On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:37:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 10/30/2007 1:02:25 A.M.  Pacific Daylight Time, 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Georgette Heyer? I don't  understand - she writes bodice-rippers (I
> gather, never having read anything  by her). Patricia Highsmith writes
> cool, modern, cruel, murderous 50s East  Coast - much more like  Ann's
> photo.
> 
> --
> Bob
> 
> =============
> Not bodice rippers,  Jane Austen Lite (written in 1930-40's, Austen didn't go 
> in for bodice ripping).  True, your time period is better, though mine would 
> work. I just didn't see an  element of mystery, only romance.

Georgette Heyer writes mysteries, too - in fact those are the only examples
of her work that I have read.  I'm sure I've got half a dozen somewhere on
my mystery shelves, together with Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Patricia
Wentworth, etc.  The Agatha Christie books live elsewhere, but only because
they're a different size.


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