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FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/24/01, 3:36 PM

You all did so well last time around, here's another stumper for you.
Patron remembers reading a review or feature in the New York Times about 4-5
years ago about a series of mysteries written by a woman who was an
architect working at one of the big firms in NYC. He believes all the
mysteries feature some NYC famous building (or at least talk a great deal
about some building, even if it is imaginary) but he is not sure whether the
protagonist is an architect or not. According to the piece he read, the
series was so successful that the author was going to give up her day job
and concentrate on her writing. Any ideas anyone? TIA.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: "Clark, Nancy E." <[removed]@ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 3/24/01, 6:22 PM

Mary,

This may be S.J. Rozan. She's won both the Anthony and the Shamus mystery
awards for her Bill Smith/Lydia Chin mystery series, and she's been an
architect for 20 years. The firm she works for specializes in historical
renovations. The protags are both PIs, and the books don't necessarily
involve famous buildings, but they do tend to take place in NYC.

I had the pleasure of having lunch with S.J. while she was in Anchorage for
the Left Coast Crime 2001 conference in February, and she said she's only
been working part-time at the firm lately, and will probably retire when her
current architectural project is finished.

Does this sound close enough to you?

Nancy Clark
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Anchorage Municipal Libraries


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Rindfleisch [[removed]@biblio.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Architect/Mystery Author Query
>
> You all did so well last time around, here's another stumper for you.
> Patron remembers reading a review or feature in the New York Times about
> 4-5
> years ago about a series of mysteries written by a woman who was an
> architect working at one of the big firms in NYC. He believes all the
> mysteries feature some NYC famous building (or at least talk a great deal
> about some building, even if it is imaginary) but he is not sure whether
> the
> protagonist is an architect or not. According to the piece he read, the
> series was so successful that the author was going to give up her day job
> and concentrate on her writing. Any ideas anyone? TIA.
>
> Mary Rindfleisch
> Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
> Ridgefield Library
> 472 Main St.
> Ridgefield, CT 06877
> Phone: 203-438-2282
> e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org
>
>
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FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 3/26/01, 11:14 AM

Patron came and took a couple of these -- wasn't sure they were what he was
after, but was happy to give them a try. Thanks for the tip!

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Clark, Nancy E.
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 7:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: Architect/Mystery Author Query


Mary,

This may be S.J. Rozan. She's won both the Anthony and the Shamus mystery
awards for her Bill Smith/Lydia Chin mystery series, and she's been an
architect for 20 years. The firm she works for specializes in historical
renovations. The protags are both PIs, and the books don't necessarily
involve famous buildings, but they do tend to take place in NYC.

I had the pleasure of having lunch with S.J. while she was in Anchorage for
the Left Coast Crime 2001 conference in February, and she said she's only
been working part-time at the firm lately, and will probably retire when her
current architectural project is finished.

Does this sound close enough to you?

Nancy Clark
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Anchorage Municipal Libraries


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Rindfleisch [[removed]@biblio.org]
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 12:28 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Architect/Mystery Author Query
>
> You all did so well last time around, here's another stumper for you.
> Patron remembers reading a review or feature in the New York Times about
> 4-5
> years ago about a series of mysteries written by a woman who was an
> architect working at one of the big firms in NYC. He believes all the
> mysteries feature some NYC famous building (or at least talk a great deal
> about some building, even if it is imaginary) but he is not sure whether
> the
> protagonist is an architect or not. According to the piece he read, the
> series was so successful that the author was going to give up her day job
> and concentrate on her writing. Any ideas anyone? TIA.
>
> Mary Rindfleisch
> Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
> Ridgefield Library
> 472 Main St.
> Ridgefield, CT 06877
> Phone: 203-438-2282
> e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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