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This is the part in the book where mega Jane teaches death how to fly. Several times delf aays he couldn't do it, but Vega Jane insists on training him

Rina is obsession with carrying a gun everywhere she goes is brought up again here, when she is allowed to help canvas neighborhoods with her husband.

When candy Sloan talks about some of the actresses that her one of her lovers was bragging about, Spencer asked was she Mala Powers. The joke was that she was an actress in the 50s and that would have made her quite old. She starred in Cyrano de Bergerac

When speaking about California is a crazy and ornate place, Spencer quotes Fitzgerald who called it the last and greatest of all human dreams. California is the end of manifest destiny as there is no further land to explore. We have reached the ocean

I think this is the reason that Susan Silverman and Soenser have a falling out, He tells her later about Candy Sloan and Susan temporarily leaves him. That leads to his involvement with Rita later.

The 70-year-old Secretary of Labor post became a roadblock to the deportation dreams of both Palmer and j Edgar Hoover. I was wondering why the names would and Palmer never surfaced in the 1920 presidential election, and I think this has a lot to do with it

The novel that Spencer was reading during this book was a distant mirror by Barbara tuchman

An extremely rare occurrence happens here as Parker finds out where Rachel Wallace is being held. As a embrace both of them start to cry

The last major public speaking event, and the last of his whirlwind Wilson tour was in Pueblo, Colorado.

Spencer and Susan are visiting London after the enemies are dead. He quotes or paraphrases a line from Richard III, John Gaunts dying words, Oh England, that splendid isle......

It actually took me till this long in the novel before I realized that Catherine was actually the Judas goat. She was the assassin that Spencer spared her life in order that she would rat out to all the other ones

There seems to be a running joke in the series where by Spencer says aha in different situations and even in. book 31 I remember him saying aha and how he hates saying aha. Or how he doesn't think it's fitting for a detective to say that and on and on and on

The Frontier Myth: How European settlers justified conquering the wilderness and Native Americans through violence as a form of moral progress. This is the book that Spencer amuses himself by while staying in a hotel in London. He had down time when he wasn't working on the bombing case. The literary piece was called regeneration through violence by slotkin

Unreachable Relief: Whenever Tantalus bent down to drink the water, it moved away and dried up. Whenever he reached up to grab a piece of fruit, the branches pulled away and rose out of reach.
Spencer mentioned this piece of literature after making a phone call to Susan from Europe 5000 miles away from where she was. He felt like she was close but far away. The word tantalize came from this Greek king.

The lynchings that happened after World war I were absolutely brutal. A woman was hung by her feet burned and the baby was cut out of her stomach and let fall into the ground and the riders stomped the baby to death. Nobody was ever charged

Hanson, the mayor of Seattle, was the face of business as he managed to quell the 1919 riots there that were doing so out of sympathy for the Bolsheviks. Ole Hanson also had ten children, the men named after US Presidents like William Howard Taft Hanson, and Theodore Roosevelt Hanson. Also women were encouraged to go on strike too, so their striking husbands would give up on their strikes.

Wilson was actually more popular in Europe and he was in the United States after the end of World War I

Spencer's former tenant reminded him of Madam Sosotris: is a famous clairvoyant and tarot card reader featured in T.S. Eliot's 1922 modernist poem, The Waste Land. Often sarcastically dubbed "the wisest woman in Europe" despite having a bad cold, she provides a grim reading filled with fragmented, surreal prophecies

Susan was playing this influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for pioneering "progressive jazz", shifting the big band tradition away from dance music into complex, symphonic concert performances featuring bold brass ensembles, thick dissonances, and experimental arrangement Stan Kenton

When Soencer takes Pat Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James's career. The Golde

Spencer thought the bartender looked like
Gilbert Roland (born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso) was a Mexican-born American actor whose prolific career spanned seven decades, from the 1920s through the 1980s. He was best known for his dashing "Latin Lover" roles in silent films, playing the heroic Cisco Kid, and earning Golden Globe nominations

I'm sure I knew this at one time, but the Boston Red Sox were in the 1946 World series against the cardinals. They lost four games to three

Spenser mocks Dr Croft by saying the briefcase he bought was full of KKs records: Kay Kyser (1905–1985) was an immensely popular American bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s. Known as "The Ol' Professor," he hosted the hit NBC radio show Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, which blended swing music, comedy, and a quiz-show format

As Spenser placed his hand on S Silvermans leg he said he thought he would quote this man:
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a radical 19th-century French poet, art critic, and translator. Widely regarded as the father of modern poetry, he is best known for his provocative and influential collection Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), which sought to extract beauty from decay.

Spencer references this Freedman statue in Park square. However since that time it has been removed because it was considered to be racist. It was simply a statue of a black man kneeling at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. The sculptor was named Thomas ball. At the very end of his statement Parker says balls.

One of the aliases at Spencer used during this novel was bulldog turner. Clyde bulldog Turner was a two-way player for the bears in the 40s and 50s. He was considered one of the toughest players ever

It's interesting to see how the character Spencer develops. Back in the early novels, he definitely was a horndog. And went after women and much the same way Stone Barrington does

Lieutenant quirk what were you doing in the building Spencer? Spencer while I was out selling girl scout cookies and I remembered our leader told us to be very persistent

The union headed most by the American business owners was definitely the iww or the wobblies

It's funny and kind of ironic but ponyboy received his copy of gone with the wind right around the same time I did. I remember being very excited to start reading it when I was about 13 or 14