I think the last Dick Francis novel I liked was To The Hilt.
I bounced off the next two. I think I tried one of his son's novels, but bounced off that too. That was a long time ago.
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
dcp - Sep 04, 2025 10:14:03 am PDT #28425 of 28427
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
-t - Sep 04, 2025 10:25:30 am PDT #28426 of 28427
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's helpful, thanks
-t - Sep 04, 2025 12:50:27 pm PDT #28427 of 28427
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Trying to remember what Nero Wolfe ish things I am thinking of, because there was something quite recent. There are the short stories that have been running in Ellery Queen for a while where the Archie character is an AI that inhabits a tie pin. I like those but I think they are transitioning into being spy stories rather than mysteries. And there's the one Libby Cudmore that was not in Ellery Queen, what's it called, Alibi in Ice. But there was something else, I am almost certain, that somebody described as Sherlockian that someone else corrected to Nero Wolfe and I was like, oh, right, I get that now but I can't remember what it was. This is gonna bug me.