Dean, have you ever read any of Bill's Brady Coyne mysteries? Brady is a fly fishing lawyer/detective. I met Bill (virtually) through his wife Vicki Stiefel, a really good mystery writer in her own right, although she has morphed into writing fantasy/other world type stuff which just isn't my cup of tea. We still keep in touch peripherally though. Bill and I exchanged a few emails and he gave me some great writing tips: A great guy and a great teacher. Losing him so early was a shame.

Yes, Vicki and I communicated quite a bit after Bill’s passing when she was sorting out Bill’s posessions and some of the things that had been Tap’s. She worked at the Cobb’s Auction House but she didn’t want to go that route. In the end she consigned all the books with a different auction house and things didn’t work out quite as well as she had hoped. They bundled all the books into about a half-dozen lots and they didn’t bring anywhere near what they would have brought if auctioned individually or in twos or threes. We haven’t communicated in years but I still get her periodic business emails.





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Here are a few pics of Archibald Rutledge with his Parker. The second pic some people think that he is holding a "P" Grade Parker. Both of these are hanging in the club house at Backwoods Quail Club.

We get to go quail hunting with John Frierson who was a friend and hunting companion of Havilah Babcock and has written a book and several articles for Parker Pages. That happens this Friday

Tell Dr. John "Hi" for me please!





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I sure will

I'm not into mysteries and the only of his other books I've owned is "Bitch Creek" and I didn't like it.




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I met Mr. Frierson at a Southern S X S Fall Classic a few years ago and bought a copy of his book, and had him sign it. Nice fellow. Either in the book or in our conversation he referred to a S X S as a "two-row gun". That might not be as interesting a term to others as it was to me, being a row crop farmer. I had never heard that phrase before. I liked it.

In William Hazelton's "Fred Kimble: Master Duck Shot of the World," Kimble wrights about hunting geese and sandhill cranes in North Dakota with his Parker double gun.

Yeah, I get it; me neither, though I did read a few of Bill's and Vicki's because we had become sort of internet friends. Never read nor even heard of Bitch Creek. But I have all his outdoor books and have enjoyed them.