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Too many bestselling mystery authors are dying. As much as I enjoy, even love, mysteries, I find saying goodbye difficult. Yet, last month another author I followed left us.
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Another mystery author gone - Dick Francis
According to the Telegraph, mystery/thriller author Dick Francis, 89, passed away at his home in Grand Cayman today, February 14, 2010.
Francis not only had a successful career at a National Hunt jockey, but he became a best selling author, drawing on his experience and expertise as a jockey. I remember reading one of his books that had a jockey crashed beneath him and thinking, "That sounds so realistic." His descriptions and details were believable because he had lived them.
He wrote 42 thrillers over 40 years and had worldwide sales of over 60 million, according his his obituary.
Quoting from the obituary in the Telegraph: Where other thriller writers probed the darker crannies of the soul, Francis reaffirmed the values of human decency and the struggle between the man of good against the forces of lust for power, dishonesty and greed. Heroes can expect to be chained, beaten, burned or flayed two or three times per book – but good always triumphs in the end.
Dick's beloved wife, Mary, died in 2000, and many rumors have her actually writing the books with his name on the covers. He said he could never have written without her, and that he wished she would allow him to have "by Dick and Mary Francis" on the books. Again from the obituary: "It is not the case that Mary writes the books," claimed her husband. "I do all the stories. I write them out in longhand. She then reads and edits them, because she can manage my handwriting, and I put them into the computer."
Dick Francis is survived by two sons, Merrick and Felix. Felix helped write his father's last four novels. Even Money came out in September 2009 and Crossfire is due to be released autumn 2010.
Good bye, Dick. I, for one, will miss your novels. You gave me a glimpse into another world and allowed me to enjoy it. |
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Words from Our Readers
Last month I digressed from a "true" Mystery Newsletter to one about the mystery of two people managing to stay together for 48 years, even though they are so different. Thank you for accepting and seeming to enjoy that newsletter.
I want to share some comments left by readers.
esprit 
Viv, I enjoyed this edition very much--I can relate to the problems and solutions as another who has survived many years of togetherness in April. I wouldn't have had it any other way either. My thanks for this one is a few weeks late, but I couldn't let it go.
Kyna 
You're right, it isn't a classic mystery newsletter. I just thought to let you know that i still liked it. I was touched, and beyond that it is nice to know that opposites that attract can also stay together, and not just in stories.
Thanks again!
THANKFUL SONALI Now What? 
You hope we don't mind?
Viv - I LOVE your take on the Mystery NL! It's creative, it's real, it's beautiful!
Thanks! - Sonali
billwilcox
Viv,
Your newsletter on the mystery of two opposite people staying together really made me smile. I've been married for twenty-some-odd years now and it completely baffles me when I think how different we are as people, yet stay so much in love. Opposites attract? You damn right they do 
J D Webb
Beautifully said, Vivian. Didn't mind the departure at all.
Angelica- Happy May 5th! 
Great newsletter Viv! Hehehe I don't mind at all.
Thank you for joining me again this month.
Viv |
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Mystery: March 17, 2010 Issue [#3612]
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