Among my tiny collection is a 1942 Spicy Detective, headlined
by "Riddle in Red" by Bellem. He HAD to know he was being
funny ..... didn't he? At any rate, I was prompted to pull it
down and skim its tattered pages.
For your pleasure:
"The back of his conk was caved in, as if somebody has lifted
a divot out of his scalp with a ten-pound niblick. Gooey
ketchup made a read smear all over his noggin and he was
deader than oysters on the half shell.
I let out a strangled gasp; came damn near popping my pork
chops. There was a cellarite on the far side of the room. I
staggered to it, found a fresh fifth of Vat 69 ,and tilted a
generous jorum past my tonsils. That quieted the butterflies
in my elly-bay long enough to let me use the phone, dial
police headquarters."
"Elley-bay." Who says he ain't literary? The guy's
practically by-lingual.
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>From: BobT <
btoomey@javanet.com>
>To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Writing So Bad It's
Good
>Date: Sun, Jun 25, 2000, 5:41 PM
>
>
>
> Kevin Burton Smith wrote:
>
>> Of course, the big question still remains: did
Prather and Bellem
>> know how funny they could be? Somehow, I think
they did.
>>
> Prather for sure. I'm not so certain about Bellem.
Neither was S.J.
> Perleman, Bellem's biggest fan among the literati.
Not that it
> matters.
>
> BobT
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