He was just, I thought when I had a word with him, one of those people who preferred breaking into a place to using a key.Derek Raymond, The Devil’s Home on Leave. Just the right book for this grey Saturday.
Where I go, the ghosts go. I go where the evil is.Derek Raymond, The Devil’s Home on Leave. Book 2 of The Factory Series.
He has a range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in.Raymond Chandler, defining the detective, in The Simple Art of Murder (1950). Thanks to Greg Rucka’s Stumptown vol 2, issue 2, for taking me back to this piece by Chandler.
August 21, 2006, Marseilles. Half way through Havana Black on the terrace at Le Petit-Nice Passédat. A trip inspired by Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy. Such a fan of Bitter Lemon Press, even more so in faraway places.
