Crumley's line, my favorite hb opening line, is so good it
deserves to be quoted:
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was
drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball
Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma,
California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring
afternoon." (Crumley, LAST GOOD KISS).
And, just for the heck of it, my favorite closing line in a
hb piece, from Ross Macdonald's "Midnight Blue":
"All us poor creatures, as the old man of the mountain had
said that morning."
doug
--- Mark Sullivan <
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net> wrote:
> BobT asked:
>
> "Anybody out there have favorite opening lines
in
> hardboiled fiction?"
>
> I agree with you about Red Wind and
Chinaman's
> Chance. Another of my
> favorites is the opening line of Crumley's Last
Good
> Kiss. How can you
> go wrong with an alcoholic bulldog?
===== Doug Bassett
dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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