Knitting detectives

Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Sefton http://www.maggiesefton.com/ has a young woman who has
been working on the East Coast but inherits her aunt's property, right
next to a LYS; she is soon learning to knit herself. Three books so
far.
Mary Kruger has a long-time East Coast knitter getting surprised when
someone is killed. Two books so far.

Cece

Wow, I didn't know it was a series. I read "Knit one, Kill Two" and really
liked it. It even gave the scarf pattern in the back of the book. I'll
have to look for the other books. Thanks Cece!

Christy


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Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Sefton http://www.maggiesefton.com/ has a young woman who has
been working on the East Coast but inherits her aunt's property, right
next to a LYS; she is soon learning to knit herself. Three books so
far.
Mary Kruger has a long-time East Coast knitter getting surprised when
someone is killed. Two books so far.

Cece

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Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Sefton http://www.maggiesefton.com/ has a young woman who has
been working on the East Coast but inherits her aunt's property, right
next to a LYS; she is soon learning to knit herself. Three books so
far.
Mary Kruger has a long-time East Coast knitter getting surprised when
someone is killed. Two books so far.

Cece

I read one of the Mary Kruger books. The second one (I think) and it was a
huge bore. The Maggie Sefton books, well, the first and second ones weren't
too bad, but the third one wasn't very good. It's too bad, because I love
the idea of knitting detectives.

Shelagh

Wasn't Agatha CHristie's Miss Marple a knitter?

Georgia

"Cece" wrote in message
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Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Sefton http://www.maggiesefton.com/ has a young woman who has
been working on the East Coast but inherits her aunt's property, right
next to a LYS; she is soon learning to knit herself. Three books so
far.
Mary Kruger has a long-time East Coast knitter getting surprised when
someone is killed. Two books so far.

Cece

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:40:47 -0500, Georgia wrote:

Wasn't Agatha CHristie's Miss Marple a knitter?

Georgia

Indeed she was Georgia.

There is an article at
http://www.answers.com/topic/miss-marple which gives a a lot of
information on how Agatha Christie developed Miss Marple's character after
the first novel was published.

Bernadette


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Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the detectives.
Maggie Sefton http://www.maggiesefton.com/ has a young woman who has
been working on the East Coast but inherits her aunt's property, right
next to a LYS; she is soon learning to knit herself. Three books so
far.
Mary Kruger has a long-time East Coast knitter getting surprised when
someone is killed. Two books so far.

Cece

Bernadette wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:40:47 -0500, Georgia wrote:

Wasn't Agatha CHristie's Miss Marple a knitter?

Georgia

Indeed she was Georgia.

There is an article at
http://www.answers.com/topic/miss-marple which gives a a lot of
information on how Agatha Christie developed Miss Marple's character after
the first novel was published.

Bernadette

The article does not mention that, in at least one of the books, Miss
Marple is described as knitting "in the Continental fashion, with the
needles held low in her lap".

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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Wasn't Agatha CHristie's Miss Marple a knitter?

Georgia

The one I get a kick out of is the series of "Miss Silver" detective novels
written years ago by Patricia Wentworth back in the '40's. I only heard
about and started reading them in the last 4 or 5 years. My friend Mary Pat
sent me a couple of the paperbacks in a knitting exchange and it started
from that. I have also found some of the books in old "used books" stores.

She's always knitting stockings or sweaters for various babies in her
family. ;)

Shelagh

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:52:42 -0500, Olwyn Mary wrote:

Bernadette wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:40:47 -0500, Georgia wrote:

Wasn't Agatha CHristie's Miss Marple a knitter?

Georgia

Indeed she was Georgia.

There is an article at
http://www.answers.com/topic/miss-marple which gives a a lot of
information on how Agatha Christie developed Miss Marple's character
after the first novel was published.

Bernadette

The article does not mention that, in at least one of the books, Miss
Marple is described as knitting "in the Continental fashion, with the
needles held low in her lap".

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I don't understand what you mean Olwyn Mary. The article doesn't mention
what?

I was referring to the third paragraph in the article which says:
quote
"wearing a black lace cap and mittens, constantly knitting." and "The
first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, sees a markedly different
Marple from the one who would appear in later books, as she modernised and
became nicer over the years." end quote

That refers both to her knitting and the changes made to Miss Marple's
personality after the first book, as I read it.

Bernadette

Bernadette wrote:

There is an article at
http://www.answers.com/topic/miss-marple which gives a a lot of
information on how Agatha Christie developed Miss Marple's character
after the first novel was published.

Bernadette
The article does not mention that, in at least one of the books, Miss
Marple is described as knitting "in the Continental fashion, with the
needles held low in her lap".

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I don't understand what you mean Olwyn Mary. The article doesn't mention
what?

I was referring to the third paragraph in the article which says:
quote
"wearing a black lace cap and mittens, constantly knitting." and "The
first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, sees a markedly different
Marple from the one who would appear in later books, as she modernised and
became nicer over the years." end quote

That refers both to her knitting and the changes made to Miss Marple's
personality after the first book, as I read it.

Bernadette

I was quoting from one of the later books, which explained why Miss
Marple was able to give her full attention to her visitor.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.




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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:51:42 -0500, Olwyn Mary wrote:

Bernadette wrote:

There is an article at
http://www.answers.com/topic/miss-marple which gives a a lot of
information on how Agatha Christie developed Miss Marple's character
after the first novel was published.

Bernadette
The article does not mention that, in at least one of the books, Miss
Marple is described as knitting "in the Continental fashion, with the
needles held low in her lap".

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

I don't understand what you mean Olwyn Mary. The article doesn't mention
what?

I was referring to the third paragraph in the article which says:
quote
"wearing a black lace cap and mittens, constantly knitting." and "The
first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage, sees a markedly
different Marple from the one who would appear in later books, as she
modernised and became nicer over the years." end quote

That refers both to her knitting and the changes made to Miss Marple's
personality after the first book, as I read it.

Bernadette

I was quoting from one of the later books, which explained why Miss Marple
was able to give her full attention to her visitor.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Thank you for explaining. I thought I'd lost the thread somewhere along
the way - not a good thing to do when you're discussing detectives! LOL

Just think of it as one of my "senior moments" ;-)

Bernadette