At Tattle we're still getting over the recent deaths of of Robert B. Parker and Dick Francis. But readers of other types of mystery fiction might be happy to learn that the long-awaited fourth installment of James Redfield's million-selling "Celestine" series is expected in early 2011.
"The Twelfth Insight" will be Redfield's first "Celestine" novel since 1999. The author says it "describes a new wave of religious tolerance and integrity."
In 1992, Redfield self-published "The Celestine Prophecy." It became so popular that Warner Books - now Grand Central - acquired it. Other "Celestine" books include "The Tenth Insight" and "The Secret of Shambhala."
* Speaking of writers, the manuscript given to France's national library yesterday begins simply, yet seductively: "The story of Jacques Casanova . . . written by himself."
"Himself" is the 18th-century lothario, spy, writer and adventurer whose name has become an international synonym for lover. And the original, $9.5 million manuscript contains Casanova's memoirs, a work that shocked publishers two centuries ago, was spirited away from the Nazis on a bicycle during World War II, and is soon to go on public view for the first time on Paris' Left Bank.
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, born in Venice in 1725, wrote the 3,700 pages of memoirs between 1789 and 1798, the year of his death. He bequeathed them to his nephew.
3,700 pages? Casanova needed fewer lovers and more editors.
Palin watching
* Tina Fey may be going rogue.
She said she will probably reprise her impression of Sarah Palin when she hosts "Saturday Night Live" in April.
"It's inevitable that we'll try it, at least," Fey told the Associated Press Tuesday. "We'll see if it makes it to air."
