The Stranger City Caper Quotes

“He said the citizens worship a guy what massacred a dozen men and the cemetery owner ain’t buried nobody in fifty years. I said okay where are we? Rube said son don’t you get the drift? I shook my head. Rube leaned toward me. His voice was hoarse with horror. He said why boy we is in Hell!”
― Ross H. Spencer, The Stranger City Caper

“said Chericola got a ball club that couldn’t whip the Little Sisters of the Poor. I said if the entire town turned out for every game it couldn’t support a hopscotch team. I said you’re on some kind of religious bender and I’m stumbling around like a goddam zombie wondering what’s going on.”
― Ross H. Spencer, The Stranger City Caper

“The most beautiful brunette on the face of Planet Earth stood very close to me. Her dark wavy hair cascaded to her shoulders. Her liquid brown eyes sparkled. Her full lips smiled a wonderfully warm smile. She said hello Purdue. I shrugged. I said hello Brandy.”
― Ross H. Spencer, The Stranger City Caper

“The Gideon Bible was dog-eared. I opened it to its yellow silk marker and saw that Genesis 23:4 had been snipped out.”
― Ross H. Spencer, The Stranger City Caper

“Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight”
― Ross H. Spencer, The Stranger City Caper