Beats me, James. Is there an actual hardcover? I have the
paperbacks, too.
I always assumed most of these university presses would be
happy just to
get a book out, never mind in various editions. Mind you, the
Defective
Detective books are a lot more fun than most books.
>...I hope that this hybridous stowaway message passes
Bill's test of
>hardboiled appositeness; but aren't many westerns
hardboiled?
Some of 'em, for sure, particularly the ones that stray from
the usual
shoot 'em up plots. Hombre, with Paul Newman, based on Elmore
Leonard's
book, comes to mind, and last night I caught the tail end of
The Ox Bow
Incident, with Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn. Powerful stuff,
indeed. It
could have been adapted from today's headlines.
But here's the question for today:
I seem to remember someone in a crime flick saying something
like "Next
time someone says Merry Christmas to me, I think I'll shoot
them." Does
anyone know what the exact quote is, and where it came from?
It seems to me
it might be Nick Charles in The Thin Man or one of its
sequels but I can't
remember, I can't recall...
Merry Christmas, birds.
Kevin Smith
Web & Graphic Design
mailto:kvnsmith@total.net
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