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Here's another vintage paperback I bought at Bouchercon based on the say-so of one of my cabinet of vintage-paperback advisers, this time Rick Ollerman. The book is
Date With Death, by
Leslie Ford, Page One contains a passage one is not likely to read every day, not even in hard-boiled crime writing:
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Lawrence Block |
"Agatha was beautiful, but Agatha was a snob. Agatha laughed, but Agatha had the sense of humor of a rachitic newt."
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Ato Onatade shocked by Jay Stringer |
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Craig Robertson |
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Martyn Waites |
I can't imagine what sort of sense of humor a rachitic newt would have, but I like the passage.
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Nanci Kalanta (Mountain Jane Laurel), Ali Karim |
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Steve Cavanaugh and his fellow night creatures |
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Russel McLean |
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Jeffrey Siger, Barry Lancet |
© Peter Rozovsky 2016Labels: Bouchercon 2016, Leslie Ford, paperback originals
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