For Gary and all you other completists who just can't live
without it, Doc Smith's p.i. novel is HAVE TRENCHCOAT--WILL
TRAVEL. I just can't pass up this chance to quote the opening
sentence: "My secretary, Jill Grant--twenty0four, fifv-five,
one-twenty, thirty-seven-twenty-four-thirty-six, golden
blond, blue-eyed, peaches-and-cream--is both attractive and
efficient." You gotta love it.
And to add a little fuel to one or another of the first that
burn here now and then, here's a sentence from the intro:
"This is a hard-boiled adventure-mystery, somewhat in the
pattern established by Dashiell Hammett and Carroll John
Daly, big names in their day."
Bill Crider
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