Bill D,
Here's another excerpt for your collection of PIs getting
knocked out. From Leo Malet's Mayhem in the Marais (actually,
from the British translation):
". . . But some kind of knucklebuster slammed into my
chin.
"The darkness grew much denser and was filled with
multicoloured haloes continually merging and separating as in
a kaleidoscope. I collapsed to the sound of a heavy object
hitting the floor. My head, perhaps. My last thoughts were
about Ditvrai [the guy whose door he was standing outside]:
curiouser and curiouser!"
And Nestor Burma shows the effects of being clonked on the
head with a metal ashtray, at least for a while. He is dizzy
for a while and takes to bed for most of a day. After that,
he seems to be fine.
Mark
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