mike pritchard wrote: >> Hi Debra, Your original guess was better. You were half right then. Now you're totally wrong. If you think about your original guess it will become clear which half is right and which is not. Then you can take it from there.<<
Debra then said: OK, one more time (and making use this time of Kakki's thinking cap :-): 1. Back to my first choice of Raymond Chandler 2. "The High Window" 3. Again, your quotes make me think of HOSL 4. I doubt if Joni's read this book, but she may have read something else by Chandler and come across similar images since his main character often observes the details of a scene and then makes some comment about how it doesn't look "lived in". Marlowe looks beneath the surface. He sees the grit. Of places. Of people. He'd squint an appreciative eye at blonde and leggy Joni. Maybe even start to smile. She'd speak. Brainy, too, he'd think. Blue-eyed trouble had come to call. > mike (who picked up Joan Didion's 'Slouching towards Bethlehem' for less > than a dollar this evening) A synopsis and review would be most appreciated. Then I can manage to never actually purchase a Joan Didion book and have more time to continue reading gritty LA detective stories... Debra Shea mike says Correct - The book is "The High Window" (filmed as "The Brasher Doubloon") and was written by Raymond Chandler. And I love the mini parody of Marlowe meets Mitchell...
