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04-28-2004, 07:31 PM
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What are the first ten names that come into your mind when someone mentions mystery writers? You don't have to like them or even have read them. Who do you think of?
I'll post the first ten that pop into my head in a separate post so that I don't influence your associations. 
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04-28-2004, 07:33 PM
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OK. Here are mine:
1. Agatha Christie
2. Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Laurie King
4. Elizabeth Peters
5. Perry Nelson
6. Stephen Saylor
7. Faye Kellerman
8. Jonathan Kellerman
9. Ellis Peters
10. Stephanie Barron
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04-28-2004, 07:34 PM
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I'm not a big mystery reader. The only one that popped into my head was Agatha Christie.  |
04-28-2004, 07:36 PM
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If anyone else thinks this will be amusing, I'll post a couple other categories too. Even the ones where I don't think I could come up with 10 names if I spent an hour.
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04-28-2004, 07:42 PM
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1. Christie
2. McBain(?) <-- only know from people looking for his stuff at the annual book sale
3. the guy who wrote Sherlock Holmes -- that's it! Arthur Canon Doyle! (had to think about that for a while)
that's it.
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04-28-2004, 08:13 PM
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Agatha Christie
Rex Stout
Dick Francis
Lilian Jackson Braun
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Higgins Clark
Earl Stanley Gardner
Hmmm. That's just 7. I know I can think of more if I try, mysteries are one of my two fave genres.
Thought of these last night:
Sue Grafton
Andrew Greeley
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04-28-2004, 08:18 PM
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Janet Evanovich
Mignon Eberhart
Dorothy L Sayers
GK Chesterton
Some legal thriller/mystery writers:
John Grisham
Scott Turow
Philip Margolin
Lisa Scottoline
This man wrote about EVERYTHING, including the Black Widowers Society:
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04-28-2004, 09:13 PM
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Agatha Christie
Ngaio Marsh
Rex Stout
Dorothy Sayers
Earl Stanley Gardner
Ellery Queen
Edgar Allan Poe
Arthur Conan Doyle
Margaret Sutton
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04-28-2004, 10:11 PM
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1. Dorothy L. Sayers
2. Agatha Christie
3. Robert B. Parker
4. Lawrence Block
5. Janet Evanovich
6. Anne Perry
7. Ed McBain
8. Sue Grafton
9. Sujata Massey
10. Alexander McCall Smith
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04-28-2004, 10:11 PM
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...I can't for the life of me remember who writes the Mrs. Pollifax mysteries. 
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04-29-2004, 10:00 AM
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Dorothy Gilman!
Blast, I thought of her last night, forgot her this morning. Okay, she's my #10.
I  Mrs. Pollifax - I wanna be her when I get old! Minus the life threatening situations, of course! 
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04-29-2004, 02:17 PM
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Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Arthur Conan Doyle
Rex Stout
Dashiell Hammett
Mickey Spillane
Dick Francis |
04-29-2004, 04:14 PM
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1. Agatha Christie
2. Dorothy L. Sayers
3. Ngaio Marsh
4. Emma Lathen
5. Joan Hess
6. Carolyn G. Hart
7. Dick Francis
8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Rex Stout
10. Ellery Queen
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05-01-2004, 07:53 AM
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1. Rex Stout
2. Raymond Chandler
3. Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Dashiell Hammett
5. Agatha Christie
6. Dorothy L. Sayers
7. Mark Zubro
8. Joseph Hansen
9. Josephine Tey (was Daughter of Time her only mystery?)
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