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[purpletigron]

I'm reading the 'Falco' series for the first time, as I didn't get into 'The Silver Pigs' on my first attempt. Now I'm hooked (and not just on Helena Justina :-) and I've just finished 'The Accusers'. So the pointer to Steven Saylor is timely indeed.

Meanwhile, lots of exciting plans for today, the least of which is to visit Sainzburgz to buy more of their own-brand Organic cat food in Poncey Trays (TM) ... the Boof!er is addicted...

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[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I think The Silver Pigs might be in the BBC online archives somewhere!

I've not tried many other authors - just the Cadfael and Sister Fidelma series. Unfortunately, my local branch library holds none of the Steven Saylor books, so I will have to get them from the central library.

Thanks for the tips!

[loveandgarbage.livejournal.com]

The adaptations are available on CD from BBC worldwide (and I've seen them for donwload from the oneword website) and quite well done too.

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

i recently read a collection of short history-mystery stories dedicated to the memory of Ellis Peters. All I can say is that there is a great abundance of crap out there and be deeply suspicious of anything set in Ancient Egypt. Kim Newman had a story in there about Jekyll and Hyde though that was pretty damn good - showed up the rest of the collection rather although they were not by any means all equally crap.