I'm not creative enough at the moment to stretch Lisa
Scottoline's KILLER SMILE far enough for it to be hardboiled,
but it deals with a WWII Italian internment camp in Montana.
Even less hb is my childhood church camp, which had
previously been a WWII Japanese POW camp.
And speaking of Elmore Leonard, a
month or so ago, a few days after I ordered TISHIMONGO KID, I
heard that GW was reading an Elmore Leonard book. That was
the first I ever heard that he ever read fiction, and I was
wondering if he was taking a page out of Bill's book. Then
yesterday I started reading TK (however it's spelled; it's
upstairs), and good grief! Its setting is riverboat gambling
casinos in Mississippi, kind of prescient, if that's the
Leonard GW was reading. Anybody know?
Joy
Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
> Is this cool or what?
> Elmore Leonard is penning a new crime serial for the
New York Times
> Saturday Magazine, starting yesterday. Even better,
it features Carl
> Webster, the straight-shooting U.S. Marshal last
seen in Dutch's
> latest, THE HOT KID, in a whole new adventure,
dealing with Nazi
> prisoners of war in Oklahoma. So far, it's already
reading better than
> THE HOT KID, mostly because the background is so
interesting (and
> assuming that Leonard's research is correct, which
it usually is,
> AFAIK).
>
> I mean, there were 500 POW camps in the States
during WWII? The mind
> boggles!
>
> You can read it on-line, or even download a podcast
-- for free.
>
> All you have to do is register with them.
>
> And hard-boiled? If Carl was any dryer or more
terse, he'd snap and
> burst into flames.
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