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Post by Peggy Lane on Mar 10, 2011 9:32:34 GMT -4
MrL was watching a documentary last night about the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic which was turned into a hospital ship during WWI and sank off the coast of Greece while sailing to pick up injured soldiers.
I swear I've read a novel that started with sinking of the Britannic. It centered around either a nurse or a group of nurses. I think one nurse was badly injured during the sinking. I can't remember anything else. Does any of this sound familiar?
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Post by chonies on Mar 10, 2011 11:46:21 GMT -4
MrL was watching a documentary last night about the Britannic, the sister ship of the Titanic which was turned into a hospital ship during WWI and sank off the coast of Greece while sailing to pick up injured soldiers. I swear I've read a novel that started with sinking of the Britannic. It centered around either a nurse or a group of nurses. I think one nurse was badly injured during the sinking. I can't remember anything else. Does any of this sound familiar? , is it A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd? |
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Post by Peggy Lane on Mar 10, 2011 12:09:31 GMT -4
You are a genius. Yes, that's it. I googled for twenty minutes last night and didn't hit upon it.
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Post by eclair on Mar 14, 2011 23:19:51 GMT -4
I'm trying to recall the title and author of a mystery book I read in the last five years, although it might be a little bit older. There might be two books in the series. The protagonist is a private eye, who after some sort of head injury believes that he is Sam Spade. Or a Sam Spade-esque person. It's set in the present, I think in a large city in the East but I'm less sure of this. In the first (only?) book he opens his agency and gets the wardrobe to suit Sam Spade. I think there is an insurance settlement related to the head injury that allows him to do this, but I'm not sure. He also gets a secretary, and she's sort of the Sam Spade dame type. I think the protagonist's family show up, and want him to stop dressing weirdly and being a P.I. and return to his old life, and that bit is a little sad. But overall, the mystery is more cozy than thriller, with some humor.
I've tried searching the mystery sites but just get actual Sam Spade books. I recently remembered the series and wondered if there were more books. Does this ring a bell for any Greecies?
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Post by Ripley on Mar 14, 2011 23:33:22 GMT -4
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Post by eclair on Mar 14, 2011 23:53:25 GMT -4
Yes! Thank you Ripley, I know you're a librarian, but how did you do that? I had just returned to thank incognito for recommending that livejournal site, after I posted there. And I would never have remembered the author or title; neither rings any bells for me but the description matches. There is a second book in the series, which I think I read, but it's been five years, maybe I'll re-read them.
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Post by Ripley on Mar 15, 2011 10:17:42 GMT -4
Yes! Thank you Ripley, I know you're a librarian, but how did you do that? I did a search on Google that looked like this: "sam spade" mysteries "insurance settlement" I looked through the returned responses until I found one that sounded similar to what you requested. |
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Post by eclair on Mar 15, 2011 10:42:05 GMT -4
Aha! And, thanks again. I think I tried "sam spade" and "head injury" and "modern" but not that combo.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2011 8:44:27 GMT -4
I know this is probably a long shot, but I want to ask about this book. It's from around the time I was in middle school, so early 90s. A black girl and a white girl were best friends in elementary school. Then when they went to middle school, the white girl got on the cheerleading team, and a lot of the cheerleaders were racist and encouraged her not to be friends with the black girl anymore.
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Post by jennenen on Oct 23, 2011 15:49:04 GMT -4
I know I usually lurk like it's my job, but I've been trying to figure out the names of these books for AGES.
I read two YA thriller(ish) series when I was in Junior High, but it might have been in Elementary school so probably 90-95ish
One was about a girl who moved to a new town, and got a new (hot) boyfriend. They were friends with a girl and a guy who always dressed in baggy clothing. As time went on it came out that they (accidentally) killed the guy's ex-girlfriend. I remember there was an annoying friend who played an Edith Piaf record to mess with them. Also there was a girl who wore rice powder makeup, and they hung out in a diner and ate linzer cookies. The title had like diary or journal or something in the title.
The other series ALSO had a girl move to a new town and get a new hot boyfriend (seems to be a YA theme), but this time she finds out she (and all her new friends) can shapeshift into panthers (?) and they worshiped Bast. This one might also have diary or journal somewhere in the title.
I have been wanting to reread these for AGES and can't remember the names at ALL. If anyone can figure it out, I'll be your new best friend.
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