[ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:18:54 +0100
Andrew Martin's railway books are generally better than Edward Marston's
ones. The detective is a railway man by profession and an amateur detective.
His descriptions of the life and circumstances of Victorian working people
are very well done. He manages to capture the grime of the early years of
railways. His description of Waterloo and its surroundings in the Necropolis
Railway is very good and totally believable.
Steve
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On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
Sent: 17 June 2013 16:20
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
David, I haven't read Edward Marston, but you're not thinking of Andrew
Martin, are you? His books are all about railways. Someone gave us a load of
them in print, and we were relieved to find a source of texts of them
without having to scan. Now it only remains to get round to reading them.
The chap who gave them to us said he hadn't enjoyed any book so much since
he was a boy, and he's quite an old fellow now. Clare
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From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:09 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT READING
>I have read Edward Marston and I think the books had a railway theme.
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> On Behalf Of Elaine Harris (Rivendell)
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> Thank you, Steve; I don't know the Edward Marston so shall look into them.
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> On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
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> Hi
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> I have just finished the first of Edward Marston's Elizabethan Theatre
> detective novels. A short but very enjoyable book. Marston is a
> curious author he has written several series of crime and detection
> books each set in a different historic period against a different
> professional background.
> I was put off reading him for some time as I feared that they might be
> formula books - one crime set against different backgrounds. However,
> I have found this not to be the case. Each series is well researched
> and the crimes are appropriate to their time and place. Well worth
> reading if you want something quick and fairly light.
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> For my reading group I have just started Hardy's Wessex tales. Looking
> at the contents I think I have read or heard dramatized versions of
> each of the stories. Seeing what the accumulative effect of them all
> will be interesting. Not sure how the discussion will go on this one.
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> Apart from the Hardy all my other sources seem to be coming up with
> detectives. I've got the third Ann Perry, William Pitt book and one of
> Donna Leon venetian mysteries. I might have to hunt for something
> different as handling two detectives at a time can get a bit
> confusing.
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