Sarah's mention of mysteries where one would never guess the culprit reminded me of the Charlie Chan mysteries,a by Earl Derr Biggers. My parents had the whole set, and I read every one -- I could *not* guess the culprit, and even once the butler did it. When I started to write this I couldn't remember the author's name. When I looked in my library's catalog, I saw several videos but only one book and that was in the rare books collection. Who could imagine that the books are no considered "rare books." I wish I'd kept them in a place where they didn't get moldy. (sigh) Cindy -- Sarah Van Oosterwijck <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I bet you would like books by Carter Dickson. They > fit the patern of > the classic British mystery of that period, and > there is hardly any > chance that you will guess the ending before you get > to it. :-) > > He also writes under the name John Dickson Carr, > but I didn't like the > one book he wrote under that name that I started to > read. Of course > that probably wasn't enough for a good judgement, > but then there > probably is a reason why he wrote under two > different pen names. > > Anyway, I suggest this author because bookshare > doesn't have anything by > Carter Dickson and neither does my public library > system. I would think > he didn't exist if NLS didn't have several books by > him. None of them > are available from web braille, though. If anyone > could get and scan > some of his books I think they would be a good > addition to the bookshare > collection. > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck > http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 1:41 AM > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Shrinking step 1 > > > > Hi. Yes, I know about that and I do remember her > commenting on it, > but I > > was surprised that it was apparently a few hundred > books in a matter > of a > > few days. Also, I still see many plain text books > on there that have > been > > there for awhile, so I'm not sure that that's it. > > > > I am interested in mystery, science fiction and > fantasy. I am > especially > > interested in Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen but > I like all classics > from > > the 1920's-1960's. That was the golden age of > mystery fiction. I > would > > really like to get books by Edward D. Hoch, but > they are apparently > hard to > > find. I think he has published at least one short > story collection > but I > > don't have the title. All he writes is short > stories and he has > written > > several hundred. > > > > At 11:22 PM 4/25/2005 -0700, you wrote: > > >Marissa did say something about doing something > with > > >books that have been on the list for a long time, > but > > >I don't remember what she was going to do-- ask > the > > >scanner to validate them or delete them or what. > And > > >they were going to reject books that had no page > > >breaks, but I don't know if they were going to > do > > >that when they were validated and uploaded and > had no > > >page breaks or if there was some way to tell > about > > >such books on the download list. > > > > > >Some people may have taken books to work on just > so > > >they wouldn't get deleted because they were on > the > > >list for so long. What kind of books are you > > >interested in? > > > > Tony Baechler > > Maintainer, goldenaudio.net (TM) online archives > > http://goldenaudio.net/ > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - > Release Date: 4/25/2005 > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - > Release Date: 4/25/2005 > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com