Showing posts with label Piri Thomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piri Thomas. Show all posts

Monday, November 16, 2009

57 Books from the University Book Sale: Book 14


Title
: Down These Mean Streets (Signet 3471, 1968)
Author: Piri Thomas
Cover artist: photo

Yours for: Whatever


  • A stirring tale of laundry!
  • I got this only for the title, which comes from Raymond Chandler's "Simple Art of Murder": "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean ..."
  • "Attempted Killer!?" As Sideshow Bob once famously said about "attempted murder": "Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?"

Page 123:

I tried to dig myself.

~RP

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