----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com>
> The flashbacks in Dan J. Marlowe's THE NAME OF THE
GAME IS
> DEATH (or was is the second Earl Drake book?) were a
real drag. I wished
> he'd handled the criminal anti-hero's background the
way Donald Westlake
> did with Parker, who has none. Old heists may be
mentioned, but nothing
> about how his pappy put down his favourite
dog.
Or the consequences: Parker putting down his pappy. But what
if pappy didn't put down the dog? What if Parker spent long
months training his pappy's favourite dog to kill dear old
pappy? What if he subsequently suffered enormous guilt when
the unsuspecting authorities put down the dog? What if his
mother found out and he had to get rid of her too? It's all a
question of relevance, as several others have already pointed
out.
Al
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