George,
Re your comments below:
> One or two of the Trace novels by Warren
Murphy,
> mentioned on this list a few times in recent
memory,
> speak of a restaurant in NYC with pictures
of
> writers
> on the walls. The comments of the characters are
so
> graphic--"I can't eat with that ugly face staring
at
> me," etc.--that I have to believe that Murphy
is
> talking about an actual picture, if not an
actual
> restaurant. Does anyone know what I'm
talking
> about,
> since I clearly don't?
I believe the restaurant, which DID exist but no longer does,
was called Bogie's. It was sort of a gathering place for
NYC's mystery community. The proprietors closed the place
some years ago and are
(or at least were) running a travel agency that specialized
in setting up mystery-oriented tours and trips.
> Murphy also spoofs Parker by having Trace learn
to
> be
> a PI by reading novels. Parker is never named
that
> I
> can recall, but Trace quotes Shakespeare and
tries
> to
> cook gourmet meals (and fails miserably), so
who
> does
> that sound like to you?
There's also a scene in one of the books in which a Boston PI
wanders in Bogie's, orders an obscure beer that nobody's ever
heard of before, gets drunk after one sip, and proceeds to
try to engage the bartender in a discussion about the meaning
of courage. This also seemed to be a pointed barb at RBP's
Spenser character.
JIM DOHERTY
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