Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Books I've actually finished lately: 60






















In those days [Pathak] earned much less from his own work than from the [James Hadley] Chase translations. Translating a Chase book was easier work, too, since he could do it in three or four days while sitting at his day job in the telephone company.
- Sudarshan Purohit, intoduction

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Fantastic

Attn  Smyth,

I am Barrister.Larry Martins, (legal practitioner/advocates) Lome Togo. West Africa.I would like you to indicate your interest to receive the transfer of US $ 6,million left behind by my late client Mr S. M. Smyth, a national of your country, before the fund gets confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge amount were deposited.I will like you to stand as the next of kin to my late client whose account is presently dormant, for claims. Please contact me at (larrymartins455@yahoo.com) for more clarifications. 
Hon.Larry Martins
(larrymartins455@yahoo.com)

Friday, 27 June 2014

Very sorry

never to have laid eyes on a copy of this.

(Any have decent literary connections in Bangkok?)

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Not an April Fool(?)

Harvard librarians make a point of not going looking for rare volumes bound with human skin.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Headline

Man murders lover despite New Year's resolution
- MSN news

Astounding. (Lack of emphasis mine.)

Monday, 18 June 2012

Pokey poetry

I went to a maximum security level four and ran into some poets who had a poetry class every Wednesday. I felt I had found home.
- Kosal Khiev, poet, in The Times

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Proverbs - in context

In the house of the righteous is much treasure - so wait 'til the righteous is out and you could really clean up.

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Gardeners - question time

It would be an anomaly to find a student of nature addicted to the vices that cast so many dark shadows on our social life; nor do I remember among the sad annals of criminal history, one instance of a naturalist who became a criminal, or of a single gardener who has ever been hanged.
- Shirley 'a man' Hibberd, Rustic Adornments

To which I can only think to ask: 'What about Fred West?'