Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Death by Book

K. Harper (kharper@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:33:39 -0400 Kevin Smith said:

>C'mon, guys! Aren't we supposed to be hardboiled he-man types? None of
>this death by strychnine soaked books and poison ink stuff. In keeping
>with the gist of this list, (you know, "murder by people who do it for a
>reason") shouldn't we be talking about beating someone's brains out
>with, oh, I dunno, a telephone book?

See Jonathan Valin, _Final Notice_ (much of which, BTW, has to do with
library security and a serial killer's mutilating art books). The
telephone-book beating isn't a murder method here, but a variation on the
third degree.

Kathy

Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
kharper@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/

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