Thanks, Charles, for the story of "A Sound of Distant Drums."
Here's another, more personal in-joke related to Lawrence
Block. Back in the late 1970s, in his column for WRITERS
DIGEST, block mentioned that in one of his Evan Tanner books
there was a mention of a tobacco shop in Thailand. But in the
phrase was garbled somehow, and in the book the reference was
to a
"tobbo shop." Block thought it would be amusing if someone
took it seriously, and he wondered if, in later years, there
might be references in other books to "the notorious tobbo
shops of Thailand." Naturally I couldn't resist. I used the
latter phrase in at least three books, maybe four. None under
my own name, though.
Bill Crider
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