Wednesday, December 28, 2011

"Princess of the Bowery"


"She had a face that reminded me of my mother's face in the casket at the funeral home: painted, hard, and dead, with just the ghost of a smile; I decided to buy her a drink."

Princess of the Bowery, by Horace P. Sternwall, an Ace paperback original; 1954.

2 comments:

Trish said...

She's also on "A Swell-Looking Girl" by Caldwell...

Dan Leo said...

And, you, Patricia, are the eagle eye!