The Rap Sheet: Brigands and Beads

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Brigands and Beads

In celebration of this season, Janet Rudolph presents a list of Mardi Gras-related mysteries for your reading delight. UPDATE: Rudolph has also now posted a rundown of Ash Wednesday-related mysteries.

LISTEN UP: “New Orleans Piano Music,” by Kirsten Kendrick and Nick Morrison (KPLU-FM Radio).

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QUOTABLE CRIME

“I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices, and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.”
— James M. Cain, from the preface to Double Indemnity