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KILLING ZONE by HARRY McCALLION
I dropped to one knee and fired twice at the
black figure outlined against the trees' lighter green. It
fell, and almost immediately I saw a shock of blond ...
http://www.geocities.com/odjobman/killzone.htm
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(Most "I dropped to one knee" cites were marriage
proposals.)
Joy
Juri Nummelin asked:
>I had a question about the opening sentence few days
back and was
> wondering if it was something by Raoul Whitfield or
Frederick Nebel.
> I was also thinking that the quote was in Ron
Goulart's pulp
> anthology "The Hardboiled Dicks".
>
> No one came up with a definite answer. I was lucky
enough to find the
> book in my shelves and found the quote - but no
attribution to any
> author. It's in the introduction. Goulart
writes:
>
> "For one thing there was the infinite number of ways
they had of
> grabbing your attention and pulling you into action.
Which this
> assortment of opening books will show:
>
> [Then come openings of "The Dain Curse", "The Red
Wind" and several
> others I don't recognize {and I'm a bit uncertain
about Dain}. Then
> comes this:]
>
> I dropped to one knee and fired twice."
>
> Goulart never says where these openings come from.
He says they are
> from "books", but there are clearly more short
stories in it
> (including one Sam Spade story, with the line "My
name is Ronald
> Ames") than actual books.
>
> Now, does anyone recognize the sentence and can tell
where it's from?
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