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I've Been Out to Lunch….

I know that I have not been very good about posting responses to comments these past few days. I posted one response, then decided to take it off, only to put my comment back on, and ultimately took it off AGAIN. Good grief!!! I also changed a previous blog/entry once it was up… That doesn’t happen very often!

I have had “other things” on my mind these past few days. My husband was hospitalized on Monday, and, THANK GOODNESS he is back at home, and is OK. He is “so OK” that he is planning on going back to work tomorrow – Thursday. He has been hospitalized two other times (in the past +/- five years) and we thought for sure it was the same thing. Luckily, it was not.

So, I think that I am “back to normal” now and will get back into the swing of the site. Hopefully I will be able to post a comment without hesitating and wondering if I am wording it right… if my grammar is correct… if I know what I am talking about… if it makes sense… ETC

Thanks for being patient!

Authors Similar to Carolyn Hart

So, you made your way through Carolyn (G.) Hart’s Death on Demand Mystery Series, then the Henrie O Mystery Series. And you were particularly happy to see that Carolyn Hart started the new Bailey Ruth Mystery Series, but you have caught up with that series also. Here is a list of authors who you might enjoy reading now that you have made your way through all of Carolyn Hart’s mysteries.

Authors similar to Carolyn Hart:

Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity Mystery Series

Mignon Ballard: Augusta Goodnight Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton (aka Marion Chesney): Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series

Lilian Jackson Braun: The Cat Who ***** Mystery Series

Simon Brett: Melita Pargeter Mystery Series AND Fethering Mystery Series

Jan Burke: Irene Kelly Mystery Series

John Dickson Carr: Henri Bencolin Mystery Series AND Gideon Fell Mystery Series

Jill Churchill: Jane Jeffry Mystery Series AND Grace and Favor Mystery Series

Deborah Crombie: Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Amanda Cross: Kate Fansler Mystery Series

Mary Daheim: Emma Lord/Alpine Mystery Series AND Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series

Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Sharon Fiffer: Jane Wheel Mystery Series

Earlene Fowler: Benni Harper Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman: Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby & Mitchell Village Whodunit Mystery Series AND Fran Varaday Mystery Series

Carolyn Haines: Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series

Lee Harris: Christine Bennett (Holiday) Mystery Series

Joan Hess (aka Joan Hadley): Claire Malloy Mystery Series

Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series

G. A. McKevett: Savannah Reid Mystery Series

Katherine Hall Page: Faith Fairchild Mystery Series

Lora Roberts: Liz Sullivan Mystery Series AND Bridget Montrose Mystery Series

Sarah R. Shaber: Professor Simon Shaw Mystery Series

Josephine Tey: Alan Grant Mystery Series  

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Carolyn (G.) Hart, and I will add them to the list.

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Hercule Poirot : Appointment with Death – Agatha Christie – PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery!

Here’s another reminder… Appointment with Death, is the last of the first-run Agatha Christie episodes featuring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot this summer. After tonight’s showing, PBS Masterpiece Mystery! will be airing “encore” presentations of one more Poirot episode, followed by three “encore” presentations of Inspector Lewis, with Kevin Whately… who is absolutely fabulous in this role! If you missed those three episodes, I urge you to watch them (or record them) this summer. There will be one first-run Inspector Lewis episode on August 29. Terrific! I’m looking forward to it already!

Appointment with Death is based on the 1938 Agatha Christie mystery.  And yes, I do know that in the late 1980s, Peter Ustinov starred in a movie based on this Agatha Christie mystery. That version was yet another “Who’s Who” from earlier Hollywood movies: Lauren Bacall, Piper Laurie, Hailey Mills, even Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)!

This 90 minute version of Appointment with Death will (of course) star David Suchet… AND Tim Curry… who happens to be wonderful in every role he undertakes.

Will Hercule’s little gray cells enable him to solve the mystery? Will Hercule sift through all of the clues and be able to reach the correct solution? And last, but not least (perhaps only for me!), will Hercule be the same Hercule we have all grown to love over the last few decades, and, incidentally, the same Hercule Poirot that Agatha Christie wrote about >>>OR Will Hercule be a different (albeit still very convincing Belgian detective), more soul-searching Monsieur Poirot?

Need Help Identifying Mystery Book Series with Pix & Smoky Mountains…

OK, Cozy Mystery site readers >>> I am (again!!!) asking for your help. I have received two requests for help in identifying two mystery series. (As you all know… since I have repeatedly written about it… When I started the site I ONLY had pages for authors I was familiar with… authors who I read and enjoyed. Now, however, with all of the recommendations from site readers about authors who they think belong on the site, I am no longer familiar with all of them. And, let’s be honest… I would have to be a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the Evelyn Wood Speed Reading Course to have read all of the authors on the site!)

Getting back to my requests…

Gayle writes: “… They are set up around the Smoky Mts. This man is rich, has a huge mansion, attends parties in Knoxville, and has these people that work for him to solve mysteries. During one of the mysteries he meets a woman, falls in love with her and brings her there to mansion.”

Here is Susan’s request: “…The mystery solver was a housewife, I think.  One of her neighbors was a large and growing Catholic family who named their children after saints.  One of the sons, named Pix after Pius X, helped her out in her mystery solving.  Do you know what this series is?”

Please post a comment if you have any helpful suggestions for Gayle or Susan.

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