In a message dated 8/25/01 7:31:39 AM,
gcupper3@yahoo.com writes:
<< One last note: the two Mack Slade books by John
Blumenthal have been mentioned here in the not-too-distant
past. I think someone (Mark?) found them in a box somewhere
and wanted to know whether to keep them. I described them as
something like a cross between the movie Airplane and Mike
Hammer (which makes me think that Mr. Lau might like them
>>
Actually, yeah. I've got at least one of them: THE TINSELTOWN
MURDERS. It's got dialogue like, "This is a rod, see? One
move and it's curtains! This is a curtain rod!" And features
descriptions like, "she looked like a photo finish in a
zeppelin race." Good or bad, there are few books around from
which I can quote verbatim like that.
John Lau
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