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    From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 16 21:27:51 2025
    "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

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Tony Nance on Tue Jun 24 10:13:36 2025
    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.


    Thanks,
    Tony


    bliss-

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