hope this will not continue to be an inconvenience to you.

Most Sincerely Ra22--rantonelli@cox.net

posted by ra22 at 6:30 pm (EST) on Oct 20, 2008

quartzite:
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately it stopped afte the word"BUT". I have to appoligize for my old age and fading skills. I can only remember that the mystery was a gray hardcover with the image of that GOLD DOVe on the front cover.
I have searched and researched many favorable authors from that period but could never get anything on the endings of hardcover images. I did come ac ross an interesting fact from several sources. Many book dealers and book stores would put thier own personal stamp or logo on books they sold.
I just remembered something that may be of interest. I came upon a novel by the american mystery writer Wilson Tucker. He wrote a novel in 1951 called "The Dove". It ended behind an old mansion and behind an old gravemarker butr the problem was that it had to do with some characters in Hollywood CA. The paper jacket showed a huge bird holding a man in it's beak and there was no gold dove image on the hardcover itself. I was also told that this could have been a later or earlier edition or a crime club edition but I could find nothing on this.
Incidently I just wish to state that all this information is strictly because I wrote down everything I came across online,not trusting my memory, and this is what I am referring to now.
Well here I go again-antoher bit on information for you. In 1923 the publishing company W.W.Norton incorperated and used a SEAGULL for thier logo. It was always located on the spine of the book. The only author of any significance they published was PHEOBE ATWOOD TAYLOR. Her stories all took place in the Cape Cod to Boston Mass. area. These stories were more comical in nature. Some of the other authors I researched were Dorothy Miles Disney who wrote 47 novels and until 1960 they all took place here in the northeast New England area. Dorothy Cameron Disney(no relation} but She only wrote nine novels. Kathleen Moore Knight wrote similar novels. Finally Mabel Seely. Here novels took place in and near Her hometown of Minnesota.
I do sincerely hope this is not a burden to you. I just like to read the old mysterys and this one I read in 1959 was excellant.
I assure you that I wqill not become a "PEST" or "nusience" and will always await any reply from you. I do hope you might keep me in mind from time to time and If I do not hear from you within 1 year I would like to contact you again.
Thank you for you patience with my long explaination.

Ralph Antonelli
rantonelli@cox.net {Rhode Island}

posted by ra22 at 8:05 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2008

Although not a book but a series of television "Mystery" programs on PBS, "Foyle's War" has intrigued me. I heartily recommend it to you, particularly since it is set in England during WW II. Inspector Foyle wears the funkiest of 40s clothing. Unfortunately the series has come to an end. I shall miss the taciturn Foyle and his cheerful and robust female driver.

posted by WMGOATGRUFF at 11:33 pm (EST) on Aug 10, 2008

Thanks for the invite to Black Orchids! If you don't mind, I've sent you a friend invite. We both seem to share a thing for British mysteries in the 40's and 50's. I inherited most of my Christie and Stout collection from a great aunt when I was about seven, and have been hooked on mysteries since then. Have you seen the A&E Nero Wolfe series? I thought it was quite well done.

posted by ninjapenguin at 1:21 pm (EST) on Jun 23, 2008

I'd like your opinion on Dorothy Gilman. Her books read over-romantically to me, but then I've never been to the areas of the world she writes about. Any thoughts?

posted by benfulton at 11:57 pm (EST) on May 9, 2008

Good mystery, very interesting character, half caste detective frequently set in the remote stations and towns of 30/40 Australian outback. Death of a Lake is in a uniquitely Aussie setting with a lake that results from infrequent but severe flooding.

posted by jamespurcell at 9:24 am (EST) on May 6, 2008

Have you tried Arthur Upfield's books set in Australia from the late 30s to the 50s?

posted by jamespurcell at 7:26 pm (EST) on May 5, 2008

Came here to snoop because of that wonderful sentence you wrote in Anglophiles and fell in love with Bernice.

posted by tiffin at 8:53 pm (EST) on Apr 21, 2008

At last I have discovered someone who owns a book by E. H. Clements ! I have 14, but no one else seems to have read these World War 2 mysteries.

posted by Booksrme at 10:59 pm (EST) on Apr 14, 2008

Hey, thanks for the invite. Have you hacked my computer. I love Americana. Check ou Po'Girl. Be Good Tanyas and The Wailin Jennys. All Canadian I am afraid. But I will give you Kane,Welch and Kaplan.

posted by paddyb at 3:59 pm (EST) on Apr 11, 2008

Hello - I just wanted to stop by and say thanks for accepting my friend invite. I can't believe you have so many books! Have a great weekend! :)

posted by ginviren at 7:55 pm (EST) on Apr 5, 2008

Hi, I also enjoy the older mysteries. Here is an author who writes under several
pseudonyms.I did not see him in your lists of authors. They take place in Great Britain.John Creasey writes under the names of, Kyle Hunt,J.J.Marric,Anthony Morton,Gordon Ashe and I believe a couple more. I have yet to get his books that I have, in my library. The ones I have, were written during the 60's and 70's. Now might be a good time to start puttting them in my library.

posted by cindysprocket at 7:29 pm (EST) on Mar 15, 2008

Thanks so much for the invite! I'm in that group and several others. Right now I am mostly hopping from page to page and finding interesting libraries and people. I have found people with many books in their library that I have. This site is an endless source of pleasure for me. I have 3 dogs-2 mini-dachsunds-1 wireless 1 smooth black and tanwith silver dapples-the wirteless has pretty golden fur, but very frazzled and spiky. I also have a chinese crested.They are all females. I would love tohave bunches of dogs. Your picture looks like a basset and a great dane.The picture on my site is not one of my dogs. Thanks for the hello, see you around. Mary Beth

posted by mmignano11 at 2:18 am (EST) on Mar 10, 2008

Hello,

I recently joined the All Books Africa Group. As a publisher who has just released a novel about the Angolan Civil War, I thought it might be worth bringing to your attention. Ondjaki's Good morning Comrades has just been released (indeed, i'm not sure amazon has changed it status yet). Ondjaki is a Lusophone writer of international reputation, and our edition of Good morning Comrades introduces him to an English speaking audience for the first time. It will not be the last: Aflame Books in the UK is set to release his fable The Whistler, and I know New Directions is also looking at publishing something by him soon. We expect he will become one of the most celebrated African novelists of his generation.

Anyway, if you would like further information on Comrades, you can chcekc out our website at www.biblioasis.com. It is also available online on amazon and elsewhere, and available through any good bookstore.

Thansk for your time, and I do hope that this was not too intrusive. (We're a small literary press based in Canada, and we're just trying to do whatever we can to let potential readers know about the book.

Best wishes,

Dan Wells

posted by biblioasis at 9:56 pm (EST) on Feb 29, 2008

Hi Quartzite

Had to add you to my Interesting Libraries as I'm also a big fan of early British crime novels and am always on the lookout for more. I've just read my first Catherine Aird (The Religious Body) which I very much enjoyed and cribbed from your library! I'm now on the trawl round for more, thank goodness for secondhand bookshops.

posted by dorisdayrules at 11:38 am (EST) on Feb 17, 2008

Thanks for the invite. I guess now I'll have to read my copy of [Marley and me]. Now that I know it's a tearjerker, I almost dread it.

posted by oh2read at 7:30 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2008

Hi quartzite - thanks for the LTers with dogs invite. :) love your pooches for the longest time we thought ours was part Dane. I'm sure I'll peruse your library at some point as you have quite the collection and we have a bit in common. Thanks again :)

posted by evedeve at 3:13 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2008

Hi quartzite, thanks for the invitation to Quakerly readers. I'm watching the group and will participate if moved to speak. I'm impressed by your mystery collection, although I see we share a pretty interesting mix. Best, Jim

posted by Jim53 at 9:34 pm (EST) on Feb 4, 2008

Thanks for your friendship! I look forward to checking out your books and hope you enjoy mine.

posted by lisaunger at 1:51 pm (EST) on Nov 26, 2007

Hiya - I was brought to your homepage by your post on Jane Stevenson's London Bridges, one of my favourite books (and one with shockingly few copies on LT - in fact, none of her books has many copies listed). You have a very interesting library.

What did you think of The Guards by Ken Bruen? I am thinking about getting this.

posted by wandering_star at 9:28 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2007

Hm, interesting. I spend a couple of days adding our 'crime fiction' shelf, and "bing" - there you are in our list of Similar Libraries. I'm nowhere on your "members with your books" list, so it must be quality, not quantity! (And no, I haven't read them all: most of them are mine by marriage.)

posted by MyopicBookworm at 2:41 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2007

Well, the listing that came closest to my copy listed ER as the author-she did write the introduction, and I didn't want to add yet another persnickity listing.

Cheers, RachelP

posted by rachelp at 7:00 pm (EST) on Jul 24, 2007

>Small virtual world.

There's a theory in SF - it sounds like Philip K. Dick, but I haven't run down the actual source - that there are only 600 "real" people in the world. As one encounters the same people in different contexts on the internet, some days this theory feels like it just might be true.

This is the moment of internet fame that I was referring to - - last week, DeLong linked to a blog entry of mine, about showing my kids electric fields:

> http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/06/po...

My moment of Internet fame is as a Great Big Nerd....

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 5:36 pm (EST) on Jun 26, 2007

Hi! Yes, that's me. (My moment of internet fame....)

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 5:28 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2007

Hill has had a couple of wobbles but mainly his books have been fantastic. I find it very hard to put one down once I have started it.

posted by wormread at 2:43 pm (EST) on Jun 15, 2007

Like you, I also tend to prefer the older mystery novels. Having said that there are a couple of more modern writers who have done well in my eyes. Reginald Hill is one and Colin Dexter is another.

posted by wormread at 4:24 pm (EST) on Jun 5, 2007

quartzite,
Thank you for the information! I have corrected the entries. I assume you are aware that Juan Calvino is John Calvin in Spanish.

Best regards,
Enrique F. Bird

posted by EnriqueFBird at 4:13 pm (EST) on Mar 19, 2007

Thank you for the invite to the Simple Minded Group... yep, I have enough "simplicity" books to qualify... tee hee!!

posted by skittles at 2:30 pm (EST) on Mar 11, 2007

Thanks for the John Biggins recommendation over on the Historical Fiction group message board. I am nearly through with A Sailor of Austria and already put the second in the series on hold at the library. Apparently, his fourth book is finally being published in the US soon. Maybe he'll start publishing again.

posted by dougwood57 at 4:44 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2007

Flesh and Metal -- the reviews were awful, but it isn't quality that counts in this case - LOL.

posted by Seajack at 11:56 am (EST) on Feb 7, 2007

Quartz: I resorted to cheating, and after *a lot* of websurfing, came up with a single North Dakota murder mystery. As you are one of the 2 LT'ers to have catalogued it, I'll let you close out the 50 state thread.
Seajack

posted by Seajack at 3:15 pm (EST) on Feb 6, 2007

Hi Quartzite
Another British mystery writer of the forties and fifties - Nancy Spain - very breezy and funny.

posted by pamelad at 2:55 am (EST) on Dec 3, 2006

quartzite, long story, but I was checking out users with Archer Mayor books (I spent last evening with Julia Spencer-Fleming, Sarah Stewart Taylor and him at what was my final event at the bookstore...and what a great, fun event it was!) and your name came up. So here I am checking out what we have in common (of what I've got in so far; and a fine list it is!)and then I got nosey or curious, depending on how you look at it, and perused your library. What no Martin Booth? Judging by what we have in common and what you have tagged WWII, you might like his Hiroshima Joe or possibly Islands of Silence (WWI-related)...or even A Very Private Gentleman (which isn't war-related but very good...and set in Italy). Just a thought...or two.

posted by avaland at 10:19 am (EST) on Nov 19, 2006

Hi Quartzite, you left me a comment about sharing Douglas Clarke (and many others). That period in mysteries is my favorite too. I haven't got a lot of my mysteries cataloged yet, but I have a couple of authors you should check out that I love.
Cyril Hare writes wonderful legal puzzles the way Clarke weaves medicine into his.

Charles Todd His Inspector Rutledge books set just after WWI are unique in that his "sidekick" is a man who he had to order to be executed in the Somme and who now lives in his head along with him. Excellent characters and satisfying plots.

John Dickson Carr aka Carter Dickson are these missing because you don't care for him? He was my life's blood growing up and the master of the locked room mystery.

David Frome who is really Leslie Ford in British garb The Mr Pinkerton series is a delightful series about the meekest of men who has a knack for getting caught up in murders and is protected by his sergeant friend.

How about Anthony Boucher, Clayton Rawson, and Edmund Crispin?

Sorry, I'll stop going on about one of my favorite topics. I also used to read passionately about East Africa, especially prewar and anything by Colin Turnbull.

Let's chat again!

posted by BCCJillster at 7:17 pm (EST) on Nov 10, 2006

Thanks for letting me know about the other homeschool groups! Somehow I missed them. :o) Let's see, how do we delete...LOL

posted by thatbooksmell at 6:30 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2006

Hi - we're the only ones with EM Delafield's I visit the Soviets, although my edition is actually called "Bricks without Straw." It's so old, I need to properly enter the ISBN and load the correct cover. I love her books, well written and interesting, whether the Provincial Lady or something more solemn such as Thank Heaven Fasting.

posted by auntysassy at 3:40 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2006

Thanks for the correction. You are right!

posted by dara85 at 7:16 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2006

A Paul Watkins fan. Fantastic!

posted by williamc at 2:38 pm (EST) on Sep 13, 2006

Hello and thanks for the welcome! I just discovered this site and I spent all day yesterday logging in books; it's so addictive. Sheep in a Jeep is really for my 2-yr-old, but it's a great book!

posted by obsessedbybooks at 3:59 pm (EST) on Sep 10, 2006

You're one of the few who have The Perfect London Walk in their library so I had to say hello. I also enjoyed your comments on the progressive christianity message board.

-Rus

posted by rdixon98 at 6:57 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2006

Love your dogs! What are their names?? They remind me of my two - one big and one small. :) Do you have any favorite WWII books?? I also have a fondness for that time period, I have a collection of propaganda items. I wonder if there is a group devoted to that??

posted by Cheshire-Cat at 3:53 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2006

You've caught me out again I see,well done. At least it shows that somebody is reading this thing
At the moment I'm in the process of entering my section devoted to 'Crime Fiction Reference', which I'm about half-way through and may be of interest to you.
Anyway all the best Sherlock
devenish

posted by devenish at 2:29 pm (EST) on Aug 27, 2006

Thank you. I have enrolled in teh Sailing group. I hadn't
investigated the groups facility at all until I got your
message - looks like some interesting groups.

Roger Hare.

posted by captbirdseye at 5:37 am (EST) on Aug 16, 2006

You are of course quite correct. 'Night's Black Agents', is by Armstrong,and I will correct this directly. Thanks for that.
One tends when entering vast amounts of books to get rather fuzzy after a while. I've still got many thousands to go yet,quite a lot of which are crime fiction,so keep keeping track,and if you see any more mistakes(as I'm sure that you will),don't hesitate to tell me.
All the best.

posted by devenish at 2:25 pm (EST) on Aug 11, 2006

Re: lesser known mystery writers that I'd recommend.
I'd suggest George Harmon Coxe, Ben Benson, Thomas B. Dewey, Harold Q. Masur, and Leslie Ford. For espionage with some humor, I'd recommend Manning Coles. Most of these authors were writing in the 1950s. John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, especially early ones, for the locked room type of mystery. For a scientific detective, try those by R. Austin Freeman.

posted by joel at 2:40 pm (EST) on Aug 9, 2006

quartzite, re: East Germany. Probably not. I was just "venturing" there from my home in Hessen. August 1989 in Berlin? That is really a near miss with history...! Well, I wasn't there either, my professors wouldn't shift the exams ;-).

posted by GirlFromIpanema at 2:31 pm (EST) on Aug 8, 2006

Yes, I did it a little after I sent the message. I went by the titles as they appeared and moved out all the "expanded", "uncut" and "complete". Let's see how long it lasts. I wish we could put notes on specific author pages and say DO NOT COMBINE "X" AND "Y".

posted by alibrarian at 12:37 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2006

I was just going over my top matches and found that Stephen King's The Stand doubled. Someone put the editions back together again

posted by alibrarian at 11:58 pm (EST) on Aug 5, 2006