| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 361.1 | comics connection | LYMPH::LAMBERT | Innocuous little personal name | Fri May 22 1987 14:49 | 8 |
| In the old comic strip _Brenda Starr_, the man of her affections
("Basil"? - it's something 'continental') had some rare disease which
required a "Black Orchid Syrum", and he maintained a lab in which he bred
them.
Not really a literary masterpiece, but it's a start...
-- Sam
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| 361.2 | From memory -- reinforced by _Books_in_Print_ | SUPER::KENAH | and shun the Furious Ballerinas. | Fri May 22 1987 15:20 | 9 |
| _Black_Orchids_
By
Rex Stout
1986, Bantam Books. An interesting story, as I recall.
andrew
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| 361.3 | | BAEDEV::RECKARD | | Fri May 22 1987 15:44 | 7 |
| Wasn't there an Agatha Christie short by that name?
Also, re: "I've been racking my brains for months trying to remember this."
Rack balls, not brains.
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| 361.4 | Is there a concordance of Cliff Notes? | PSTJTT::TABER | April showers bring May black flies | Fri May 22 1987 16:15 | 6 |
| I think Chas. Dickens or Nat. Hawthorne used the Black Orchid analogy
to describe women in some gathering (a church?) once. It's at the very
edge of my memory, I can see the scene as I envisioned it at the time,
but I can't remember what I was reading...
>>>==>PStJTT
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| 361.5 | what? Only 4 responses? I expected better. | WEBSTR::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Wed May 27 1987 15:22 | 5 |
| The Dickens/Hawthorne source sounds most likely, since I never read
Brenda Starr and the Rex Stout reference is far too new. Agatha
Christie is a possibility. I will continue to investigate . . .
--bonnie
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| 361.6 | | INK::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Wed May 27 1987 16:18 | 5 |
| Re .5:
Nontheless, _Black Orchids_, a Nero Wolfe mystery, is a good read.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 361.7 | It's older than it looks... | SUPER::KENAH | and shun the Furious Ballerinas. | Thu May 28 1987 11:53 | 7 |
| re .4 & .5:
The date mentioned in the Nero Wolfe citation is simply the date of the
release of the Bantam edition, not the original publication date. At a
guess, the book is at least 20 years old.
andrew
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| 361.8 | that's probably it! | CREDIT::RANDALL | Bonnie Randall Schutzman | Thu May 28 1987 14:13 | 11 |
| re .7 and Mr. Wolfe --
Ahah! That makes it VERY likely to be the book I'm looking for!
I will check it out soon.
I had seen a review of Black Orchids that called it a new book, too.
(Not that book reviewers necessarily know what they're talking about.)
I wonder if it was published in England but not in the United States,
or something?
--bonnie, curious now
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| 361.9 | It's older than you think | IRT::BOWERS | Count Zero Interrupt | Thu Jun 04 1987 00:08 | 2 |
| "Black Orchids" is set in pre-WWII N.Y. City and was written well
before 1950, making more like 40 years old.
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| 361.10 | Just being cautious... | HARDY::KENAH | and shun the Furious Ballerinas. | Fri Jun 05 1987 18:48 | 8 |
| >"Black Orchids" is set in pre-WWII N.Y. City and was written well
>before 1950, making more like 40 years old.
Just hedging my bets -- my copy is about ten years old, and I
remembered that it was older than that, but how much older --
well, I drew a blank, so I gave a minimum value.
andrew
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| 361.11 | | AKOV76::BOYAJIAN | I want a hat with cherries | Fri Jul 17 1987 06:05 | 3 |
| BLACK ORCHIDS was first published in 1942.
--- jerry
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| 361.12 | Bibliography is *still* his business... | SUPER::KENAH | Buy Another Pagan Baby! | Fri Jul 17 1987 16:36 | 5 |
| Once again, our resident bibliographer provides the definitive answer-
Thanks, jerry.
andrew
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