On 19 August 2002, William Denton wrote:
: I'm reading Bruno Fischer's THE LADY KILLS (1951). The
opening: a man
: knocks on a door and it's answered by a gorgeous young
woman in a skimpy
: bikini. I'm sure I read a Shell Scott book with an opening
like this ...
: though maybe there she was actually wearing a towel, or
maybe she was
: naked. Shell was always lucky.
The opening to THE WAILING FRAIL (Fawcett Gold Medal #712,
1956), the tenth Shell Scott novel:
| She yanked the door open with a crash and said, "Gran--"
but then
| she stopped and stared at me. She was nude as a
noodle.
|
} I stared right back at her.
|
| "Oh!" she squealed. "You're not Grandma!"
|
| "No," I said, "I'm Shell Scott, and you're not Grandma
either."
|
| She slammed the door in my face.
|
| Yep, I thought, this is the right house.
|
| My brain was reeling. Now that I had time to consider it,
that
| had been a gorgeous babe. Even dressed in a Father Hubbard
she
| would have been gorgeous. But wearing only a doorway, she
had looked
| like the next step in the evolution of women.
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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