In a message dated Thu, 8 Nov 2001 3:58:09 AM Eastern
Standard Time, "M Blumenthal" <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net> writes:
> William Denton asked,
>
> > I remember in the Robert Parkers I've read that
Spenser's always having to
> > go to the Combat Zone, which seems to be a
really tough red light
> > district--drugs, whores, all that. What's the
story on it? Is it there
> > now?
From an British perspective, Boston is considered as a rather
genteel and, I hate to say it, European City. Just an
impression. I did read a Parker in preparation for Boston
month (can we do London at some point?) and was not hugely
impressed. I don't have it with me, but it is late in the
series and involves Mexican Americans in a city near Boston,
Prestwick? Prestbury? I wonder how the fictional New England
in O'Connel's series - Box nine etc, town of Quinsigamund
(sic) relates to Boston? All the best Colin Old
Englander
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 08 Nov 2001 EST