Kent wrote:
"What about extreme furniture racing? It's popular in that
hard-boiled community of Whitefish, Montana. People race down
a mountain on sofas, hot tubs, toilets, beds and even
coffins. No report if the competitors in the coffins are dead
or alive."
This reminds me of a book that blew me away many years ago,
Black Gravity by Conall Ryan. I don't recall much about the
plot, but I vaguely remember it having at least slight Red
Harvest/Yojimbo overtones. I do remember the very dark mood
-- the PI drove, and I think lived it while visiting this
isolated town, an old Checker cab; and there was something
about an underground stream that kept making long-buried
coffins pop up all over town. It was the first hardboiled/PI
book I read with serious surreal overtones to it. It was
about 20 years ago; I ran across it recently, think I might
read it again to see if it's as good as I remember. No one
seems to know about this book, so it can be found pretty
easily and cheaply in used book stores.
Mark
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