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The Long Goodbye, The Black Marble, Red Dragon & this (favorite MC crime novels)
Young lady (the little sister) from Manhattan, KS arrives at Marlowe’s office.
Looking for her brother.
To Bay City (SM) boarding house. Ice pick death.
To Van Nuys Hotel. Ice pick death #2. (hotel now a flophouse)
Wild women & dangerous. Organized crime.
Late 40s, good descriptions of Hollywood, movie business.

MC’s top four crime novels:
The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, The Black Marble, Red Marble

p. 1924, EF several visits to India
much more than conflict between Brits/Indians
3 sections: Mosque, Caves, Temple
Mrs Moore - character “in the know” (older lady)
see Peter Burra’s intro (great insights)
very well-polished book
have read Howard’s End & A Room with a View

“….. the painted veil which those who live call Life”. Shelley

The Razor’s Edge, The Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, The Summing Up (read parts of), The Painted Veil (1925). The order in which I have read Maugham. All very good. I have enjoyed Greene, Maugham & Forster. Never read Hardy.

This story begins in Hong Kong. Kitty, Walter & Charlie open the story.

“….. the painted veil which those who live call Life”. Shelley

The Razor’s Edge, The Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, Cakes & Ale, The Summing Up (read parts of), The Painted Veil (1925). The order in which I have read Maugham. All very good. I have enjoyed Greene, Maugham & Forster. Never read Hardy.

This story begins in Hong Kong. Kitty, Walter & Charlie open the story.

“….the painted veil which those who live call Life.”

Of Human Bondage, The Razor’s Edge, The Moon and Sixpence, Cakes & Ale and finally this book (1925). I also have The Summing Up. Well written and crafted books, all. This will close out Maugham for me. Rewarding.

I have enjoyed the Brits, Greene, Maugham, Forster.

Set in Hong Kong (20s). Kitty, Walter, Charlie

P. 1910 in Britain. London “burbs.” The Schlegels, German-Brits, Meg 29, Helen 21, Tippy 16. The more upper class Wilcox clan who reside at Howard’s End (Forster’s boyhood home). Set pre WW I.

P. 1910 in Britain. London “burbs.” The Schlegels, German-Brits, Meg 29, Helen 21, Tippy 16. The more upper class Wilcox clan who reside at Howard’s End (Forster’s boyhood home). Set pre WW I.

P. 1910 in Britain.

Giving this a go. I don’t know after about 40 pages. Hate to quit on a book.

I’m giving this a go. Why? Perhaps because I have read 4 Somerset Maugham books this yr. It’s no grabbing my attn like Maugham or Graham Greene. Going to try & stick it out.

1954, Salina, KS (boys work farm), to NE farm (home), old house, no crops
Emmitt 18, Billy 8, mother left for CA(?), father deceased, TX/CA or NY
Foreclose on farm, E father left $3000 in Studebaker, Nancy likes E
2 boys (18 yr old) show up at farm (trouble), both with issues
E has mature way of thinking/analyzing/quick study of issues.