Tipper/Christie/Mystery dabblers
Sparkle Hayter
or less, but there's something about her name. Maybe it's numerological...
Agatha Christie could be very subversive and very good, e.g., _The Clocks_,
or a real hack, e.g., _The Elephant Remembers_ (or was it The Elephant
Forgets? I've forgotten). Josephine Tey was prolific under other names in
other genres, but only wrote 6 mysteries, each of them superb. Georgette
Heyer wrote in several genres also, and the two mysteries of hers that I've
read, _Envious Casca_ and _Behold, Here's Poison_ are near-perfect. I wonder
if writing in different genres strengthened Tey's and Heyer's writing in this
genre?
I remember hearing that the British historical writer Hester Chapman wrote
mysteries as well under a different name. Does anyone know anything about
her?
How about mysteries written by non-genre writers.... didn't Gore Vidal write
one?
Are there other examples?
Sparkle Hayter
author
The Lives and Loves of Professional Wrestlers
Paige-Courtney Morgan
> How about mysteries written by non-genre writers.... didn't Gore Vidal write
> one?
> Are there other examples?
I own a first edition of "The G-String Murders," by none other than Gypsy
Rose Lee. When I bought it, of course, I was a young aspiring cellist, and
thought that it was about an entirely different sort of G string. What a
shock...
Leighton Fansler
aka
Paige Morgan,
back to writing a feminist explication of "The Fall of the House of
Usher."
Sue Kamm
> Tipper's real name is Maryelizabeth? Hmmm. Tipper's politics are fine, more
> or less, but there's something about her name. Maybe it's numerological...
>
> Agatha Christie could be very subversive and very good, e.g., _The Clocks_,
> or a real hack, e.g., _The Elephant Remembers_ (or was it The Elephant
> Forgets? I've forgotten). <snip>
It's Elephants Can Remember. Not one of Dame Agatha's best.
>
> How about mysteries written by non-genre writers.... didn't Gore Vidal write
> one?
>
Gore Vidal wrote three mysteries under the pseudonym Edgar Box, the first of
which was Death in the Fifth Position.
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