Mark Pghfan’s Comments (group member since Mar 06, 2014)

Mark Pghfan’s comments from the The Parlor PI's group.

Sky blue and teal are not the same. Teal has some green in it!

I guess one butcher may use certain bones and someone else use different ones.

I though the second half was pretty good, investigation-wise. And the solution made sense.

Well, let me work on that...

Yes, a lot of snow! I'm used to snow; I was born and raised in Erie, PA!

Yes, Tina, the blame game is afoot. And there are a lot of people who disliked this Santa.

I'm almost done with the second story, but the book is due back to the library soon. Aren't we reading HP's Christmas?

There are four sessions,, 90 minutes each, for four weeks. I can share some things once they are finalized!

Some of you know I have been teaching some classes for OSHER, the life-long learning program at Carnegie Mellon University here in Pittsburgh. Well, I am teaching two classes in the winter term and one (Golden Age Mystery Writers) was fully booked within 8 hours of the sign-ups opening, and a waiting list is started. My other class, The World of Agatha Christie, up for its second outing, has only one seat left!

I didn't guess either, though it did make sense. A nice, atmospheric Christmas read!

The rich, alcohol-laden hot chocolate described should better than the sugar-free, instant stuff I've been drinking!!

And the victim sounded like a really terrible, but troubled person.

I really like this, though I was prematurely upset when dogs started going missing. Fortunately that was not a real serious problem. Not like Santa, though! I loved the Irish setting and for once, our reading was very Christmassy!

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all! This year we need to be grateful for stretch pants!

I'll check her out as well.

"series-es"?

I've heard the name Mary Daheim, but don't know anything about her other books. Does she have more than one series/detective?

I like to get audiobook whenever I can, to use driving time to expand my reading. We are fortunate to have a lot of them available through our library system. I "read" much of the series of Nero Wolfe's this year, via audio books.

NicoleG: Looks interesting!

I liked the book overall, as the solution was well plotted and well detected by our heroine. I was uncertain most of the way whether this would turn out right.

I don't think I've read any Mary Daheim before, but I might try one or two out. I think she has written a great many!

I admit I was bewildered by the interrelationships between the eight, though...

Tina: I think that is a great idea!

All: I just finished a short audio book by M C Beaton called A Highland Christmas. This is a Hamish MacBeth, not an Agatha Raisin story. No murder, but a really charming, very Christmassy story. If you can lay your hands on it, it is a very pleasant listen (or read).

You can host Cocoa. Slight hint of things to come, in Cocoa, there is also a parrot, just like Fowl Prey!

It is pretty good. Set in Ireland at Christmas time, and fairly Christmassy, so far. The lead character is going to be joining the local police in the new year!

We can start Cocoa when everyone is ready. Just after Thanksgiving sounds fine with me. We still have the final part of Fowl Prey to do, anyway! There are three stories in the Cocoa volume, but they are each fairly long (Christmas Cocoa Murder is 134 pages.) We can decide later of if we want to do the others. And we are also going to fit in a Poirot! I can host whatever is needed, as well.