I had a question about the opening sentence few days back and
was wondering if it was something by Raoul Whitfield or
Frederick Nebel. I was also thinking that the quote was in
Ron Goulart's pulp anthology "The Hardboiled Dicks".
No one came up with a definite answer. I was lucky enough to
find the book in my shelves and found the quote - but no
attribution to any author. It's in the introduction. Goulart
writes:
"For one thing there was the infinite number of ways they had
of grabbing your attention and pulling you into action. Which
this assortment of opening books will show:
[Then come openings of "The Dain Curse", "The Red Wind" and
several others I don't recognize {and I'm a bit uncertain
about Dain}. Then comes this:]
I dropped to one knee and fired twice."
Goulart never says where these openings come from. He says
they are from "books", but there are clearly more short
stories in it
(including one Sam Spade story, with the line "My name is
Ronald Ames") than actual books.
Now, does anyone recognize the sentence and can tell where
it's from?
Juri
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