Whoever decides to write that thesis should not overlook one
of the best waking-up-in-bed-with-dead-woman novels I can
recall: W. H. Manville's
"Goodbye." A Seventies novel set in Greenwich Village, filled
with betrayal and deception, it's theme seems to be that the
peace and love Sixties are definitely over.
Dick Lochte
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:48:21 +0100 From: "Al Guthrie"
<
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS:
Another GM book
- ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> : It begins with a classic Gold Medal situation: a
guy wakes up in a
> : motel, and there's a dead blonde in the next
room.
>
> There's a fine Ph.D. thesis waiting to be written on
books where men
wake
> up beside unknown dead women. If it has been
written, let me know, I
want
> to read it.
I believe Lawrence Block's who's-been-murdered-in-my-bed
entry was
"After the First Death", which iBooks have just reprinted for
those of us yet to read it. Gil Brewer provides a variation
on the unknown dead woman theme when the protagonist of "Play
It Hard" wakes up in bed with an unknown live woman, who
claims to be his wife.
Al
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