JKR is an EQ fan!
I used to love the old Ellery Queen tv series, but I'd never read any Ellery Queen books until recently. (FYI: Ellery Queen was both the writers' pen name and the main character of a series of mystery novels written in the 40's through 70's.) I just read EQ's Calamity Town and discovered that the fictional town of Wrightsville contains characters named Pettigrew, Hermione, and Snuffles! Pettigrew and Hermione could be just coincidence, but once I read that one of the characters bore the nickname of Snuffles, well, I can only conclude that JKR read Calamity Town at some point.
Why did I read it? lorie945 just wrote a wonderful fic,Wrightsville: Long Ago and Far Away, crossing Ellery Queen and The Charioteer by Mary Renault. It's a brilliant post-novel, post-war look at the main characters of The Charioteer, with a mystery twist thrown in. Lorie used as her setting the fictional town of Wrightsville, so I wanted to read the EQ novel in which the town makes its first appearance.
A snippet from Wrightsville: Long Ago and Far Away:
Ralph came around to help Laurie out of his seat, and in the darkness he softly said, "I believe we're now part of a great American tradition involving automobiles." Laurie lightly punched his shoulder and Ralph smiled. Then he stretched and said, "Good thing we did it now, I'm getting too old for much more of that."
"You keep speaking about your greatly-advanced age while behaving as if you're nineteen again," Laurie scolded laughingly.
"Ah, just an old married man now, you know."
I LOVE Ralph and Laurie!
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Why did I read it? lorie945 just wrote a wonderful fic,Wrightsville: Long Ago and Far Away, crossing Ellery Queen and The Charioteer by Mary Renault. It's a brilliant post-novel, post-war look at the main characters of The Charioteer, with a mystery twist thrown in. Lorie used as her setting the fictional town of Wrightsville, so I wanted to read the EQ novel in which the town makes its first appearance.
A snippet from Wrightsville: Long Ago and Far Away:
Ralph came around to help Laurie out of his seat, and in the darkness he softly said, "I believe we're now part of a great American tradition involving automobiles." Laurie lightly punched his shoulder and Ralph smiled. Then he stretched and said, "Good thing we did it now, I'm getting too old for much more of that."
"You keep speaking about your greatly-advanced age while behaving as if you're nineteen again," Laurie scolded laughingly.
"Ah, just an old married man now, you know."
I LOVE Ralph and Laurie!
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