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Leonard, Elmore
Be Cool
Chile Palmer gets involved in the record business.
QUOTE:
...Edie peeling off the robe as she went into the bathroom and stepped out of her panties, the widow in her bereavement forgetting to shut the door. (page 73-74) BONUS QUOTE:
Chili said, "What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?" And Elaine said, "Bogart in the The Maltese Falcon . That's the best line in the picture. Everything else is expository." (page 129)Read:
12/2000
Djibouti
Takes place mostly in Africa, mostly Djibouti, a place with which I was not familiar. The story moved along pretty slowly, I thought, but the ending is, well, an ending. Chapter five, paragraph, three, I think, it says "Yahama". Did no one notice, or no one cared, or the author did it on purpose?
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11/2018
Pagan Babies
Faux priest returns from Africa to run a scam to get funds. Very unpleasant descriptions of violence in Africa.
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7/2001
Raylan
Raylan Given, #3. U.S. Marshall Raylin, with his cowboy hat, looks for the killer of an old man, three women robbing banks, and an escaped gambler, who might have been one of those aforementioned three women robbing banks, but wasn't.
Quote:
"You don't think of your manners and let the woman go first," Art Mullen said, "not when she is pointing a gun at you."Read:
3/2024
Riding The Rap
Raylan Givens, #2. More sordid going-ons in Florida.
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7/1998
Road Dogs
Foley meets Cundo in prison, ends up in Venice (California) where Dawn is plotting to get Cundo's money.
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7/2009
Tishomingo Blues
High diver Dennis goes to Mississippi and meets Civil War reenactors, drug dealers, a Young Dog named Robert Taylor, and cute A lil' ol' hooker named Traci.
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9/2002
Up In Honey's Room
Marshal Carl Webster is looking for couple of escaped German POWs in Detroit. Several interesting quotes regarding Honey taking off her underwear could be listed, but I refrain.
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6/2008
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