Sorry for my terrible geography.I have friends in Gent and Brussel I visit every once in a while. It seems like I didn't quite make it far enough to the North!
Anyway I'll try the peanut sauce when I get the chance to and I'll let you know. Kebab with fries (and yogurt/garlic sauce) is something we also have a lot around here
yep he's a very formulaic writer...there is a murder, then they call in the crytologist, then there is a pwetty girl, then someone chases them, then he solves puzzle which solves the murder!
his books are not on my re-read shelves! 
yep he's a very formulaic writer...there is a murder, then they call in the crytologist, then there is a pwetty girl, then someone chases them, then he solves puzzle which solves the murder!
there are some books I keep and reread whnever I can, but others are only worth a once over...and then I don't read more by the same author! 
Like Agatha Christie?
yes the abc murders is a classic plot line that gets used over and over again. 
The murder of Roger Ackroyd...never saw that one coming!
Perhaps they should have installed them on the Destiny for extra Grittiness
Another amusing thing. The Spanish word for toilets could be baños or servicios. Back in 16th Century England, bath-houses began to be associated with prostitution, so over time bath houses were referred to as bagnio (pronounced as "ban'yo") which evolved to bordello which later evolved to brothel. I find it amusing that the Spanish word for toilets - baños has similar origins with bagnio (aka brothel), even the pronunciation between baños and bagnio is similar.
So my question is, what were the Spanish doing in their lavatories back then? lol. I don't think I can see "Baños" in the same way anymore, especially when I'm in LA and need to use a restroom.
Well, I certainly won't need a wife that's for sure.
Like homosexuality back then, one would be quite a popular bachelor with numerous social gatherings and girls swooning for my dear ol' affections, but no one knew of my dirty little secret, well except for a lover. A stable boy (18+ of course), or maybe an aristocrat for a regular get together for a sipping of whisky, or combination of both in a parlour room, with servants sent away for the day, or if one should have servants there, to speak in double innuendos.
Last thing I want is to be arrested and imprisoned for buggery, I would have had a reputation to uphold, lol.
Though I could have a wife and have had a male lover at the side too... I suppose.
He did write the Picture of Dorian Gray, definitely a masterpiece in literature.
