RARA-AVIS: Re: Defective Bibliography, Westerns and Christmas Quotes

Kevin Smith (kvnsmith@total.net)
Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:40:41 -0400 >Absolutely right, Kevin. That'll teach me to look at the book itself.
>However, the edition I have is the trade paperback. I wonder if the Keene
>story is actually in the hardback.

Beats me, James. Is there an actual hardcover? I have the paperbacks, too.
I always assumed most of these university presses would be happy just to
get a book out, never mind in various editions. Mind you, the Defective
Detective books are a lot more fun than most books.

>...I hope that this hybridous stowaway message passes Bill's test of
>hardboiled appositeness; but aren't many westerns hardboiled?

Some of 'em, for sure, particularly the ones that stray from the usual
shoot 'em up plots. Hombre, with Paul Newman, based on Elmore Leonard's
book, comes to mind, and last night I caught the tail end of The Ox Bow
Incident, with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. Powerful stuff, indeed. It
could have been adapted from today's headlines.

But here's the question for today:

I seem to remember someone in a crime flick saying something like "Next
time someone says Merry Christmas to me, I think I'll shoot them." Does
anyone know what the exact quote is, and where it came from? It seems to me
it might be Nick Charles in The Thin Man or one of its sequels but I can't
remember, I can't recall...

Merry Christmas, birds.

Kevin Smith
Web & Graphic Design
mailto:kvnsmith@total.net

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