Same Book, New Teaser

by Carol12 Comments
Some idiot hollered, "Awooooo!" from the rooftop across the street and dropped some flaming paper that spun a bright orange swirl until it burned itself out halfway down to the sidewalk. These were healthy reminders that this would be a good time to get off the street. (pg. 94, Heat Wave by Richard Castle) I'm still reading this one. I'm thinking my free time should pick back up once school starts. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. I borrowed my copy from the library and the above is my honest opinion. I am an Amazon associate....
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Cambric Tea by Marjorie Bowen

by Carol2 Comments
"Cambric Tea" by Marjorie Bowen A young physician, Bevis Holroyd is called down from London to the bedside of a new patient on Christmas Eve. The man makes the astounding accusation that his wife is poisoning him, lacing his cambric tea with arsenic. Cambric tea as described in the story sounds disgusting by the way, a drink made up of half milk and half warm water. Anyway, the doctor is familiar with this type of case, having just solved assisted in solving a murder mystery involving the same style of poisoning. It's not quite as clear cut a case as it seems at first, however. We slowly learn that the wife and the doctor knew each other previously, had actually been in love at one time. This short tale is full of treachery, jealously, distrust, all the essentials of a good mystery boiled down into just a few pages. It had me engrossed, wondering who was telling the truth, what was actually going...
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Fiction from Fiction

by Carol5 Comments
"This is a homicide investigation. I am not only going to ask you some questions right here and right now, I expect you to answer them. And I'm not worried about whether you have your figures," she snapped her fingers, "right at hand." (pg. 30, Heat Wave by Richard Castle) I'll be starting this one later today. I like Castle the few times I've seen it on TV, mostly because it's a mystery show that makes me laugh to. I'm wondering if the book will have the same type of humor. Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. [tweetmeme source= "carolsnotebook" only_single=false http://carolsnotebook.com/2010/08/03/fiction-from-fiction/] I borrowed  my copy from the library and the above is my honest ...
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The Adventure of the “Gloria Scott” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

by Carol6 Comments
"The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott'" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I don't know why, but every so often I just need a Sherlock Holmes fix, so this week I read "The Adventure of the 'Gloria Scott'" which first appeared in The Strand Magazine and was included in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published December 1893. I'm sure I've read this before, but it's not one that stuck in my memory, although it was Holmes' first case. Holmes finally decides to tell Watson about the first case he was involved in, while he was in college. "You never heard me talk of Victor Trevor?" he asked. "He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. I was never a very sociable fellow, Watson, always rather fond of moping in my rooms and working out my own little methods of thought, so that I never mixed much with the men of my...
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Did she die that day?

by Carol5 Comments
Hesitantly Abby asked, "Did the girl, Sammy, did she die that day?" "I don't know," Felicia said. "For Link the war ended that day; he never referred to her again." (The Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm) They are referring to characters in a novel that Abby's father wrote, a book that includes a lot of details from his real life in a fictionalized way. When you're reading a book, do you ever wonder how much is drawn from the author's true life experiences? Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers. I borrowed  my copy from the library and the above is my honest opinion. I am an Amazon associate....
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The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal by Clarence Rook

by Carol5 Comments
"The Stir Outside the Café Royal" by Clarence Rook I love a good detective story, although this one doesn't quite fit the bill for me. There is not much actual detecting, no showing how the clues are followed. I know nothing about the author other than that he died in 1915. Colonel Mathurin was one of the aristocrats of crime; at least Mathurin was the name under which he had accomplished a daring bank robbery in Detroit which had involved the violent death of the manager, though it was generally believed by the police that the Rossiter who was at the bottom of some long-firm frauds in Melbourne was none other than Mathurin under another name, and that the designer and chief gainer in a sensational murder case in the Midlands was the same mysterious and ubiquitous personage. The story tells how on pleasant, sunny day in London a young American woman, alone in the city, manages to trick this criminal into entering...
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