From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fantasy Mystery
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:38:27 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

   I remember being disappointed in Lord Darcy stories
because the villians and characters weren't very real.
 Mike is right about "Too many magicians", it was a
gimmick that with all the magicians around no magic was
used.  I thought they did magic for some of the short
stories, but only for circumstantial evidence.  It still
seemed like Lord Darcy waived his hands around and voila
the villian popped up.
Wasn't his side kick a forensic sorceror?
     Madeleine

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:36:01 -0500
  Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>>    What do other people like in a fantasy/mystery?  I
>>like
>> good characters and avoiding "miracle" solutions.  The
>> ones where Lord Darcy does a bit of tricky magic and
>>voila
>> the villians are revealed.
>
> Lord Darcy never did any magic.  His only touch of the
> Talent was the ability to leap from an unjustified
>assumption
> to the proper conclusion without passing through any
>points
> between.
>
> Eric
>