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I've not read any of her other books. Somehow I doubt that many guys would: I hesitate to use the term romance novel because the writing is infinitely better, but they are all mysteries, in which the female main character winds up with a new love in her life. Oops, I take it back--just remembered she's written one book for children--A Walk in Wolf Wood, or something like that. I've not read that one. But she can make you see places, that's for sure. I'd bet she's been to Greece, and that she really loves the place: three of her mysteries take place there, and in each the character raves about the country, particularly the light.
Interesting, how times change. Her earlier works were post-WWII, and the characters smoke, and the female willingly subjects herself to the wishes of the male.
I enjoyed the Merlin series as well--definitely a different point of view.
Oh, yes; I was wondering earlier: I used the term 'main character'; is the word 'protagonist' appropriate only when you're talking about a play?
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Protagonist works for any literary work.
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Thank you, Miss Congeniality.  (My apologies if you meant it seriously.)
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Somehow I doubt that many guys would: I hesitate to use the term romance novel
I have always been fascinated by the attraction that lettered women friends of mine have for bad literature: e.g., King, Kuntz, or Harlequin Romances. I read one of the latter as an experiment once a couple of decades ago, and that was sufficient. Actually, nothing that a few explosions (in the printing plant) couldn't fix. [NB: cum grano humungissimo salis]
I used the term 'main character'; is the word 'protagonist' appropriate only when you're talking about a play?
Originally it was used in reference to drama, but now can be applied to other literary works. No doubt purists shall object.
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Read five or six of her novels (besides the Arthurian ones) in college. Had a friend who lent them to me (she was into Mary Stewart, I was into her, what can I say?). Found the blend of romance and darker mystery quite intriguing. Moved on from there to Mary Renault's Alexander series. And then, for some reason, got into William Golding and forgot about the Marys. Maybe I should re-read one, just to see if the old magic lingers. (And just to put all this in context, particularly for Jheem, I was a voracious reader of the worst sort of romances when I was in school - Mills&Boon - and read, when I counted, over 70 of them between the ages of 13 and 14. I am surely destined for death everlasting.)
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Loved Mary Stewart [blowing kiss e] 
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In so many "pulp" genres there are some writers turning out good stories that happen to be romance or westerns or whatever and there are a lot of others all sharing the same three plots. I read 2 1/2 harlequins when I house sat a house full of them, not my style but I did like Mary Stewart and a few others.
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I've read more than my nominal share of M&B romances. Time was when I'd read anything, including manuals. This propensity for reading manuals has since seen me drummed ignominiously out of the Corps of Software and All Things Computerish or Even Vaguely Technical Such As Video Recorders and VCRs Buffalo Lodge No. 172879187
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