- Sudarshan Purohit, intoductionIn 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.
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
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)
Labels:
crime,
death,
e-mail,
finance,
Larry Martins,
lawyers,
Quoted Matter,
Togo
Friday, 27 June 2014
Friday, 13 June 2014
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Not an April Fool(?)
Harvard librarians make a point of not going looking for rare volumes bound with human skin.
Labels:
anatomy,
books,
crime,
Harvard,
libraries and librarians
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
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
Labels:
America,
Cambodia,
crime,
Kosal Khiev,
poetry,
Quoted Matter,
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?'
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