May is just around the corner - this spring has really flown! The first week of May at B&N's Mystery Forum starts on April 30. As always, there will be more guest blogs added as the month goes on.
Here's the schedule:
Week of April 30 – Featured Visit with Katherine Hall Page
The Body in the Boudoir (Faith Fairchild Series #20)
Week of May 7 – DOUBLE FEATURE!
Featured Visit with Nancy Atherton
Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch (Aunt Dimity Series #17)
~and~
Featured Visit with M. William Phelps
Tuesday, May 8 - Guest blog by Jacqueline Seewald
Wednesday, May 9 - Guest blog by William Landay
Week of May 14 – Featured Visit with Jefferson Bass
The Bone Yard (Body Farm Series #6)
Week of May 21 – Featured Visit with Beth Groundwater
Week of May 28: American Mystery Classics: Frederick Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee (Ellery Queen)
In the Queens' Parlor and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Tuesday, May 29: Guest blog by Julia Heaberlin
Normally in June we have our Month of Cozy(ish) Crime but I'm changing the schedule a bit:
SEPTEMBER will be our Month of Suspense and Thrillers and
OCTOBER will be our Month of Cozy(ish) Crime.
If you are an author or publicist, contact me soon if you'd like to be included in these featured months - the featured slots fill up quickly!
More updates:
Jacqueline Seewald's guest blog will now appear this coming Friday, May 11.
We will have a guest blog from Tamar Myers on Thursday, May 10.
The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots
Thanks!
Updates for the rest of the month:
Week of May 14 – Featured Visit with Jefferson Bass
Tuesday, May 15 - Guest Blog by Craig Johnson
Tuesday, May 29: Guest blog by Julia Heaberlin
eadieburke wrote:
Thanks, Becke! I'll try to read one of her books over the weekend. Gotta read WICKED EDDIES first!
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
Becke: Are we still reading Ellery Queen? I thought there was a discussion to read someone else but I don't recall which topic it's under. Could you clarifly who we are discussing week of 5/28? Thanks!Ellery Queen was originally scheduled but I had a couple requests to reschedule that one so people would have more time to read the books.
As an alternative I'm going with Doris Miles Disney - a few of you have copies of her old books, but they aren't all that easy to find. So I'm going to treat this as an introduction to her work - if any of you have read the books, that would be wonderful. If not, you'll get to meet a classic author and hopefully you'll come across used copies of her books someplace. (I keep hoping they'll be reissued, but that hasn't happened so far.)
From Wikipedia:
Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and died in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Disney wrote 49 novels. Many of her novels were both best sellers and the bases for major feature films.
Disney was known for her character development and the creative mystery surrounding her plots. Most of her main characters were based on acquaintances known to her or her daughter, Elizabeth. Disney liked to use her society experiences as a female character base for novels.
She was survived by one daughter, Elizabeth Miles Disney, a writer and theater actress, as well as a granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Laing.
Novels
- A Compound for Death (1943)
- Murder on a Tangent (1945)
- Dark Road (1946)
- Who Rides a Tiger (1946)
- Appointment at Nine (1947)
- Enduring Old Charms (1947)
- Testimony by Silence (1948)
- That Which Is Crooked (1948)
- Count the Ways (1949)
- Family Skeleton (1949)
- Fire at Will (1950)
- Look Back on Murder (1951)
- Straw Man (1951)
- Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952)
- Do Unto Others (1953)
- Prescription: Murder (1953)
- The Last Straw (1954)
- Trick or Treat (1955)
- Room for Murder (1955)
- Unappointed Rounds (1956)
- Method in Madness (1957)
- My Neighbor's Wife (1957)
- Black Mail (1958)
- Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959)
- No Next of Kin (1959)
- Dark Lady (1960)
- Mrs. Meeker's Money (1961)
- Find the Woman (1962)
- Should Auld Acquaintance (1962)
- Here Lies… (1963)
- The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (1964)
- The Hospitality of the House (1964)
- Shadow of a Man (1965)
- At Some Forgotten Door (1966)
- The Magic Grandfather (1966)
- Night of Clear Choice (1967)
- Money for the Taking (1968)
- Voice from the Grave (1968)
- Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1970)
- The Chandler Policy (1971)
- Three's a Crowd (1971)
- The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972)
- Only Couples Need Apply (1973)
- Don't Go Into the Woods Today (1974)
- Cry for Help (1975)
- Winifred (1976)
Good luck finding one! There are a few available through BN.com as used copies, such as this one:
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:Thanks, Becke! I'll try to read one of her books over the weekend. Gotta read WICKED EDDIES first!
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
Becke: Are we still reading Ellery Queen? I thought there was a discussion to read someone else but I don't recall which topic it's under. Could you clarifly who we are discussing week of 5/28? Thanks!Ellery Queen was originally scheduled but I had a couple requests to reschedule that one so people would have more time to read the books.
As an alternative I'm going with Doris Miles Disney - a few of you have copies of her old books, but they aren't all that easy to find. So I'm going to treat this as an introduction to her work - if any of you have read the books, that would be wonderful. If not, you'll get to meet a classic author and hopefully you'll come across used copies of her books someplace. (I keep hoping they'll be reissued, but that hasn't happened so far.)
From Wikipedia:
Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and died in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Disney wrote 49 novels. Many of her novels were both best sellers and the bases for major feature films.
Disney was known for her character development and the creative mystery surrounding her plots. Most of her main characters were based on acquaintances known to her or her daughter, Elizabeth. Disney liked to use her society experiences as a female character base for novels.
She was survived by one daughter, Elizabeth Miles Disney, a writer and theater actress, as well as a granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Laing.
Novels
- A Compound for Death (1943)
- Murder on a Tangent (1945)
- Dark Road (1946)
- Who Rides a Tiger (1946)
- Appointment at Nine (1947)
- Enduring Old Charms (1947)
- Testimony by Silence (1948)
- That Which Is Crooked (1948)
- Count the Ways (1949)
- Family Skeleton (1949)
- Fire at Will (1950)
- Look Back on Murder (1951)
- Straw Man (1951)
- Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952)
- Do Unto Others (1953)
- Prescription: Murder (1953)
- The Last Straw (1954)
- Trick or Treat (1955)
- Room for Murder (1955)
- Unappointed Rounds (1956)
- Method in Madness (1957)
- My Neighbor's Wife (1957)
- Black Mail (1958)
- Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959)
- No Next of Kin (1959)
- Dark Lady (1960)
- Mrs. Meeker's Money (1961)
- Find the Woman (1962)
- Should Auld Acquaintance (1962)
- Here Lies… (1963)
- The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (1964)
- The Hospitality of the House (1964)
- Shadow of a Man (1965)
- At Some Forgotten Door (1966)
- The Magic Grandfather (1966)
- Night of Clear Choice (1967)
- Money for the Taking (1968)
- Voice from the Grave (1968)
- Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1970)
- The Chandler Policy (1971)
- Three's a Crowd (1971)
- The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972)
- Only Couples Need Apply (1973)
- Don't Go Into the Woods Today (1974)
- Cry for Help (1975)
- Winifred (1976)
Good luck finding one! There are a few available through BN.com as used copies, such as this one:
I have 4 of her books:
Black Mail
No Next of Kin
The Magic Grandfather
Voice From The Grave
I'm going to read VOICE FROM THE GRAVE. It's only 160 pages so won't take too long to read.
eadieburke wrote:
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
Thanks, Becke! I'll try to read one of her books over the weekend. Gotta read WICKED EDDIES first!
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
Becke: Are we still reading Ellery Queen? I thought there was a discussion to read someone else but I don't recall which topic it's under. Could you clarifly who we are discussing week of 5/28? Thanks!Ellery Queen was originally scheduled but I had a couple requests to reschedule that one so people would have more time to read the books.
As an alternative I'm going with Doris Miles Disney - a few of you have copies of her old books, but they aren't all that easy to find. So I'm going to treat this as an introduction to her work - if any of you have read the books, that would be wonderful. If not, you'll get to meet a classic author and hopefully you'll come across used copies of her books someplace. (I keep hoping they'll be reissued, but that hasn't happened so far.)
From Wikipedia:
Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and died in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Disney wrote 49 novels. Many of her novels were both best sellers and the bases for major feature films.
Disney was known for her character development and the creative mystery surrounding her plots. Most of her main characters were based on acquaintances known to her or her daughter, Elizabeth. Disney liked to use her society experiences as a female character base for novels.
She was survived by one daughter, Elizabeth Miles Disney, a writer and theater actress, as well as a granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Laing.
Novels
- A Compound for Death (1943)
- Murder on a Tangent (1945)
- Dark Road (1946)
- Who Rides a Tiger (1946)
- Appointment at Nine (1947)
- Enduring Old Charms (1947)
- Testimony by Silence (1948)
- That Which Is Crooked (1948)
- Count the Ways (1949)
- Family Skeleton (1949)
- Fire at Will (1950)
- Look Back on Murder (1951)
- Straw Man (1951)
- Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952)
- Do Unto Others (1953)
- Prescription: Murder (1953)
- The Last Straw (1954)
- Trick or Treat (1955)
- Room for Murder (1955)
- Unappointed Rounds (1956)
- Method in Madness (1957)
- My Neighbor's Wife (1957)
- Black Mail (1958)
- Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959)
- No Next of Kin (1959)
- Dark Lady (1960)
- Mrs. Meeker's Money (1961)
- Find the Woman (1962)
- Should Auld Acquaintance (1962)
- Here Lies… (1963)
- The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (1964)
- The Hospitality of the House (1964)
- Shadow of a Man (1965)
- At Some Forgotten Door (1966)
- The Magic Grandfather (1966)
- Night of Clear Choice (1967)
- Money for the Taking (1968)
- Voice from the Grave (1968)
- Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1970)
- The Chandler Policy (1971)
- Three's a Crowd (1971)
- The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972)
- Only Couples Need Apply (1973)
- Don't Go Into the Woods Today (1974)
- Cry for Help (1975)
- Winifred (1976)
Good luck finding one! There are a few available through BN.com as used copies, such as this one:
I have 4 of her books:
Black Mail
No Next of Kin
The Magic Grandfather
Voice From The Grave
I'm going to read VOICE FROM THE GRAVE. It's only 160 pages so won't take too long to read.
Most of her books are relatively short - that was the norm in the Sixties, as I recall. Like Agatha Christie's books - they are so much shorter than most mysteries today!
Another guest blog! The next one will be tomorrow, written by Misa Ramirez, who also writes as Melissa Bourbon and Melissa Bourbon Ramirez:
A Fitting End (Dressmaker's Mystery Series #2)
Pleating for Mercy (Dressmaker's Mystery Series #1)
The Tricked Out Toolbox Promotion and Marketing Tools Every Writer Needs Deadly Patterns
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:Thanks, Becke! I'll try to read one of her books over the weekend. Gotta read WICKED EDDIES first!
becke_davis wrote:
eadieburke wrote:
Becke: Are we still reading Ellery Queen? I thought there was a discussion to read someone else but I don't recall which topic it's under. Could you clarifly who we are discussing week of 5/28? Thanks!Ellery Queen was originally scheduled but I had a couple requests to reschedule that one so people would have more time to read the books.
As an alternative I'm going with Doris Miles Disney - a few of you have copies of her old books, but they aren't all that easy to find. So I'm going to treat this as an introduction to her work - if any of you have read the books, that would be wonderful. If not, you'll get to meet a classic author and hopefully you'll come across used copies of her books someplace. (I keep hoping they'll be reissued, but that hasn't happened so far.)
From Wikipedia:
Doris Miles Disney (December 22, 1907 – March 9, 1976) was an American mystery writer. She was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and died in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Disney wrote 49 novels. Many of her novels were both best sellers and the bases for major feature films.
Disney was known for her character development and the creative mystery surrounding her plots. Most of her main characters were based on acquaintances known to her or her daughter, Elizabeth. Disney liked to use her society experiences as a female character base for novels.
She was survived by one daughter, Elizabeth Miles Disney, a writer and theater actress, as well as a granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Laing.
Novels
- A Compound for Death (1943)
- Murder on a Tangent (1945)
- Dark Road (1946)
- Who Rides a Tiger (1946)
- Appointment at Nine (1947)
- Enduring Old Charms (1947)
- Testimony by Silence (1948)
- That Which Is Crooked (1948)
- Count the Ways (1949)
- Family Skeleton (1949)
- Fire at Will (1950)
- Look Back on Murder (1951)
- Straw Man (1951)
- Heavy, Heavy Hangs (1952)
- Do Unto Others (1953)
- Prescription: Murder (1953)
- The Last Straw (1954)
- Trick or Treat (1955)
- Room for Murder (1955)
- Unappointed Rounds (1956)
- Method in Madness (1957)
- My Neighbor's Wife (1957)
- Black Mail (1958)
- Did She Fall or Was She Pushed? (1959)
- No Next of Kin (1959)
- Dark Lady (1960)
- Mrs. Meeker's Money (1961)
- Find the Woman (1962)
- Should Auld Acquaintance (1962)
- Here Lies… (1963)
- The Departure of Mr. Gaudette (1964)
- The Hospitality of the House (1964)
- Shadow of a Man (1965)
- At Some Forgotten Door (1966)
- The Magic Grandfather (1966)
- Night of Clear Choice (1967)
- Money for the Taking (1968)
- Voice from the Grave (1968)
- Two Little Children and How They Grew (1969)
- Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate (1970)
- The Chandler Policy (1971)
- Three's a Crowd (1971)
- The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared (1972)
- Only Couples Need Apply (1973)
- Don't Go Into the Woods Today (1974)
- Cry for Help (1975)
- Winifred (1976)
Good luck finding one! There are a few available through BN.com as used copies, such as this one:
I have 4 of her books:
Black Mail
No Next of Kin
The Magic Grandfather
Voice From The Grave
I'm going to read VOICE FROM THE GRAVE. It's only 160 pages so won't take too long to read.
Most of her books are relatively short - that was the norm in the Sixties, as I recall. Like Agatha Christie's books - they are so much shorter than most mysteries today!
Lakeland Library Cooperative (my local library is a member) has bunches of her books available for inter-library loan. I just requested "Only Couples Need Apply." I'll let you all know what it's like!
