Daniel and Nero

[fignewton]

So, I'm rereading an old friend for the nth time - Black Orchids, by Rex Stout - and the murder victim's name is Harry Gould.

I blinked. And then I suddenly became convinced that Daniel and Wolfe have got to meet. Maybe Daniel ends up visiting Wolfe in his cherished house in Cairo, where they stay up half the night talking in half a dozen different languages, while Jack cheerfully matches Wolfe beer bottle for beer bottle and Archie exchanges witty remarks with Sam.  And then they're back in Manhattan for some odd reason, and Wolfe is giving Teal'c a personal tour of the orchids, because flowers are a minor obsession of Teal'c's since he never had a chance to stop and smell the roses, much less the orchids, when he was First Prime, and he's studied the subject enough to hold his own in a conversation with Wolfe. They're trying to out-"Indeed" each other, anyway. And Daniel is in ecstacy over Fritz's coffee. And Lon Cohen and Emmett Bregman go way back - Saul Rubinek, BTW, did some fantastic audiobooks for some of the Nero Wolfe mysteries - and Emmett recommended Lon to the SGC as a reporter who would actually do them justice. And Saul Panzer would help uncover some wicked NID plot and help Jack stop Maybourne before he gets them into trouble.

I can't be the only SG-1 fan out there who loves Nero Wolfe mysteries, now can I?

Comments

Re: Daniel and Nero

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Someone else who even heard of Ngaio Marsh? I am in shock. :)

I thank you for the lovely compliment, but I don't think I could ever do Archie's voice justice. Maybe a corroboration with someone. Someday. First things first: the sdficathon assignment!

Re: Daniel and Nero

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Someone else who even heard of Ngaio Marsh? I am in shock. :)

Oh, I was a bibliophile long before Stargate was a twinkle in Dean Devlin's and Roland Emmerich's eyes.

In fact, in my rebellious youth, I stomped out of the public library at age 12 to complain to my mother that the new assistant librarian wouldn't let me check out Agatha Christie books because they were in the Adult section. (My mother, bless her heart, called the head librarian and she issued me an *adult card* so there wouldn't be any doubt I could read anything I wanted! ::loves librarians::)

So, I read Christie and Sherlock Holmes (actually I'm rereading Holmes at the moment- it's been years), and Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham and Dorothy Sayers. Um- Elizabeth George (gods, those were depressing), and PD James (color me unimpressed). I love Dick Francis. Have just discovered Michael Innes. Bill Knox/Andrew Laird and whatever his third pseudonum was. Elizabeth Peters, Ellis Peters and Barbara Michaels. Aaron Elkins. Heavens, there are dozens. I'm not really up to date except on my favorites, though.

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

If you love librarians - and really, who doesn't? - you should check out Unshelved. I personally have it delivered to my inbox on a weekly basis. :)

I suspect that all fanfic writers - at least good ones! - are major bibliophiles. The shock wasn't that you read; the shock was discovering someone else who read Marsh. She's not exactly mainstream, is she? But I love the patient creation of backstory and characters that we'll never meet again.

I don't read much new stuff of late; I'm a voracious rereader, and rarely buy a book I haven't read at least once already! I'm on my third copy of Watership Down, for instance, and I've lost count of my Tolkiens. :)

The icon is your lovely study, isn't it? Such delightfully full bookcases! Lucky you.

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Cool.. I shall have to check out Unshelved in more depth!

And I was quite shocked to find out that there are fanfic writers who don't read at all. Of course it does explain some things about..er..some authors.

And yes, the icon is from my own library- that's about 2/3 of History. Mysteries occupy three similar shelves. SF and fantasy have six, plus four more freestanding bookcases...we'll be building a few more tall bookcases when the weather gets a little warmer. (We nearly asphyiated ourselves with stain and polyurethane in December, though the warm weather let us open windows for ventilation far later than we could have expected.)

Altogether, my husband and I estimate we've got about 4000 volumes in the permanent collection. There's another 300/400 in the To-Be-Read stack, which is why *I'm* trying not to buy books right now. But it doesn't actually stop me from reading new stuff from the (public) library. And my husband has a lot of books I haven't read, and vice versa. So many books, so little time!