TRX
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I'm reading "The Quiller Memorandum" right now. I know I read it 30 or 40 years ago, but I didn't remember much about it.
The writing is... I guess a literary critic would call it "idiosyncratic", but it was probably broken and weird even by the standards of British writers of the early 1960s. It does make sense, though, once you read around all the strange indirect dialogue.
I'm bringing it up because I just ran into a description of a "Pelmann and Rosenthal" 8mm pistol. I hit Google, and the only hits I found went back to the book. I have no idea why he made it up; there were gun stores and gun magazines in most British towns back then, he could have picked a real gun easily enough.
At least part of the story line of H. Beam Piper's "Police Action" hinged on the main character carrying a 1937 Sharps' bolt action in .235 Ultraspeed-Express...
The writing is... I guess a literary critic would call it "idiosyncratic", but it was probably broken and weird even by the standards of British writers of the early 1960s. It does make sense, though, once you read around all the strange indirect dialogue.
I'm bringing it up because I just ran into a description of a "Pelmann and Rosenthal" 8mm pistol. I hit Google, and the only hits I found went back to the book. I have no idea why he made it up; there were gun stores and gun magazines in most British towns back then, he could have picked a real gun easily enough.
At least part of the story line of H. Beam Piper's "Police Action" hinged on the main character carrying a 1937 Sharps' bolt action in .235 Ultraspeed-Express...