Thursday, January 17, 2013

"A No Good Dame"


What a bunch of schlemiels I was thinking. Sitting around playing poker while a good looking dame like me was sitting over here on the couch drinking highballs, smoking Sweet Caporals, and cooling her heels. I guess it was then that I decided I was gonna take them for every penny they were worth, and that included Johnny — 'Cleveland Johnny' Doyle, my so-called fiancé — the big chump.”

A No Good Dame, by "Helen P. Steinmetz" {Horace P. Sternwall} (Acme Books, 1953; one printing only, never republished).


(Scroll down the right-hand side of this page to find a listing of links to the opening passages of many other immortal but oddly out-of-print books by Horace P. Sternwall.)

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