Re: RARA-AVIS: Passports, please...

From: Chris Routledge ( srcrout@ntlworld.com)
Date: 31 Aug 2001


I recall reading "mean streets" in Dorothy L. Sayers's "Have His Carcase"
(1932). She also uses "hard-boiled" in that novel. So much for cosies. Chesterton sounds plausible, too: Flambeau has hard-boiled tendencies.

Chris

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