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I'm starting this on the anniversary of the date the pilgrims set sail.

In the pre-WWII period when Charles has started speaking his mind. He's right and everyone else is wrong. What's sad is that she is going along with him.

Just discovered that I have this in both hardcover and on the Kindle. Didn't know about the copy on Kindle.

Sam Spade as first of the hard-boiled American detectives. He cut the mold, to be followed by the likes of Lew Archer, Marlowe, and including Kinsey Milhone and V. I. Warshawski - they follow the mold - hard-boiled, knowledgeable about their world and witty at the putdown, skating just inside the law Nemesis. Even Agatha Christie got it.

Just finished the chapters on The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises. Are these chapters shorter? Or is it just that these are two of my favorite books?

The author keeps pointing out that no women were on the jury - they weren't allowed on a jury until 1939! He could just point that out once instead of continuing to point it out with each case he discusses.

I was all set to put this down when I noticed that the next murder took place in my home town. I couldn't resist reading on. Actually this is more local politics than murder - town vs. gown! Some things never change. The sophs and frosh used to rush each other, tie people up. Civilized folks stayed inside.