Carrying on the List From Yesterday
>> Tuesday, March 16, 2010
See, you all probably thought I'd give you all the answers today. Haha, not so fast. I'll be the first to say that I would have struggled to determine some of these books from the first line, but I do know my characters. And, besides, I got the idea from Relax Max. Again. So, for all the ones not guessed, I'm going to provide character names and let you try again. If there was a character mentioned in the first line, I'll assume it wasn't enough and add a second character.
- Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon
- Holly Short
- Mary Lennox and Dicken Sowerby
- Shogun by James Clavell
- Fiver
- Abner Hale
- Marie Ste. Jacques
- Will Graham and Francis Dolarhyde
- Roarke and Niles Renquist
- Death Bredon
It's Peter Death Bredon Whimsey, actually, though I'll be damned if I know which book this is the first line of. I'll have to go through my entire collection, including the short stories (since you pulled Poe on us) and get back to you.
It's one where he's posing as someone named "Death Bredon" but you are on the right tack.
Looking at the first line might help you pinpoint it.
Aha! #10 is Murder Must Advertise. He also snuck around under the name of Death Bredon in the short story "The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste". Yes, I'm a total Lord Peter Wimsey nerd, and if there were an organization for him like the Baker Street Irregulars for Sherlock Holmes, I'd be a charter member!
I have to think about the others.
I bow to you and Roy on Lord Whimsey nerdiness. Many of them I have not read since my teens. And that's a really long time.
It's been a while since I read them, too, but I was thinking I should read them again. Sayers is one of only two mystery writers I truly like. Murder Must Advertise is the first one I read and still a favorite.
Nothing like feeling left out...
Hey, I may be the only one in the world reading this particular combination of books.