""You know the situation as well as I do, Lew." Colton sounded angry and apologetic at the same time. She wdn't bleed coffee, she'd bleed coffee pots. "I do believe if I cut myself I'd bleed coffee." - p 34 Twenty-five cups a day, silly old woman." But she sounded very tolerant of herself. I developed the habit when I ran the snack bar.
Maybe she'd been messing around w/ a foot-path. So she told me what she meant, about her sins." I didn't take her seriously at first-how could I? I tried to kid her out of it, laugh it off. Christ had appeared in her sleep and forgiven her all her sins. ""On Christmas Eve she woke me up in the middle of the night and announced that she was purified.
If you were married to a cycle-path wd you go missing? ""The guy's a cycle-path what they call them,"" - p 6 The only explanation is the one the guard provides: In the neck of the urban woods where I stretched my 2 or 3 yr old toes a guy w/ pink hair wd've been eviscerated & fed to poodles. Pink hair in 1956?! The character's a sports writer. He was a big young man in a blue suit, hatless, with flying pink hair." - p 4 "A man came out of the oleanders and ran past my car. Given that this is copyrighted 1956 I was taken aback by the following: Every time I go to my favorite used bookstore I look for more by him. I've read & reviewed 2 bks by him so far ( The Chill: The Far Side of the Dollar: ) & I liked this one as much as the others. I read thru all of Dashiell Hammett & all of Raymond Chandler pretty quickly & was duly disappointed that there wasn't more. ( )īy tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - December 28, 2018 But if you read mysteries for the mystery, you'll probably think this is one of the better Macdonalds. This novel has plenty of that, too just as I like reading about a Los Angeles with orange groves on its outskirts, I love reading about a Malibu that still has room for a trailer court. I don't remember the plots of most books after I finish them what I remember is the atmosphere they conjured when I was immersed in them. I'm in it for the prose, for the setting, and for the characters, pretty much in that order. Unlike many readers of mystery-thrillers, I'm not a person who enjoys difficult puzzles, so working out the solution to a mystery isn't part of my reading process. Fortunately, I had the good sense to read it again (it's not that long), which took only a couple of sessions, and see the ingeniousness with which it's put together, and the way the pieces are all laid out for the reader at the beginning. I lost the thread and missed the clues, and was left with a hazy and irritated recollection of a bunch of flawed people in an ugly situation. My opinion of The Barbarous Coast suffered from how I read it: a few pages at a time, right before sleep, over a period of ten or more days.
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