Juri Nummelin (jurnum@utu.fi)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:28:05 +0300 (EET DST)
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, William Denton wrote:
> For those who haven't read it, it's the story of a
bored, lonely
> accountant who becomes mildly obsessesed with a
woman he sees in a
> restaurant. She eats the same meal, night after
night, and she's very
> depressed and utterly lonely. Within a couple of
weeks she's killed
> herself, and the accountant sets off the find out
why she ended up as she
> did. He tracks her back to a small, dusty town and
his investigation
> there upsets a lot of people and sets a lot of
things in motion.
Sounds rather like Bill Ballinger's "Portrait in Smoke"
(1950), in which the protagonist (he isn't a PI, but acts
like one) tries to find out why his female client doesn't pay
her bills. He searches the woman's life and finds out some
terrible things. It's a mediocre book, but worth to
look.
Juri jurnum@utu.fi
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