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FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/19/00, 11:13 AM

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/19/00, 12:07 PM

>From: Mary Van Dyke <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:35:10 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>Help. I' compiling a bibliography of humorous mysteries for a program
>we are having Mar. 16th. Can somebody give me authors or/and titles
>besides Dorothy Cannell, Joan hess, Carolyn Hart, sharon McCrumb or
>M>C> Beaton?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Mary Van Dyke
>Glenview (IL) Public Library
>

Jill Churchill ("Grime & Punishment," etc.).

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FROM: "Joan E. Ludlow" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 2/20/00, 9:22 PM

If you would consider going way back, try Carter Dickson and Frances and
Richard Lockridge.

Joan Ludlow
Hazel Park Library
Hazel Park, Mi.

FROM: "Cynthia Orr" <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 2/21/00, 10:11 AM

We have a list on BookBrowser called Seriously Humorous Mysteries. It
was compiled by Eric Robbins of Morton Grove Public Library with the help
of FictionL members:

<A HREF="http://www.bookbrowser.com/TitleTopic/SerHumMyst.html">http://www.bookbrowser.com/TitleTopic/SerHumMyst.html</A>

Mary Van Dyke wrote:

> Help. I' compiling a bibliography of humorous mysteries for a program
> we are having Mar. 16th. Can somebody give me authors or/and titles
> besides Dorothy Cannell, Joan hess, Carolyn Hart, sharon McCrumb or
> M>C> Beaton?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mary Van Dyke
> Glenview (IL) Public Library

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FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
REC'D: 2/22/00, 8:43 AM

Donald Westlake's Dortmunder books!!!!

Joe Gores's 32 Cadillacs (contains a scene that's another character's view on
an incident in Westake's Drowned Hopes.)

Laugh-out-loud funny.

happy snickering,
Joanne

Joanne Herb
Reader Services
Morris County Library
Whippany, NJ 07981

FROM: <[removed]@mpl.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/22/00, 8:50 AM

At 05:35 PM 02/18/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>
Gillian Roberts and the immortal Sue Grafton !!!!! Also how about
Toni Kelner, Nancy Pickard Marisa Piesman, Elizabeth Peters'Jacqueline
Kirby series, and Evelyn Smith's Miss Melville, Barbara D'Amato's Cat
Marsala series are pretty witty, as are Beverley Connor's books.

Mary

>Help. I' compiling a bibliography of humorous mysteries for a program
>we are having Mar. 16th. Can somebody give me authors or/and titles
>besides Dorothy Cannell, Joan hess, Carolyn Hart, sharon McCrumb or
>M>C> Beaton?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Mary Van Dyke
>Glenview (IL) Public Library
>
>
Mary Zadow
Milton Public Library
45 Bruce St
Milton, Ontario
L9T 2L5

FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/22/00, 10:00 AM

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