> Diane Trap wrote:
>
> > In one of the novels a bartender advises
Phillip Marlowe
> > on the proper gin gimlet: equal parts gin and
Rose's Lime Juice
> > (this is tasty but will peel the enamel off
your teeth)....
I've picked up major tips for life re drinks from HB books.
In fact I can't think of one person from any of my favorite
books that drink anything naff. From learning about the right
type of tequila (Crumley) Gimlets(see above; but they do set
my asthma off.) Whisky, in all it's glory in too many books
to list. And of course coffee, which is to HB as Earl Grey is
to cosies.(Large hot sweet mugs of tea of course being a
different matter, I can see Mark Timlin's Sharman being a tea
man) I can't comment on the bag over the head thing, or
shooting people through the foot, but I remember the first
time I read about someone using plastic bag ties for
handcuffs, can't recall the name of the book,(made as film
set in French colony, bent local copper,starred Phillipe
Noiret ) and everytime the kids are being vile, I wonder
where I can get a gross ; ) Good thread Jane
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