I'm currently engrossed in *Carter Beats the Devil* and can't
actively participate in the Gold Medal discussion, but I must
mention one of my favorite opening lines which comes courtesy
of a Gold Medal novel. Day Keene's *To Kiss, To Kill* (1951)
opens with the grabber, "You can never tell what a big, tough
Polish boy will do when he finds a nude blond in his
bathroom."
Now I ask you, who can stop reading after a masterpiece like
that?
---------- Jim Stephenson Rare Books Cataloger Getty Research
Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA
90049-1688
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