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Title: Dates with Death
Series: ———-
Editor: Alfred Hitchcock
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Crime Fiction
Pages: 210
Words: 76K
Due to everything going on when I read this (see my “Personal” section of the January ‘23 Roundup and Ramblings post), I simply don’t remember a thing. So I’m including the table of contents and calling it good. The rating is based off of my previous Hitchcock reads and the fact that I can remember nothing bad about any of the stories.
TOC
THE DUSTY DRAWER – Harry Muheim
DRUM BEAT – Stephen Marlowe
THE USES OF INTELLIGENCE – Matthew Gant
THE QUEEN’S JEWEL – James Holding
THAT TOUCH OF GENIUS – William Sambrot
THE CROOKED ROAD – Alex Gaby
THE AMATEUR – Michael Gilbert
THE SINGING PIGEON – Ross Macdonald
JUSTICE MAGNIFIQUE – Lawrence Treat
GREEDY NIGHT – E. C. Bentley
A HUMANIST – Romain Gary
THE OBLONG ROOM – Edward D. Hoch
DEAD MAN’S STORY – Howard Rigsby
THE JANISSARIES OF EMILION – Basil Copper
CHINOISERIE – Helen McCloy
★★★✬☆
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Once Fraggle gets out of the ruins, I’m sure she’ll be around 🙂
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She seems to be lost in them this morning. We might have to go over there to look for her.
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I’m back from the ruins!
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Thankfully, we’ve got a scottish terrier, who I assume are really good at tracking.
Eddie, EDDIE, where are you!?!?
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We would have an all-star search-and-rescue team assembled. You have your surveying skills and the terrier. I’ve got my knowledge of the history of the place (mostly cribbed from Shakespeare and Fraggle’s notes), and Eddie knows all about disappearing in public spaces for unmentionable purposes. If she hadn’t made it back we’d be in good shape to find her.
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What we really need is super rings that we can clink together and magically transform into our superpowered WP4 forms. Or at least a secret code word…
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Under normal situations this would work, but if we were looking for a missing WP4 member then we wouldn’t be able to clink all the rings together and form a giant robot. Plot curve. Plus, if we had the dog helping us search through ruins it would make the whole adventure very Tintin, which would be fun.
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I’m thinking the dog needs to be a robot dog. That way, in the surprise twist, it can turn out to be the robot that created the powers of the WP4 10,000 years in the future.
(and I won’t have to deal with hair and shedding and stuff)
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A non-shedding robot dog is OK, but he can’t have laser eyes or other powers that would make everything too easy for the rest of us.
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What counts as a “power”? I think we need to define our terms before hammering out the details.
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I was just thinking the sort of thing a dog normally can’t do. Like fly. But maybe he can be less robot and more genetically engineered. I like real dogs.
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If you want to take care of it, it’s all yours. No one can ever accuse me of being a dog lover 🙂
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How can you have a dog and not be a dog lover????
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I don’t have a dog. I was talking about Eddie. He’s the scottish terrier.
Which is why I want a robot dog because I don’t trust Eddie’s nose…
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Argh. That’s so disappointing. I thought you had a real Scottish terrier that you dressed up in a tam and everything. That’s one of the few small dogs I can stand.
Eddie said something yesterday about being into dogging, but that’s probably not going to be a big help.
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While Mrs B would love it if we had a dog, condo bylaws (thankfully) make it a non-issue at the moment 😀
yeah, once I looked that whole thing up, I was scarred. Not going to be much help, even if it’s his super power
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I can’t even remember reading this post, so probably for the best if I say nothing about it.
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That’s never stopped you before, jus’ sayin’….
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How was JANISSARIES OF EMILION ?
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It would have fit in perfectly with your Nightmare on Elm Street thingy yesterday.
It’s about a guy who dreams and it’s real and in the end he dies in the dream and in real life. Creepy, but not scary.
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Another no comment comment as requested! 👸
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Interesting how it not being memorable gives it a passing grade. 😛
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January was so bad. Anything that didn’t make it harder was automatically a good thing.
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