>hope this helps, miker
Thanks, miker; didn't know if it was equivalent of dry-stone
walling here
(walls in the hills built only with unshaped rocks, no
mortar)
> but my guess is that its a reference
>to convict labor on said road.
Seems likely;
>doing the one-bit
one term as a prisoner there, something like that?
Anybody?
>the "Keys"
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt; and saw the movie
many times.
>eric
>ambler and michael dibdin
Ambler is between-the-wars thrillers - a very good writer at
his best; Dibdin writes the Aurelio Zen series, Italian
police procedurals, fairly dark, probably worth your trying
once, anyway.
MM
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