#672 - "The Purloined Letters" by Dean Silverberg
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Energize!
Used to really enjoy this detective's antics. May have to delve back in.
Used to really enjoy this detective's antics. May have to delve back in.
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Hate to ask given the number of people that are already on the board, but something just isn't clicking with me. Fairly certain I have the first step but not sure where to go from there... would love a chance to bounce my current progress off someone to see if they can nudge me in the right direction for the final "aha". Thanks.
EDIT - many thanks to norrin2 for the assistance!
EDIT - many thanks to norrin2 for the assistance!
If you see that I’ve completed the MGWCC meta, feel free to DM me and I’ll help you out - nudges, confirmations of paths, etc.
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Number 489 on the leaderboard, my first week three! Learning more each week. At this rate in about 40 years I think I may be in the running for a POE. Onward and Upward!
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Number 489 on the leaderboard, my first week three! Learning more each week. At this rate in about 40 years I think I may be in the running for a POE. Onward and Upward!
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thanks to MaineMarge, I discovered a few errors in my fill and now know the answer.
And it's not what I'd submitted, so time to restart my streak.
DrTom also gets a shoutout for being a sounding board.
And it's not what I'd submitted, so time to restart my streak.
DrTom also gets a shoutout for being a sounding board.
"Lots of planets have a North", the Ninth Doctor.
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Like @Schmeel I also had a vague recollection of the rabbi in the library stacks. Reading about the author led me to this short story, which is definitely worth the quick read. Great Aha moment...
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html
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That was an excellent story. If that's representative of the Rabbi series, I'm definitely going to have to add them to my library.Abide wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:44 pm Like @Schmeel I also had a vague recollection of the rabbi in the library stacks. Reading about the author led me to this short story, which is definitely worth the quick read. Great Aha moment...
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html
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I remember my dad reading all the "On XDay, The Rabbi Did Something" books when I was a kid, so as soon as I had "RABBI" I knew it had to be it.
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My mom similarly read those when I was a kid but I had forgotten all about them before I googled the rabbi's name. The author's photos that came up screamed "I'm a literary dude of the 1970s" like few others.
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Truth be told, I first saw one of the books in the series on my grandfather's shelf. He moved to Israel with my grandmother when I was in my early teens. He didn't bring many books from the States, but he, like me, used to scour the second-hand book shops in Jerusalem looking for good books to read. After I borrowed the book from him, I found the rest of the series in my local library. A trip down memory lane...Abide wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:44 pm Like @Schmeel I also had a vague recollection of the rabbi in the library stacks. Reading about the author led me to this short story, which is definitely worth the quick read. Great Aha moment...
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html
After re-reading 'The Nine-Mile Walk' now, I realize I probably didn't understand a lot of it when I read it at the time. I guess It's time to visit my library again to see if they still have any of the books there.
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At first, I missed the initial "R" and thought the fictional detective was Abbi Small, who I concluded must be a little girl detective from children's fiction like Encyclopedia Brown or Nate the Great that Matt's kid was reading, but then I remembered it was a guest constructor. Then I realized RAID was meant to be RADAR and I found the right answer. I've heard of the series, but haven't read any of it.
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That's a great story, thanks for the link! I really like the Rabbi Small mysteries, I practically memorized the two that I owned (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry), and I read all of the others that I could get from the library. A few years ago I read or re-read some of them that either my library at the time didn't have or that I didn't remember well. They were already dated in the 80s, and more so now (aren't we all), but still very enjoyable. Heavy on the deductive reasoning, light on the car chases. And quite educational about the Jewish faith, which I found very interesting.Abide wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:44 pm Like @Schmeel I also had a vague recollection of the rabbi in the library stacks. Reading about the author led me to this short story, which is definitely worth the quick read. Great Aha moment...
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html
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I went to the Kindle library and found that, because I have Amazon Prime, something like 6 of them are available to read for free. Started #1 this afternoon.Laura M wrote: ↑Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:50 pmThat's a great story, thanks for the link! I really like the Rabbi Small mysteries, I practically memorized the two that I owned (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late and Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry), and I read all of the others that I could get from the library. A few years ago I read or re-read some of them that either my library at the time didn't have or that I didn't remember well. They were already dated in the 80s, and more so now (aren't we all), but still very enjoyable. Heavy on the deductive reasoning, light on the car chases. And quite educational about the Jewish faith, which I found very interesting.Abide wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:44 pm Like @Schmeel I also had a vague recollection of the rabbi in the library stacks. Reading about the author led me to this short story, which is definitely worth the quick read. Great Aha moment...
http://www.101bananas.com/library2/ninemile.html