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

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

I just got the word that Paperback Parlor is in for pick-up at the library!

Hmmm. It seems we have a number of alternative endings!

My library has Paperback Parlor, so I will be on board with that one!

I am not offended. I just want to enjoy book discussions with nice people. By and large, we are VERY good at this!

Meanwhile, I don't think I will be on board for the Danielle book discussion, since my sizeable area library system doesn't have the book at all! I'm surprised!

No one in particular, Jill.

Am I seeing things correctly that Haunting Danielle is the one people HAVEN'T already read, and that that is what we are selecting for a main read?

And Tina, I agree, in principle, that if people aren't joining in on the book they voted for, if it is selected, we can go on to the second place one. Unfortunately, we don't always know this before some people have already got or even started the original selection.

Tina, I too, was surprised by how the tight-lipped people burst forth with their stories late in the game. I guess this is attributed to the skill Beryl and Edwina had in getting people to talk.

I was thinking about the solution, which was quite unexpected. I'm not sure that there was any way we could have figured this out. On the other hand, the solution was sensible and the two detectives came upon it with proper investigative work. It was interesting that they worked mostly separately, dividing up the interviews between them to the one who could do it best. But shared everything well. They could persuade the reluctant witnesses to come through with the proper information, which seems to be their top skill.

I agree with the top vote being the main and the second place being the side read. If there is a tie, we can pick one as the main and one as the side. I've not read either of the top two, so I'll be on board with one of them.

Me, three. I was sure Agnes was dead and buried in the stick pile. (Not really that last part!)

I'm not sure I had Hortense in the picture ever, just that she seemed a little snotty! The change in identity was also unexpected.

No I didn't. I don't think I'm familiar with Drizzled. Did enjoy the writing, as I said. Also the details of English life in a village right after the first world war.

I have to say, I am liking the straightforward way the sleuths are doing the investigation. And of course, the author's writing, clean and not over wordy.

Well, I was wrong. [Sigh]

I'm OK with a main and a side, but I will probably just pick one of them to read.

Well, here is our final section. I'm not done yet, so I can't put in any spoilers just yet, but hope to finish later today.

The investigation is really quite nice. The two ladies are working mostly separately, but diligently. Some of the inquiries seem a good bit impertinent, for an English village at this time, which is probably why Edwina, at least, is in danger a good bit.

My money is still on Norah at this point, due to a strange need to protect her brother.

I'm ready to move on, about 50 pages left. I'll start the final section right away.

A lot of people call afternoon tea, "high tea", which is something different, a complete meal. Afternoon tea includes a lot of nibbles, both sweet and savory. I attended a few locally. They are enjoyable, though pricey, given the tony places that do such things.

I'm not sure how any people are this far, but later in this section we meet the projectionist at the movies who was injured badly in the war and wears a "tin mask". I googled them and found a lot of photos. It is really spooky and sad that this was needed in the first place, and that people were injured so badly that they wanted to wear these things.

Nicole, I have just one more chapter in this section to go and I will start the final section. So far, Edwina was attacked again, in her very own house? Lots of suspicious characters, the lawyer, the projectionist, Hortense, but my money is still on Norah. We'll see!

I'm trying to race through the book--I have a lot of reading for next week's Female Sleuth class (which is going wonderfully well. I met with the instructor after call for a long chat about mysteries, and she inquired whether I wanted to present in the class, if they do it again!)