tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post6752109932628263350..comments2024-02-14T03:20:23.057-08:00Comments on Pop Sensation: Paperback 644: The Talking Clock / Frank Gruber (Penguin 545)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-49579766630729799132013-05-26T08:46:36.628-07:002013-05-26T08:46:36.628-07:00How about a cover to one of Morris Renek's boo...How about a cover to one of Morris Renek's books in memory of his passing:<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/books/morris-renek-novelist-of-hard-boiled-stories-dies-at-88.html?hpw&_r=0Keirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780519140837852601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-35276475932289888692013-05-26T02:54:38.929-07:002013-05-26T02:54:38.929-07:00Rex, the front-cover snark was nifty, but you just...Rex, the front-cover snark was nifty, but you just phoned in the back cover. How could you have missed a softball like 'Hag's Nook is your meat'?Mr. Joyboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-59553525286059816842013-05-25T03:55:34.901-07:002013-05-25T03:55:34.901-07:00This is mostly interesting as a step in the evolut...This is mostly interesting as a step in the evolution of the paperback. Artwork is starting to creep onto the front cover, but we're still without blurbs or synopsis on the back. The quality of the paper is a bit surprising, considering this was published during the war.<br /><br />There was a very good pitcher for the KC Royals back in the 80s named Dan Quisenberry. He was known as something of an oddball, saying things like, "I found a delivery in my flaw." Died much too young of brain cancer.<br /><br />Frank Gruber on the other hand makes me think of Ed Gruberman from "Boot to the Head" by the Royal Canadian Air Farce.DemetriosXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-692574852908570172013-05-25T02:43:04.382-07:002013-05-25T02:43:04.382-07:00If it weren't for the title of this book, I...If it weren't for the title of this book, I'd swear that Mr. Germanic-Shopkeep-'stache is weirded out not by the clock, but by that creepy, googly-eyed penguin in the corner. I mean that little guy is-- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-PENGUIN!!Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05827682993126698431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-59368993489809165002013-05-24T14:06:54.851-07:002013-05-24T14:06:54.851-07:00Bonita means pretty or nice in Spanish & Portu...Bonita means pretty or nice in Spanish & Portugese. It's also the name of a fish. So, if you're thinking of naming your daughter Bonita, think of how that will be used against her in Jr. High or High School. It's 10:1 that "Bonita smells like dead fish" is what she'll hear throughout her critical teen years.<br /><br />Oh, they'll also probably dig up the old "there are two things in the world that smell like dead fish. One is dead fish.. " joke.Darrylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-23343987581479521342013-05-24T13:38:33.306-07:002013-05-24T13:38:33.306-07:005 minutes work on the internet and I found out the...5 minutes work on the internet and I found out the following: According to the 1940 census, Laura Burns lived at 14642 Bringard Drive, Detroit, MI, with her husband John and daughter Marilyn. She was born on 6 Feb 1909 and stopped hearing clocks talking on 27 Oct 1989. No Burns' live at that address today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-79950864563112606552013-05-24T10:42:35.443-07:002013-05-24T10:42:35.443-07:00I read The Navy Colt by Frank Gruber a couple year...I read The Navy Colt by Frank Gruber a couple years ago and it was pretty OK if you like that vintage. It was on a list of bibliomysteries, but was not. I think the only bilio-ness of that one was the PI and his sidekick hide in a library at one point, and my have posed as door-to-door Encyclopedia salesmen for two sentences. <br /><br />http://www.librarything.com/work/5367280/book/30214015Benjamin L Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00489486832142866020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-13263161487631059162013-05-24T09:56:47.753-07:002013-05-24T09:56:47.753-07:00The only address like that I find in Google Maps i...The only address like that I find in Google Maps is in Detroit. From the looks of the picture of the house, I'm sure it is the same one.D.A. Trapperthttp://danktarn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4660994103025515363.post-82255744186480410212013-05-24T08:50:32.831-07:002013-05-24T08:50:32.831-07:00I once had a math teacher named Quesenberry, but I...I once had a math teacher named Quesenberry, but I don't know her first name...Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14247515387599954817noreply@blogger.com