Re Phil's question below:
"I'm not able to pick up the latest at the bookshops, but was
wondering
if there's much interest in poisonings these days, or if
poison has any
place in hard boiled lit. Offhand, I suspect that it is too
slow and
casual for most hard boiled action, but there was one poor
sod poisoned
in a James Ellroy novel I read recently... _Black Dahlia_
perhaps?
Poisoning must be more suited to classic novels of
detection."
One of Hammett's Continental Op stories, "Fly Paper," deals
with murder
by poison. In it the Op and his boss, the Old Man, discuss
various
poison cases they've dealt with during their careers. - Jim
Doherty
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