brightknightie | FK Recommendation September 2010

What's Good? I'm very happy to get to make September's recommendation-of-the-month Nancy K.'s "Deadly Stakes" (2000, PG-13), which uniquely stars Nick and Bourbon. This character study wrapped in action and suspense is set at a luxury casino resort between the second World War and the McCarthy hearings, and pits Nick against Bourbon for first one life and then another.

The budding archaeologists he taught in Chicago were under the impression he was doing research on the cave paintings at Lascaux in the Dordogne during the summer break. In reality, he was seeing to some of the properties he had owned since the mid-1700s...
You can take the boy out of the aristocracy, but you can't take the aristocracy out of the boy, he thought ruefully...

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What's New on FKFic-L? On the admin side, the upcoming FKFic-L War game has been scheduled for 10/01 through 10/15, and List Manager

lisamcdavid has a new email address. On the story side, fkfic-l saw two tales posted in August:

"Simcoe Day" by greerwatson (1 post, 14KB, premiere)
"A Contradiction in Terms" by gaslightgallows (2 posts, 23KB, from fkficfest)