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MAYBE IT WASN’T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT….

OPENING LINES CAN urge compelling reading. Here are some tidbits of such openers that sure worked for me. Perhaps you’d like to share your favorites. The Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler. … Continue reading

October 8, 2021 · Leave a comment

AS HARD-BOILED AS A SHAMUS’S SIMILE PART 1

RAYMOND CHANDLER said hard-boiled literature of the 1920s and 1930s “made most of the fiction of the time taste like a cup of luke-warm consommé at a spinsterish tea room.” … Continue reading

September 27, 2018 · 2 Comments