Thanks, gentlemen, for the comments. I think that pretty much
my sense of the ending to, but you both said it better than I
could've. And sorry about getting the title wrong. Why did I
think it was "November"? Thanks for the other Pronzini tip.
JR
> >
> > > This is a great story. But I'm a little
curious about the
somewhat
> > > ambiguous ending. I'm not especially dense
but I'm not sure if I
> > > understood the ending. Anyone care to
enlighten me. The story is
> > > anthologized in Black Lizard Anthology
1987--a great collection.
> >
> > Hi JR,
> > I just found this anthology yesterday a local
used book store,
and
> i
> > agree, the ending of the Pronzini story is
ambiguous. The only
> thing
> > I got out of it was that it was a twist ending.
He leads you to
> > believe the the situation and characters are
one thing, then
tells
> > you that they're something else. It isn't one
of Pronzini's best,
> > IMO.
>
> And, oddly enough, I just picked up a copy of the
first BLACK
LIZARD
> (definitely seek out the SECOND BL ANTHO!) at a
library sale
> yesterday to give to someone, something like the
fourth or so to
pass
> through my hands, and happened to reread the
lead-off story...not
to
> ***SPOIL***
> anything, but Chuck's correct...Pronzini has
strongly implied that
> the accountant being pursued by the protag and his
senior partner
is
> about to be executed by thugs, when instead he's
about to be
arrested
> by feds...the senior partner being a rather
sadistic, and homesick,
> brother of their quarry. Interestingly to me,
Pronzini's other
1978
> EQMM story with "fog" in the title [no doubt also in
the San
> Francisco and obfuscation senses], "Strangers in the
Fog," strikes
me
> as not only one of his best but also still one of
the best suspense
> stories I've read... and I like this one better than
Chuck does, if
> not as much as "Strangers..." (which, given my
sieve-like memory,
> probably was actually published in EQMM in '76 or
somesuch).
>
> TM
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