----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Spurlock" <
duane@emazing.com>
> "Al Guthrie" <
allanguthrie@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> <<
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> > : It begins with a classic Gold Medal
situation: a guy wakes up in a
> > : motel, and there's a dead blonde in the next
room.
> >
> > There's a fine Ph.D. thesis waiting to be
written on books where men
wake
> > up beside unknown dead women. If it has been
written, let me know, I
want
> > to read it.
>
> I believe Lawrence Block's
who's-been-murdered-in-my-bed entry was "After
> the First Death", which iBooks have just reprinted
for those of us yet to
> read it. Gil Brewer provides a variation on the
unknown dead woman theme
> when the protagonist of "Play It Hard" wakes up in
bed with an unknown
live
> woman, who claims to be his wife.
> >>
>
> Doesn't something similar happen in EIGHT MILLION
WAYS TO DIE?
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
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Similar, but minus the proximity factor. Scudder was in the
call girl's bed the previous evening. But he reads about her
death in the newspaper, at his own hotel, the following
afternoon.
Al
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