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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Trouble with Vampires...
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:00:26 -0400
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On 6/24/25 1:13 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 6/20/25 07:50, Tony Nance wrote:
>> On 6/17/25 12:27 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>          "The Trouble with Vampires" by Lynsay Sands
>>>
>>>      This was a re-read for me because I had forgotten that I had 
>>> read this
>>> title earlier.
>>>      The plot is that there is trouble next door at the Purdy house.
>>> Mad Dr.Dressler who without enough evidence turned himself vampire  
>>> is Purdy's
>>> cousin. He threw out Purdy's cat which taken up by the young hero, 
>>> Parker.
>>> His father left a message that he had to leave town and has not been 
>>> heard from
>>> since, his mother has to go to a convention and Aunt Petronella Stone 
>>> is taking
>>> care of him making sure he does not miss meal or miss school which is 
>>> unlikely
>>> since Parker being smart loves school.
>>>        The Notte (an Argeneau family) takes over the house next door 
>>> to Parker's
>>> and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the headquarters of 
>>> the Enforcer organization because the supervisor of the enforcers 
>>> caught Parker's call to the
>>> police about the strange behavior of Dressler whom Parker believes is 
>>> suffering
>>> from Renfield Syndrome.
>>>
>>>       Petronella Stone is the Life Mate of Santo Notte who just 
>>> happens be
>>> along.  Santo has been a victim of Dressler in the past as Dressler 
>>> experimented
>>> with immortals.  So we have typical Life Mate sex and as the plot 
>>> unfolds
>>> there are some surprises.
>>>
>>>      One of the characters will become the protagonist of "Mile High 
>>> With A Vampire"
>>>   as she saves the mortal pilot of the crashed plane from the out of 
>>> control Immortals guards traveling to North America MHWV is the only 
>>> Argeneau book I have paid
>>>   for which was during the time the San Francisco Public Library was 
>>> closed.
>>>
>>>      You can get more substancial reviews of the two book at these URL:
>>> <https://www.lynsaysands.net/books/the-trouble-with-vampires>
>>> <https://www.lynsaysands.net/books/mile-high-with-a-vampire>
>>>
>>>      I enjoyed these two novels a very great deal. Besides Dressler a
>>> new bunch of bad guys the Brass Circle is introduced briefly. If 
>>> Lysay Sands
>>> lasts long enough she may double her present output, 33 or morer book
>>> length novels.
>>>
>>>      bliss
>>
>> Finally got back to this - thanks for writing about it.
>>
>> I didn't realize she had written so many. Isfdb says this is #27 in 
>> the series. Two quick questions:
>> Have you read some/most of the earlier ones?
>> I usually read in publication order - is that a good idea for this 
>> series?
> 
>      I have read many of the books in this series but they move in and 
> out of the
> library rapidly. And yes I think the order of publications is good but 
> you might need
> notes to keep track of all but the very highest ranked North American 
> and Italian
> Immortals.  There are plots that continue from book to book aside from the
> matchmaker Marguerite and Mortimer who runs things.  Some of the European
> Immortals are unhappy with the American way of Immotality drinking blood 
> from
> bags and all.
> 

Sounds good - thanks for the added info.
- Tony