I've just finished The Body In The Library (Agatha Christie/Miss Marple), which is a
perfectly OK book, but especially notable for this, spoken by the grandson (age
12 or thereabouts) of one of the key characters:
"...Do you like detective stories? I do…I read them all. I've got autographs from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H.C. Bailey,..."
"...Do you like detective stories? I do…I read them all. I've got autographs from Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie and Dickson Carr and H.C. Bailey,..."
And I ran
across this, in A Murder Is Announced
(also Agatha Christie/Miss Marple):
Miss
Marple speaking:
"I may have got the term wrong," she murmured. "I am not very clever about Americanisms--and I understand they change very quickly. I got it [the term "fall guy"--DAC] from one of Mr. Dashiell Hammett's stories. (I understand from my nephew Raymond that he is considered at the top of the tree in what is called the 'tough' style of literature.)"
"I may have got the term wrong," she murmured. "I am not very clever about Americanisms--and I understand they change very quickly. I got it [the term "fall guy"--DAC] from one of Mr. Dashiell Hammett's stories. (I understand from my nephew Raymond that he is considered at the top of the tree in what is called the 'tough' style of literature.)"
(I
also loved the parentheses in a spoken comment...how does one "hear"
parentheses?)
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