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FROM: Katherine Johnson <[removed]@epnet.com>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 12:31 PM

There seem to have been two queries under the same subject heading. In
response to the query below, I think the story Martha is referring to
may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the author's name handy, and
this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I have seen in any
catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year; it's one of her favorite
books of all time.

It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A brother and sister
are the main characters. There are several magical things that happen
on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black cat named Merlin.

If no one else has this, and you need the author's name, e-mail me
off-line and I'll ask my friend.

Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really good book!

-- Katherine Johnson

Original message:
Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a hotel with no 13th
floor,
but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the nonexistent 13th floor.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha S.

--
Katherine Bradley Johnson
NoveList Database Specialist
NoveList/EBSCO
[removed]@epnet.com
2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
(919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
(919) 489-7263 (fax)

Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der Wahrheit
durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.

FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 12:40 PM

Is anyone besides me receiving duplicate messages from this list?

Martha S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Katherine Johnson [[removed]@epnet.com]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:30 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: 13th title


There seem to have been two queries under the same subject heading. In
response to the query below, I think the story Martha is referring to
may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the author's name handy, and
this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I have seen in any
catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year; it's one of her favorite
books of all time.

It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A brother and sister
are the main characters. There are several magical things that happen
on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black cat named Merlin.

If no one else has this, and you need the author's name, e-mail me
off-line and I'll ask my friend.

Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really good book!

-- Katherine Johnson

Original message:
Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a hotel with no 13th
floor,
but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the nonexistent 13th floor.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Martha S.

--
Katherine Bradley Johnson
NoveList Database Specialist
NoveList/EBSCO
[removed]@epnet.com
2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
(919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
(919) 489-7263 (fax)

Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der Wahrheit
durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.

FROM: "Kathryn Mannix" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 12:45 PM

There is a Niclelodeon movie that is about a hotel that stops on the 13th
floor and there is a reenactment of a party every year I believe. Could
this be a novelization of the movie. I believe that movie was called The
13th Floor.

Kate Mannix
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 12/11/00, 1:03 PM

In a message dated 12/11/2000 1:38:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@usmc-mccs.org writes:

<<
Is anyone besides me receiving duplicate messages from this list?

Martha S. >>

Yes. I've been ignoring them, because they seem to be sporadic.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Joan Ennis <[removed]@selco.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 1:09 PM

Yes!

Spencer Ms Martha wrote:

> Is anyone besides me receiving duplicate messages from this list?
>
> Martha S.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katherine Johnson [[removed]@epnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:30 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: 13th title
>
> There seem to have been two queries under the same subject heading. In
> response to the query below, I think the story Martha is referring to
> may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the author's name handy, and
> this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I have seen in any
> catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year; it's one of her favorite
> books of all time.
>
> It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A brother and sister
> are the main characters. There are several magical things that happen
> on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black cat named Merlin.
>
> If no one else has this, and you need the author's name, e-mail me
> off-line and I'll ask my friend.
>
> Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really good book!
>
> -- Katherine Johnson
>
> Original message:
> Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a hotel with no 13th
> floor,
> but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the nonexistent 13th floor.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha S.
>
> --
> Katherine Bradley Johnson
> NoveList Database Specialist
> NoveList/EBSCO
> [removed]@epnet.com
> 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
> Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
> (919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
> (919) 489-7263 (fax)
>
> Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der Wahrheit
> durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
> durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
> Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.
>
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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 1:13 PM

At 01:30 PM 12/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>There seem to have been two queries under the same subject heading. In
>response to the query below, I think the story Martha is referring to
>may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the author's name handy, and
>this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I have seen in any
>catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year; it's one of her favorite
>books of all time.
>
>It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A brother and sister
>are the main characters. There are several magical things that happen
>on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black cat named Merlin.
>
>If no one else has this, and you need the author's name, e-mail me
>off-line and I'll ask my friend.
>
>Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really good book!
>
>-- Katherine Johnson
>
>Original message:
>Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a hotel with no 13th
>floor,
>but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the nonexistent 13th floor.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Martha S.
>
>--
>Katherine Bradley Johnson
>NoveList Database Specialist
>NoveList/EBSCO
[removed]@epnet.com

THE THIRTEENTH IS MAGIC (1956) is by Joan Howard.

There are, incidentally, quite a few (non-juvenile) fantasy/supernatural
stories about usually-nonexistent-except-sometimes 13th floors: offhand
there's a late 1940s story of that name by Frank Gruber; a long poem by
Ogden Nash called "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor," and another story
(title forgotten) by Christopher Fowler (which appeared either in his
CITY JITTERS or MORE CITY JITTERS). There are comparable stories about
non-existent hotel rooms with same number, among them my favorite M.R.
James story, "No. 13."

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "christine downs" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 1:40 PM

Yes, sometimes.
Christine Kreger


>From: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: 13th title
>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:36:01 -0500
>
>Is anyone besides me receiving duplicate messages from this list?
>
>Martha S.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Katherine Johnson [[removed]@epnet.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:30 AM
>To: Fiction_L
>Subject: 13th title
>
>
>There seem to have been two queries under the same subject heading. In
>response to the query below, I think the story Martha is referring to
>may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the author's name handy, and
>this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I have seen in any
>catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year; it's one of her favorite
>books of all time.
>
>It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A brother and sister
>are the main characters. There are several magical things that happen
>on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black cat named Merlin.
>
>If no one else has this, and you need the author's name, e-mail me
>off-line and I'll ask my friend.
>
>Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really good book!
>
>-- Katherine Johnson
>
>Original message:
>Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a hotel with no 13th
>floor,
>but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the nonexistent 13th floor.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Martha S.
>
>--
>Katherine Bradley Johnson
>NoveList Database Specialist
>NoveList/EBSCO
[removed]@epnet.com
>2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
>Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
>(919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
>(919) 489-7263 (fax)
>
>Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der Wahrheit
>durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
>durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
>Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: Judy Moorhead <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/12/00, 4:14 PM

Yes
--- Joan Ennis <[removed]@selco.lib.mn.us> wrote:
> Yes!
>
> Spencer Ms Martha wrote:
>
> > Is anyone besides me receiving duplicate messages
> from this list?
> >
> > Martha S.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Katherine Johnson
> [[removed]@epnet.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:30 AM
> > To: Fiction_L
> > Subject: 13th title
> >
> > There seem to have been two queries under the same
> subject heading. In
> > response to the query below, I think the story
> Martha is referring to
> > may be "The 13th is Magic." I don't have the
> author's name handy, and
> > this is an out-of-print book that I don't think I
> have seen in any
> > catalogs. A friend loaned it to me last year;
> it's one of her favorite
> > books of all time.
> >
> > It's an apartment building rather than a hotel. A
> brother and sister
> > are the main characters. There are several
> magical things that happen
> > on Friday the 13th's, and a key agent is a black
> cat named Merlin.
> >
> > If no one else has this, and you need the author's
> name, e-mail me
> > off-line and I'll ask my friend.
> >
> > Even if this isn't the right one, it's a really
> good book!
> >
> > -- Katherine Johnson
> >
> > Original message:
> > Looking for the title of a juvenile novel about a
> hotel with no 13th
> > floor,
> > but on Friday the 13th the elevator goes to the
> nonexistent 13th floor.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Martha S.
> >
> > --
> > Katherine Bradley Johnson
> > NoveList Database Specialist
> > NoveList/EBSCO
> > [removed]@epnet.com
> > 2634 Chapel Hill Blvd., Ste. 208
> > Durham, NC 27707-2830 USA
> > (919) 489-9412 x206 (voice)
> > (919) 489-7263 (fax)
> >
> > Die Welt des Märchens ist die, der Welt der
> Wahrheit
> > durchaus entgegengesetzte und eben darum ihr so
> > durchaus ähnlich, wie das Chaos der vollendeten
> > Schöpfung ähnlich ist." -- NOVALIS.
> >
> >
>
......................................................................
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> archives?
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> http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
> >
> >
>
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