On Jun 3, 2005, at 20:19, Jane Viking Swanson wrote:
Writing as Mary Monica Pulver she's written some with another
detective and
at least one appears to be at a Society for Creative Anachronism event.
Sounds faintly familiar, but I can't remember the specifics; must not
have liked the series well enough to get any of the books :)
She also wrote some Medieval mysteries with another woman under the
name of Monica Frazer.
*Margaret* Frazer. Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries, with individual
titles vaguely reminiscent of Chaucer's "tales", to whom the
"detective", sister Frevisse, is remotely related. They're very nice,
though I have yet to make an all-out effort at assembling them all :) I
have plans to visit the Boulder's mystery bookstore post-Convention and
see if I can find (paperback, used by preference) more than the five I
own now.
There seems to be a royal mess regarding the writers of that series...
Of the five books I have, the copyright is attributed to:
1) Margaret Frazer (The Servant's Tale, 1993; The Prioress' Tale, 1997)
2) Mary Monica Kuhfeld and Gail Bacon (The Bishop's Tale, 1994; The
Boy's Tale, 1995)
3) Gail Frazer (The Maiden's Tale, 1998)
So it's a carousel of both first names and surnames, and the publishing
dates don't seems to follow any particular pattern :) But, whether the
books are written in collaboration or as an individual effort, they're
*seamless* - you can't tell, by the writing style, who's writing what.
I find it rather unusual, having been, *badly*, "burnt" on the Miss
Seeton series "continuation" after Heron Carvic died. And the whole
series is a *lot* better - both as to writing style and to plots - than
the "Monica Ferris" textile series, which is very weak (IMO), and which
I buy only because it's to do with textiles...
Yours, third-through the last of Sano Ichiro books; the next one's due
to be published in August... In hardback, which means it'll probably be
January at the earliest, before I lay my hands on its paperback
version... Something else to look for in Boulder :)
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