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

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

I had a great time in London. My luggage just arrived today, though I came in last night! Bought lots of Brit mysteries, saw the Agatha Christie monument in St. Martin's square, visited the Sherlock Holmes museum (hard to believe that he is really a fictional character!)

Feeling a bit better and my head is clogged with meds, though.

Pghfan just got back from London today and is dog tired. He also caught a cold and is unable to think at the moment. Whatever you decide will work for me.

I noticed that, at the end of my Kindle page, there is a heading, "October 22nd." Nothing but the quite long excerpt follows, though. It looks like there is something further, but we just don't have it. Tina, can you check with the author and see what's up?

I'm going to be traveling for the next 10 days, so I probably won't be able to join in anything further. Jolly old England!

Well, something very frustrating just happened. I ordered this book on Kindle and at chapter 12, clearly not the end of the book, it nevertheless stopped. The rest of the "book" was clearly something completely different--I guess a preview of another of Ms. Daley's books, not even another Tess and Tilly. Somebody messed up here, probably the Kindle people, but I won't be able to continue the discussion. I'd love to know how it ended.

I finished this section, and am charging on. There are certainly revelations before we leave this second part!

The 13th is OK with me. A short book is fine, if that's where we go. Goodness knows I've got other things I want to read as well!

There is the question of the three graves, now. And I am beginning to wonder whether the father really abandoned the children at all, and perhaps was nearby all the time.

Murder on Halloween looks good. Candy coated also looks good, but short--novella length. I know we've read the Christie and the Diva book and discussed them as well, in the past.

Still moving through this section. Tony and Tess meet up with the new owner of the house and he seems very nice and interested in participating in figuring out the terrible curse on the Harringtons. Since I just read Ms. Daley's comment about how she sets about writing, I guess there is no point it trying to guess the resolution of the mystery!

Wow! That sort of thing seems quite unusual in the mystery writing fare. What happens if nothing is revealed? Just keep writing and edit later?

I've moved into this section now, and found the interesting story of Tess's mother and her trip to Europe just after High School. And the business or her meeting the man who looks suspiciously like Tess's father! Things that make you go "hmmm."

Nicole, I'm also wondering how the business with the father and the business with Harrington House will fit in. (Assuming that they do.) I also find Tony's job of investigation interesting--certainly a help for an amateur detective!

I was surprised as well with the number of series Ms. Daley has going.

I read the first past again, as I was forgetful of it and wanted to catch up before moving on. We seem to have been assured that the skeleton found in the house is NOT the missing daughter and it seems unlikely that it is not going to be part of the mystery. With so many of the family dying, perhaps it is one of them?

Also, there is the mystery of Tess's father, and Tony's searching for past info on that. I don't yet see how that will fit in either.

It does appear as though they solved something together in an earlier book, doesn't it? I have to start up again. I read the first five chapters or so and stopped, not wanting to get too far ahead, and now I'm forgetting things!

It does seem to be quite the family curse, with a lot of deaths to look into, though very long ago. I'm afraid I've not read the previous books so I really don't know how Tess works. Tony seems to be a very handy helper, and I presume, a love interest, at least potentially.

Me, too. About a third of the way through the book and stopping here till we start.

And they might like them fat, in foreign parts!

Apparently white slavers were quite the thing many years ago.