"Honest to God, you sound just like my kid. Him and his Buck Rogers' disintegrators and his comic books. Honest to God, it's a crime what they give the younger generation to read. Ruin their minds with it. Killing. Corpses. Ah!"This message has been edited. Last edited by: fjp451,
"Honest to God, you sound just like my kid. Him and his Buck Rogers' disintegrators and his comic books. Honest to God, it's a crime what they give the younger generation to read. Ruin their minds with it. Killing. Corpses. Ah!"
OK! Maybe a bit of a stretch. Another clue before a follow-up passage:
A cocktail party downstairs!
14 December 2008, 07:49 PM
Braling II
Ya got me on this one, pard. There are several stories with something going on 'downstairs', but the only one that comes to mind with a 'cocktail party' is "The Homecoming" and that quote isn't from that, I'm sure... I May have to pull a few books down off the shelf and search - unless it's from one of those new-fangled collections that I can't afford!
15 December 2008, 05:09 AM
fjp451
Old-Fangled, actually one of his earliest - 1944. Collected in a 1984. A good detective like you may dust off the right title. More later...
18 December 2008, 06:02 AM
fjp451
A terrifying attic discovery. Whodunit?!
18 December 2008, 08:00 PM
Braling II
Attic or cellar? "Dusting off" and "attic" brings to mind "A Scent of Sarsaparilla"; "terrifying attic discovery" reminds me of "Zero Hour". Maybe I'll find time this weekend to research...
21 December 2008, 09:04 PM
Braling II
Well, I was busier than a tail-gater's brake pedal this weekend (a little commuter humour there) and so did not do the above-mentioned research...
Am I gettin' warm, Butch?
22 December 2008, 06:05 PM
fjp451
OK, Pard!! I'll unwrap the package just a bit more. Shake away:
" - you've got to make it up to me, the way I've been treated. It shouldn't be difficult. I could be Johnny's teacher. That would explain my presence in the house to everyone." -ELLIE