[Publib] cozy mysteries and book groups

Kerry Howell howellkerryl at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 1 17:34:45 EDT 2007


They are a combo of Golden Age and cozies, but I
really love the Patricia Wentworth Miss Maud Silver
series. You can do a compare/contrast with Miss
Marple. Wentworth more explicitly addresed the post
WWII cultural changes than Christie. 

Kerry Howell

--- elizabeth fraser <kcplmove at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>    We've done a couple of successful summers of
> women mystery writers as a
> book group topic.   We are thinking of doing cozies
> next summer.  Does
> anyone have recommendations of cozies that would
> also be good discussion
> books?
> 
>   If anyone is looking for a good mystery discussion
> to do we are doing the
> Femme Fatale reprints by Feminist Press this summer.
> Since you have the
> mystery and the role of women as authors and
> characters, we've found them to
> be very popular.
> http://feministpress.org/catalog/?category_id=71
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Elizabeth
> 
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> Kanawha County Public Library
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> Charleston WV 25301
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