David Johnston wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:34:20 -0500, "Maggie"
> wrote:
>
>> wrote in message
>> news:9d79b8ef-903b-4ac8-bd55-d8dd58dfe741@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>> This is a follow-up to a previous post about the anti-Semite and
>>> famous author Patricia Cornwell, who is going on trial in Great
>>> Britain, for her threats to murder a Jewish journalist in Belgium.
>> Exactly what has this woman written, examples please? I have never heard of
>> her. I hope you are not confusing her with Patricia Cornwall the American
>> author of crime/forensic novels.
>
> That's who he's talking about. Mr. Sachs is the author of "The
> Virginia Ghost Murders" about a detective who investigates a civil war
> era murder. Since in "The Last Precinct" Kay Scarpetta works on the
> remains of someone murdered 400 years ago, Mr Sachs decided that his
> plotline had been "ripped off", created a webpage to that effect and
> started putting stickers on his books which read "The MUST-READ gothic
> mystery that preceded PATRICIA CORNWELL'S newest best-seller!".
> Cornwell petitioned the court for a preliminary injunction to stop
> him, which was granted since the court found his allegations to be
> defamatory so he left for Belgium to evade the court's jurisdiction.
> So far as I know, there is no trial in Great Britain and never was.
> Basically Mr. Sach simply appears to be a cosmically poor loser.
Oh, and, by the way, on Patricia Cornwell's website, back in April, she
was supporting Mrs. Clinton.
And "Herschel Greenbaum" is almost certainly a sock puppet.
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about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W.
W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_."
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