Re: RARA-AVIS: Day Keene

James Stephenson (James_E_Stephenson@umail.umd.edu)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 08:57:53 -0500

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I haven't read much by Keene, but he is the author of one of my favorite
first lines of all time: "You can never tell what a big, tough Polish
boy will do when he finds
a nude blond in his bathroom." (From his 1951 Gold Medal novel _To kiss,
or kill_)

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James Stephenson
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