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In article <1179520071.367528.166950@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>, robtcohen@msn.com says... > On May 18, 8:42 am, kenny <k...@NOSPAM.com> wrote: > > I'm not a natural reader of thrillers or crime, but there was something > > about the obituary of Michael Dibdin in the Guardian last month that set > > me about reading his books. Six weeks and his life's work of some > > twenty books later     

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Author: kenny
Date: May 23, 2007 04:02

On May 19, 8:53 am, Hal Womack 3-dan <hal.wom...@gmail.com> wrote: Sometimes we may overlook the obvious: John Le Carre boasts truly, as I seem to recall from some introduction read years ago, that every one of his novels only gets better --with the sole exception of SINGLE & SINGLE, evidently written while he was stunned by the Jews' successful assassination of Princess Diana. Then
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Sometimes we may overlook the obvious: John Le Carre boasts truly, as I seem to recall from some introduction read years ago, that every one of his novels only gets better --with the sole exception of SINGLE & SINGLE, evidently written while he was stunned by the Jews' successful assassination of Princess Diana. Then he recovered himself. John Grisham's THE BRETHREN [2000] a jolly good read     

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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: May 19, 2007 07:14

On May 18, 8:42 am, kenny <k...@NOSPAM.com> wrote: I'm not a natural reader of thrillers or crime, but there was something about the obituary of Michael Dibdin in the Guardian last month that set me about reading his books. Six weeks and his life's work of some twenty books later I'm in mourning that there will be no more to come. Someone please suggest a living author who is as
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trio@euronet.nl (Donna Richoux) writes: > Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com> wrote: > >> Going or being taken or sent to hell (or heaven) in a hand-basket >> is an image that goes back to the 1830s or 1840s. > > Which citations were those, please? I'm getting a bit mixed up by > all the variations but I don't find anything that early now. I didn't give the full quotations or citations     

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Author: Hal Womack 3-dan
Date: May 19, 2007 05:53

On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:42:51 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address <bogus@purr.demon.co.uk> wrote: I'm curious to know which European cities have a contemporary series of crime novels associated with them. Edinburgh - Ian Rankin, Quintin Jardine, Paul Johnston, Kate Atkinson Glasgow - Denise Mina Venice - Donna Leon Sarajevo - Dan Fesperman Barcelona - Manuel Vasquez Montalban Istanbul
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Django Cat wrote: > LFS wrote: > >>> Ultimately, the lady should make the choice herself as you say! >>> However, I think that scruples about connection using the >>> conventional "Mrs Jane Henderson" would only arise if the great >>> Isaac were in the same field as Jane. >>> >>> >>> >> Not necessarily. Suppose he were a cabinet minister, for example - >> she may want to avoid work colleagues     

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Author: Robert Cohen
Date: May 18, 2007 13:27

Jack Linthicum wrote: On Mar 19, 11:52 pm, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@yahoo.com> wrote: "PaPaPeng" <PaPaP...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:03m2u31ca3q9ng2lkrlqq8p1a81bd8i77g@4ax.com... Aw c'mon you guys all swear like preteens. They'll never make it into any novel. What happened to those really salty oaths from olde tars like "Shiver me timbers"? What
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Jack Linthicum wrote: > On Mar 19, 11:52 pm, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>"PaPaPeng" <PaPaP...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> >>news:03m2u31ca3q9ng2lkrlqq8p1a81bd8i77g@4ax.com... >> >> >> >> >>>Aw c'mon you guys all swear like preteens. They'll never make it >>>into any novel. What happened to those really salty oaths from olde >>>tars like "Shiver me timbers"? What     

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Author: kenny
Date: May 18, 2007 05:42

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Author: Evan Kirshenbaum
Date: Jun 13, 2008 22:53

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Author: Carole Allen
Date: May 21, 2008 22:32

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Author: LFS
Date: Mar 27, 2008 10:50

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Author: CENTCOM Vice Commander
Date: Mar 21, 2008 05:10

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Author: CENTCOM Vice Commander
Date: Mar 21, 2008 05:10

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