I just got back from a 10 day vacation and took along Framed
by Guilt/My Flesh is Sweet and loved them. Great books
both.
Jeff
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "e_lynskey"
<e_lynskey@...> wrote:
>>
>> I finished reading Day Keene's FRAMED BY GULT
first published in 1949
>> at William Morrow, and available as a reprint
from Stark House. The
>> setting is Hollywood after the Second World War.
Bob Stanton is a
>> movie script writer accused of murdering an
English lady. The twist
>> Keene drops in is Stanton on the fateful night
was out on a rare
>> binger, and can't remember what he did. I liked
the quippy dialogue,
>> wry wit, and noirish setting. Keene's prose is
clean and accessible. I
>> was impressed enough to line up more of Keene's
work, so he easily
>> passes the readers' litmus test.
>
> These Keene books are very hard (I would say
impossible) to dislike.
> Clean writing, things move along nicely, and they
are not too
> repetitive. The dialogue is very good indeed.
Sometimes these books
> remind me of Erle Stanley Gardner in his A.A. Fair
mode.
>
> Best,
>
> Mrt
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