Knitting detectives

Cece wrote:
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

Thanks Cece...I have read the Sefton books but had not heard of Mary Kruger
so will look for her books next trip to the book store!

Donna

"Olwyn Mary" wrote in message
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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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Another mystery series, by Patricia Wentworth, the knitter/sleuth was Miss
Silver and that the
way she knitted too! Got to reading them by pulling out all the old covers
in the mystery section
at the public library..some good, but some real stinkers..LOL

Donna in S. Indiana

On Jul 21, 7:33 am, Cece wrote:
Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Seftonhttp://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

Has anyone checked out the mystery novels by Monica Ferris? The
heroine is a middle aged woman who inherits her sister's needlework
shop and seems to have a gift for solving crimes. I love her
supporting characters, especially Godwin DuLac, her store manager. I
just love gay men and he is a doll. Fun reads. There are about 10
books in the series so far.

On Jul 21, 4:52 pm, 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.

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Is that Christie's Miss Marple? Or Wentworth's Miss Silver? I have
run across that exact phrase in two Miss Silver books so far (with one
or two more mentions of Continental and one of German).

Cece

Miss Marple definitely knitted. Several times she was described as
knitting something pink and fluffy.
I don't know Miss Silver.
I enjoyed what I have read of Monica Ferris.

Higs,
Katherine

Cece wrote:

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.


Is that Christie's Miss Marple? Or Wentworth's Miss Silver? I have
run across that exact phrase in two Miss Silver books so far (with one
or two more mentions of Continental and one of German).

Cece

I was writing from memory instead of checking up on my facts, and
probably got the two mixed up. Sorry!.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

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I've read all of them. The 11th in the series, Knitting Bones, is scheduled
to be published in December. One of the reason I enjoy them is that they
are set in a suburb of Minneapolis and I recognize many of the places
mentioned. I met her once at a library book chat and she was very
entertaining.

--
Jan in MN

"Jane" wrote...
Has anyone checked out the mystery novels by Monica Ferris? The
heroine is a middle aged woman who inherits her sister's needlework
shop and seems to have a gift for solving crimes. I love her
supporting characters, especially Godwin DuLac, her store manager. I
just love gay men and he is a doll. Fun reads. There are about 10
books in the series so far.

On Jul 21, 10:40 pm, "Georgia" wrote:
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 Seftonhttp://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.

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OF COURSE SHE WAS ,,,,,, i read somewhere [forgot where] that the
aftress playing it , wasn`t a real knitting lover ,,,, ps ANYONE ever
saw a Finnished knited item , on any Aghata christie film ???
mirjam

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OF COURSE SHE WAS ,,,,,, i read somewhere [forgot where] that the
aftress playing it , wasn`t a real knitting lover ,,,, ps ANYONE ever
saw a Finnished knited item , on any Aghata christie film ???
mirjam


Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC series was a knitter, and
knitted on screen in several of the shows.
http://www.wivenhoe.gov.uk/people/joan_hickson.htm

DA

Don't know if anyone else has mentioned but there is a series of Mrs.
Polifax (sp?) detective novels. She was a knitter. There was a made for TV
movie about one of the books.

Murielle

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On Jul 21, 7:33 am, Cece wrote:
Two mystery authors are writing series with knitters as the
detectives.
Maggie Seftonhttp://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

Has anyone checked out the mystery novels by Monica Ferris? The
heroine is a middle aged woman who inherits her sister's needlework
shop and seems to have a gift for solving crimes. I love her
supporting characters, especially Godwin DuLac, her store manager. I
just love gay men and he is a doll. Fun reads. There are about 10
books in the series so far.