<<Perhaps you can draw consolation from this: you can
be a legend in my mind if I can be a legend in
yours.>>
Ooh, an interesting variation of the old postcoital
quip,
"I'll tell you who I was thinking of if you'll tell me who
you were thinking of". If on a movie, this would be cut out
on US television to "I'll tell you." The previous scene would
have been cut out, too, so a fresh start would be made,
somebody would be dressing very quickly, grabbing a coat and
going to work.
Getting back to hardboiled literature, I am working my way
through Simenon's _Maigret and the Man on the Bench_
(1953). So far, it's been a fine read, with a grim literary
atmosphere and a beastly, just beastly, atmospheric
atmosphere. I claim a first, etc.
The Detective Book Club triple decker also has _Catch the
Saint_ by Charteris and _No Place for Murder_ by George
Harmon Coxe, probably the best second-rate writer in the
business, which makes him first-rate minus. These triple
deckers are so cheap, particularly the cardboard covers... I
must have a hundred of them. A lot of authors are totally
forgotten, but they did reprint a lot of good stuff. One out
of three is a score, I figure.
Best, and please excuse the rambling. We are finally having
some decent summer weather and it feels good.
MrT
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