> 1. The protagonist was forever cooking and
eating,
> and the food didn't even
> seem appealing. These days this "hobby" pops up
all
> over the place in
> mysteries, which I blame on Parker.
I won't divulge my source on this, but I have an acquaintance
who knows Parker well and insists that the only thing Parker
knows about food is, and I'm quoting here, "Food good; hunger
bad."
On a semi-related note, back in the day (circa 1987) I read a
medium-boiled PI novel wherein the PI had a second career as
a writer and, during the course of the novel (which was
probably the second in the series) was writing his second
novel. He had a Scandanavian love interest whose name rhymed
with kosha (no, I'm not making this up, don't ask me why I
can remember a pointless detail like that but not the title
or author) and at one point in the novel makes a peanut
butter omelet and says "Spenser, eat your heart out."
The only other thing I remember is that it was, I THINK,
published by Mysterious Press. At least, I read it during a
perious in which I bought pretty much anything that MP put
out.
Guesses, anyone?
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
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