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The Man From Esperanto by Paul D. Brazill
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He Would Say That, Wouldn't He?
19 comments:
Whoa! Love that ending! And I like how you worked in the wedding cake in the road. Probably one of the most natural references that we'll see in that particular flash competition.
"Yes, but if a butterfly beats it’s wings in the forest a one handed man claps and a tree falls down."
Brilliant that, but the story was even better!
Slick stuff. I love the ending too.
Ah, the pint of no return. Spot on story.
Thanks very much. Finsihed it just before midnight last night!
Great dialogue between some interesting characters. Killer ending.
Yep, he was truly f**cked in more ways than one. That was a fun ride, Paul!
Love it, Brazil! They only keep getting better!
Cheers all -just another attempt to bridge the gap betwen noir and 'Carry On ' films...
Is that carry on? Or maybe carrion, which is waht the hapless hero may soon become. Loved this story.
You have about a dozen great lines worth stealing in this. Terrific job.
Nice writing--a lot of wallop in a short space.
Wallop! That's the word I was looking for.
A pizza oven. Man, that's just...I wanna say 'cold,' but that's NOT the right word.
Thanks very much all. Corey - there was a case a couple of years ago of a Polish man who tried to hide from the police in a pizza oven...
very choice tale paul..well told and super dialogue with a cast of flotsam and jetsam that you did proud
like the updated look of your site too..
Cheers MS. I'll be checking out Trans Siberian soonest.
Slick 'n' sick. As delicious as a piping hot pizza with what we call pepperoni in America. And decidedly that most exuberant of the several crime books and stories set among the shady world of language schools.
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Thanks Peter. Can you suggest some other 'language school' books? It is a dark and dingy world!
Ruth Dudley Edwards' The English School of Murder and Dirty Tricks by Michael Dibdin come to mind. I also once made a blog post that included Peter Lovesey's The Summons in that number, but I don't remember the language-school aspects of that book.
A language school seems a fine setting for crime, doesn't it, with teachers about whom not many questions are asked, operators ready to make a quick buck, and students with any number of motives, including the desire to gain residency in the host country. Those writers believe as Conan Doyle did.
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"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
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