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In The Company Of Cheerful Ladies
Another in the series of the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency stories, the second one I've read now. A very nice story, with interesting insights into life in Botswana.
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4/2016
The Kalahari Typing School For Men
I think that I am starting to get into this series, now that I've read maybe three!
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2/2019
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
A lady in Botswana start a detective agency to help people with their problems. Very nice.
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5/2004
Boy's Life
A young boy in Alabama gets involved in a murder back in the early sixties. Very excellent.
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... she turned away from me, and dismissed all of us with a buttstrut that was as wicked as a sword slash. (pg. 17)Read:
1/2003
Gone South
A jobless Vietnam vet kills a banker sorta accidently, ends up helping a girl search for the Bright Girl, and avoiding a bounty hunter with three arms. Very excellent.
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..."I always wanted to pull my own weight. Pay my bills and take pride in my job. That's what was importent to me." (pg. 231)Read:
1/2003
The Road
A man and his son travel the road to the sea in this tale of survival years after some unnamed disaster kills pretty much everything but a few semi-human survivors. The author seems to have a "thing" about using apostrophes consistently. Some lovely writing, but I didn't really care for the book.
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10/2011
The kite rider
A boy in China in the time of Kubla Khan finds a skill in flying on kites.
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6/2004
Coup de Grâce
Firefly, #8. It was nice to visit with the crew as they are hired to catch a killer who gunned down a beloved lawyer on the planet Abel. They are hired by the lawyer's daughter.
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Fella -- The word fella, or fellas, is used over a hundred times in the story. It annoyed me. Read:
2/2025
Bimbos & Zombies
Contains the stories "Bimbos Of The Death Sun" and "Zombies Of The Gene Pool", two very good stories involving Fandom and murder. The quote below, from "Zombies", reminds of when I had the flu last week...
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..."Are you all right?" An instant later they could see he wasn't. The smell of vomit and voided bowels reached them them and made them draw back, even before Marion saw the stiffening form of the room's occupant, sprawled across the sill of the bathroom.Read:
9/2000
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
24 or so examples of her short stories. Some suspense stories some not. Most are pretty good.
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9/2000
If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O
A folksinger moves to Hamelin in Appalacia and someone is out to get her, with spooky Vietnam War implications.
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9/2000
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
Elizabeth MacPherson helps solve the murders of two husbands who died over 100 years apart.
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9/2000
MacPherson's Lament
Elizabeth's and Bill's parents are divorcing, plus Bill is in big trouble in the second case of his law career.
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9/2000
Missing Susan
Elizabeth MacPherson goes on a "Mystery" tour in the south of England. Really good story with many interesting tidbits of information and humerous incidents. Several characters are from the San Diego area, and one is from La Mesa!
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9/2000
Saint Dale
Not a mystery, a bus tour by people who revered Dale Earnhart to various NASCAR race tracks. More car racing info. than I really wanted to know!! TITLE should be changed to "St. Dale", I did a boo-boo.
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7/2005
She Walks These Hills
Mystery story set in Appalachia. Very good story. Kept reading sections to wife. Old man escapes from prison, Hometown folks on the lookout for him.
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8/2000
The Ballad Of Frankie Silver
A fabulous story intwining a true story from the 1800s and a contemporary story involving Sheriff Spencer Arrowood.
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10/2000
The Ballad Of Tom Dooley
Interesting novelization base on the author's research. I've read several of these "Ballad" novels, and have enjoyed them.
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12/2018
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Murder at the Underhill farm in Appalacia leaves two teen survivors of the family.
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9/2000
The PMS Outlaws
Eleizabeth MacPherson is in the looney bin, A. P. Powell gets a strange phone call from a law-school chum who is on the lam.
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Geoffrey Chandler, a mainstay of his local community theatre, was often thought to be quoting Noel Coward even when he wasn't. It was an effect into which he put considerable effort. --pg. 121 BONUS QUOTE:
..."Tonya Harding got a raw deal. On behalf of the planet, I'm begging her pardon."... --page 186Read:
8/2003
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